Brady

Quarterhorse, gelding born 2003.

Tender Reply aka "Brady" is one of those horses you love one day, and just want to tie to the railroadtracks the next! We´ve been hangin out since he was two and it´s been "a one step forward, two steps back" deal from the start. He´s pretty heavy linebred on Skippers´King, in manys opinion the best son of the great Wiescamp legend Skipper W. He goes back 4 times to "the king" and one time to his full sister Skipperette. He´s a powerful horse with a lot of grit and I´m pretty sure I could run him through a brick wall if I asked him to (It has crossed my mind some day´s...)

He relies more on his power than on athletisism and style but shows flashes of that too at times. He´s got a studs mind and temperament, though he was gelded at three. When you work cows on him he shows real interest and some ability, but as for the reinwork...
Brady on a cow
To be fair though I think we kinda rub eachother the wrong way, this is a horse that really tries my patiens and I know alot of times when we have our meltdowns, it´s on me as much as him. On his good day´s he´s a great, great horse with a big heart and serious try, the bad ones?...see above about the traintracks...

Still, if I look back at our years together we´ve come pretty far considering the limited time, and lack of arenas, cows and modern training aids at our disposal. In our part of the world the ground is either frozen or covered with snow 5 months of the year, so we do our training out in the pastures or the little schooling pen we´ve got set up. He´s in the two-rein and doing decent. We go back and forth though between bosal, snaffle and the two-rein as he stops paying attention if I keep him in the same rig for too long.

Anyway, the few times we´ve been on the road he´s been excellent and performed admirably. We showed in a Herdwork schooling class for the first time ever a couple of weeks ago and he did really, really good. So the goal for 2010 is to show him in a regular cowhorse class and take it from there...