Two More Great Rocky Mountain Horses at Whispering Oaks

Anns Mountain Treasure is now under saddle. She is coming along and is pretty impressive to have been under saddle for only a short time. Look for her in the UMH show circuit this year.

Venture's Golden Satin

Watch Venture's Golden Satin with youth rider on board. Now owned by Whispering Oaks Farm Taylorsville, KY.

The Cloth Girls

The top photo is WOF Dock's Velvet and the second photo is Venture's Golden Satin. Both of the Cloth girls are veterans of the show ring and the trail. Velvet came home to the farm last fall and made her debut trail riding shortly after.I was riding along the dirt road going to the rear of the farm and I walked up a covey of quail. If you have ever been out in the open and walked up a covey of quail it will about stop your heart. They will let you walk right up on them and the covey will all ascend into the air with a very loud flutter of wings. I used to deer hunt and was constantly walking up upon them. I was trying to sneak through the woods and when they flew up it always startled me.

Not Velvet, she hardly paid any attention to the quail despite the loud flutter of quail wings coming from beneath her feet. Riding on another mile and we began to see deer in the woods. This gentle bay mare hardly paid any attention to the running deer and white tails flying through the woods.

For those of you who do not ride a horse this is a view from on top of Velvet. She and I were riding through the woods on day and I got a text message from my granddaughter Leigh. She had asked me what I was doing so I took this picture from atop Velvet. It is Velvet and Erica the lab that lives here. After I took the picture with my cell phone I sent it to Leigh. I much prefer voice communication, but, now days texting is so popular that phones are designed for texting.

Cell phones are becoming so complex. You can pretty much have a computer in your pocket now days. We have so much technology at our disposal for more instant communication but we are becoming a people who have forgotten how to communicate with each other. You and I probably know that people text each other many times because it does not involve a formal conversation. We can say a few words without being in a long conversation. We say what we need to say and we are done.


I like to communicate with the Cloth girls. With horses we are training them every time we interact with them. The training can be good or it can be bad training. Velvet likes lower her head to put her face in between my hands when I am handling her. She is communicating with me and I communicate back to her.

When I start to the barn Satin finds me and watches me every step until I go into the barn. Many times she walks over to the fence and follows me along the fence. She is communicating with me. Lately when we are finished feeding and put the horses out, Satin will not leave the gate at the back of the barn. She walks up and stands there even after all the other horses are gone back down in the field. She is saying "I thought you loved me. I thought you would leave me in the barn where I would be warm and have hay to eat all by myself."

I suppose God wants us to be that way with Him. He wants us to want to be where He is. Do you communicate with The Heavenly Father? Try talking to Him today. He always has time to listen if you have time to pray.

Be Blessed

Bob