Some of you know who Diggers Ginny is. For those that don’t, she is a 17 year old cow horse bred sorrel Quarter Horse mare. She has been shown in reining a number of years in the past. The owner, one of my clients, plans to show her at the NRHA Green Rookie level in 2015.

We have had a large herd of elk living around our place for the past week or ten days. A few days ago the herd was moving through the same pasture that Diggers Ginny and my two year old, Levi, were turned out in. It was the time of day they would normally start heading back to the corrals for the night.

I had just finished teaching a lesson to two students and we were unsaddling at the tack barn. I was taking a moment to watch the herd move when I saw them split with elk running left and right. Here comes Diggers Ginny from the south west corner of this pasture, galloping right between the elk, running back to the corrals. She watched for Levi for about ten minutes. When he didn’t follow her on his own, she figured out a way to get around the elk to the north. She galloped around them, ran back to Levi, rounded him up and they came galloping around the last stragglers to the north. They left some very surprised elk in their wake.

I opened the gate to let them in for grain. Diggers Ginny had a proud look in her eye knowing she had accomplished a job well done.