3/2005: Frost is a sweetheart, smart as a whip and somewhat stubborn. I absolutely adore this bloodline because of their incredible intelligence and how easy it is to train them. The only 'down side' of Frost's intelligence is that he WILL learn what you are teaching him. No matter whether you meant to teach it to him or not. It makes training a challenge as the trainer has to stay ahead of the horse, but once trained....... there are simply no horses that I enjoy training or riding that the horses out of Frost's dam.

Fall 2003: Normally at this age, I would repeat the 'not much happening' phrase since Frost won't be old enough to train until the spring. But Frost is a little..... different. I lost a filly in the fall '03 to some bad grain. Needless to say, I was a little overly....................... watchful after that. Frost got just enough colic that he was laying down a lot. No rolling, not down on his side, but down. I went to check to make sure that he was still alright so many times that he stopped getting to his feet whenever I went out in the field with him. I remember a gelding that I trained that was exceedingly sensitive to any lateral movement (his rider's) so I decided that it was an opportune time to 'desensitize' Frost. I 'mounted' and sat (with both feet on the ground) on Frost. He looked embarassed but simply refused to leap to his feet for the millionth time that day. Time for the next stage of training, I touched poll, dock, everywhere on his sides, pulled his face around so I could mess with his face, and finally flapped my arms (thank heavens the neighbors weren't home). As my 'training' progressed, Frost went from looking embarassed to looking humiliated. And you KNOW his 3 buddies in the field HAD to come stand around us to see what was going on. When Roah was lieing down near him a few days later, I repeated the same procedure with Frost lieing nearby. Frost became jealous and contorted himself - without standing up - so that he could put his head in my lap for face petting. I think he is going to be fairly easy to start under saddle. ;-)