Lexis is filling out and looking gorgeous!  This has been a big year for her.  We started her under saddle , and then took her to Anna Stein for a month of exposing her to new things and learning to go forward.  She was awesome and came home ready to see the world.  I had a bucket list of going to Sunset Horse Park, going to a beach, a forest and up a mountain.  We managed to do it all , mostly in August and September.  Lexi also participated in Day Camps and was a star in the Natural Horsemanship classes.  She is so smart !
I have done all of her training in a rope halter to this point.  
I'm looking forward to next  year as she approaches 5 yrs. 

Lexi is growing and developing nicely.  She has a very long , elastic stride and is showing us she will have quite an impressive jump.  Lexi loves attention, and is always very engaged in her training sessions. I have grown to know her as a "left brain extrovert/introvert".  She has double whorls on her forhead which may indicate two sides to her personality.  Her tendancy is to be a little mouthy, very careful and studious in new situatuions, and has the "what's in it for me" MO.  She is accepting me on her back, and after being reprimanded for trying to bite my feet, she is a very willing student.  My goal as of now is to just let her get used to me on her bareback, and stop and steer in a halter and rope.  So far so good!

Lexi is growing slowly but surely.   She has filled out in the past year in her body quite a bit.  We are still quite pleased with her beautiful gaits, incredible athleticism and character.  Left brain extrovert she is!

Lexi has settled in to the routine here at TMF nicely.  She is starting to grow out of Calypso's blankets and has grown a full inch  in a month.
She is making new friends and gets to watch activities all day long , always having her own "lesson" once a day .
She is very curious, careful but brave, and very aware of where she puts her feet.  She reminds me of a cat in her movement. 

Lexi has been learning how to coordinate her feet by turning on the forehand, turning on the hindquarters, and moving sideways.  She is learning to go over poles on the ground both forewards and backwards. 
Sometimes it seems like her feet are REALLY far from her brain.  It's really comical when her front feet cross and her legs get stuck that way for a moment.  I will have to get a picture of that some day. 

She had her feet trimmed by our farrier Harvey Henry last week , and when he was done he stood up and smiled and said "she has GREAT feet"!

Here are some great pictures of Lexi in "school"

Born April 7, 2012
Lexi was bred and foaled by Dan and Diana Thornton of Surprise Arizona. 
Her mother , Phanny , an Oldenburg , has produced a number of elite foals.
Phanny suffered a broken leg when Lexi was just 4 1/2 mo old, and had to be euthanized. 
The name Last Legacy refers to Lexi being Phanny's last baby.

Our daughter, Michelle (Huizenga) Guglielmo, rode Phanny one summer, and had a special  rapport with her. 
Now, years later, Michelle has become a well established trainer and  assistant to Olympic show jumping champion, Chris Kappler, at the infamous Hunterdon, in Pittstown New Jersey. 
We feel it is fitting for Phanny's last baby to become possibly the horse of a lifetime for Michelle. 
We will post updates on Lexi's progress as she grows up.