Kicking Up the Heels!

Bobbie at the office today told me, the horse truck driver of last summer, an amusing story of her son's weekend antics. The family had spent the weekend at the ranch checking out the horses and getting rides in the woods. During the evening the young man had begun to run about the lodge kicking up his heels as high as possible. Apparently the young man had gotton some lessons from Grandpa about prize winning Belgians. One criterion judges look for is the height the horses "kick up their heels' as they run. So important is that standard that weighted shoes are applied to the horses hooves so the extra weight trains them to be "kicking up their hooves"!