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A Good Horse + Good Training Methods = FUN

Trainer Wes Licht introduces Ranger to COWS!  Summer, 2008.
Trainer Wes Licht introduces Ranger to COWS! Summer, 2008.

Here are videos that show some of my training with Ranger, a Morab Gelding whose  recognized daddy is Windmere Royal Topaz.  In this photo he’s being ridden by my recognized daddy, trainer Wes Licht.   Three years ago I trained Ranger to ...

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Rowdy, the Miniature Wonderhorse

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Why is Rowdy a “Wonderhorse?”

Rowdy knows how to bow, lie down, and sit up like a dog.  He stands tall on things and likes to improvise, making up his own new tricks.  He loves going jogging with Sara, and stays right next to her.  When Sara’s large horse “Rainy” was supposed to give a painting demo last year but was falling asleep and not in the artistic mood, Rowdy begged to ...

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Opening Reception at Cafe Zoma and Absolutely Art

dsc09302dsc09306dsc09308The show “Paintings Inspired by Nature and Our Animal Friends” featuring the paintings of Jaroslava Sobiskova and Sara Licht is opening at Cafe Zoma this Friday, July 10th from 5-9pm.

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Next door at Absolutely Art you can also see the work of Mary Fiore ...

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Stacey Westfall’s Clover-leaf Cones Pattern

Rainy likes to pick up the cones...When I met Stacey Westfall last year at the Midwest Horse Fair, she told me that her most valuable exercise was the clover-leaf cones pattern, and she explained it to me.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RptQ0SlCvoY[/youtube]  I began using it and have found it valuable on many levels.  I use the repetition of the same directional turns to teach green horses to move away ...

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Art Masterpiece made by kids

On a warm Spring day, two of my friends, ages 8 and 5, made this free-standing painting with materials I found at the Restore center located in Madison.

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The materials I gathered from Restore which inspired this project were 4 panels of wood that had probably been shelves, sized 1′x4′, and 3 packs of heahinges, each pack containing a pair.

Here is the other side of the painting.  Both boys worked together ...

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Horse Time with Rowdy

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Your child and their friends can pet Rowdy, groom him, decorate his mane and tail, practice leading, and learn the basics about caring for a horse. Rowdy will demonstrate how he wears his miniature harness, puts on a bridle, ...

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Back in Wisconsin and ready to be of service!

irisI returned from a busy winter of  training Trakehners in Florida a few days ago, and am getting things lined up for this coming season of horse training and art in Wisconsin.  Updates coming, and more educational clips to help with specific training questions as well.

If you have questions about my methods for training a horse to drive, safe methods to train a horse to ride, trick training,  ground manners, ...

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New Paintings

To see more of these and some other artwork from the same time period, select the October 2008 in the archives column (right hand side of the screen -> ->  )

Or for ease in scrolling back through the archives to see older posts and artwork, visit www.saralicht111.blogspot.com

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More New Paintings

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Van Gogh Mural at Vernon Creek Gallery of Art – Completed!




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