Stacy Westfall's Retirement of 'Live Like You Were Dyin' 

RIP Roxy you will be missed but not forgotten!!

What a love relationship between her and and her horse. Trust. Rare and beautiful. God bless both.

This video brought me to tears to see how like one both horse and rider are and really enjoying each other’s company.

This is a wonderful show of natural horsemanship Thanks for sharing what a beautfiful rider and horse

Little did we know that Stacey never retired and made one amazing comeback in upstate NY ! She also was on the Ellen DeGeneres show ! Still amazing and she still rides ! Thanks for sharing this with the world !

The beauty of a true partnership....Roxy and Stacy....too cool for words!

beautiful beautiful beautiful shes simply amazing , ive seen her on other horses as well she knows what shes doing and all those who criticize well get over the jalousie just be course you cant do the same dosent mean you have to be hateful and jealous keep it going Stacy your a inspiration for many many people

Absolutely Love this ,!!!

Stacy and Roxy are my idols! I

Rest in peace Roxy you lived like you were dying you had a great life you will be missed greatly

I am so glad you posted this--you did a great job filming. The whole program so so amazing--I was there Saturday night, too. My husband and I drove up from Ashland, KY just for this event with our daughter-in-law. Thanks for helping preserve the memory. And thanks, Stacy and Roxy!

Magnífico......

R.i.p Roxy miss you!

Truly Beautiful - Thanks so much....I watch this at times when I need some quiet peaceful time.....GOD Bless Both of YOU!

I don't know why ppl would put this video down. I got her 2006 video in an e-mail and sat and cried. To watch anyone with that must love and trust for an animal is amazing! When I showed it to my husband, he started crying the tough guy he is. The bond is so strong and the trust and even other videos I've watched, it's amazing.

Never gets old. The Congress ride or her dad was the best anyone has ever seen. ever

I was there...how lucky am I?! Absolutely beautiful...brings tears every time I watch it.

Thank you for sharing this. Awesome and inspiring!

wow.. amazing

Its nice that some people can appreciate this WONDERFUL video for what it really is, the LOVE and CONNECTION between This AMAZING gal and her HORSE. Come on people quit being downers. Obviously Stacy Westfall knows what shes doing, LOOK AT HER OTHER COMPETIONS. Her horsemanship is BREATH-TAKING! Not a fake.

I showed the video to my neighbor, who stuck her nose in the air and said, "that's all fake anyway. I've seen people use a string run through the horse's mouth to control them". I told her that the only thing fake around here was her. Stacy Westfall is THE best in my opinion. Anyone ever tells me she's fake again- I'm shootin' first and askin' questions later.

loved this.. I saw them in the MA Pfizer Fantasia show in '08.. Amazing!

my eyes filled with love....amazing partnership

rip roxy. crying as i watch

Your so right. THANKS !!!!

oh yeah!

u the guru. WOW!!! Fantastic teach me.

whoo! i was there. it was AMAZING!!! :D

It sure was an amazing show!! Oh, and sorry about Robbie...what a tremendous tribute vid you have.

Wow.. I can't say more than this.

I started doing "free riding" on my Arab before I gave up riding. The feeling of running on the horse with absolutely nothing attached is amazing

makes me wanna cry :'(

me too lol it was the best show ever

I do natural horsemanship and ride bareback and bridless most of the time, I think it is a amzing way to bond with your horse. Stacy is amazing and I really look up to her.

i miss her :( this mad me cry :( like stacey sad dont vry because its over smile becuase it happend ! r.i.p roxy

Yes, we'll be at breyerfest! We can't wait to see Roxy (maybe for the last time) become a Breyer Horse!! What an awesome time!

RIP Roxy

Wow is all I can say !!!!!

Yes

you truly have to have a bond with the horse to do this and you have to trust the horse and the horse has to trust you.

yes

she won the 2011 freestyle

she's not retiring! just retiring that routine

ppl are so ignorant yes she uses spurs without tack a horse is more likely to not give in to sublte clues spurs just help keep the horse looking for them she is not digging them in I thought she was doing an awesome job balancing without her heels. she is an amazing rider and some ppl on this comment board need to realize almost anyone with basic riding skills can rein when they have the right horse like someone said ellen did, it takes someone great to train a horse to do this without tack

Very nice!!!! I like That !!!:P

Love that horse and i miss they

geil geil geil einfach nur absolut geil :P:P

WOW

Stacy was amazing. It sounded like the PA guy said that this was the last time THIS WEEKEND that she would be performing the routine. I don't think she's completely done with it, but it could;ve just been the guy's phrasing. As for the spur thing, I don't use them...ever, but I understand that some riders prefer them to hard kicks or crops. It depends on the horse and you need to teach yourself to control the amount of pressure. Stacy perfects that. You can see she never uses them constantly.

i was there to see this. it was so cool! i wanna do this. i have a 5 year old started in reining and already obeys leg commands so we are going to try

Roxy's like, yah no. not gonna run with you. kind of want to stay in the spot light longer,thanks XD

The little tongue thing was adorable

Stacy is not deaf nor is she non verbal she actually is very well spoken and has no problem hearing....it drives me crazy when people try to act like they know someone better than everyone else and start making things up....clearly Gracye Burchfield had your cousin really met Stacy this knowledge would have been know to him.....

That's why she won the National Reining Horse Association Freestyle reining competition in '03, this AQHA Congress competition in '06, and why she won the 2006 Road to the Horse colt starting competition: because she can't do proper spins, sucks at riding in front of crowds, teaches horses to be resistant to cues, and digs her spurs into the sides of her horse. Riiiiiiiiight.

If you actually pay attention, Roxy is licking and chewing meaning she has full trust in Stacy. Her ears are back because she is listening for the slightest signal Stacy might give. Her tail is swishing because she is questioning Stacy yet concentrating hard. Spurs give more precise signals. Stacy is not harming Roxy in any way shape or form.

i want a glossy roxy so BADLY D8 i hope i get her 4 christmas & i didnt kno that stacey was famous cuz i was @ this horse show & she was doin these trix & then few days after that she was on ellen?! no way! & im a big fan of her 2 & im a breyer collector also 8D

perhaps disappointed was the wrong word. i think i was more so shocked. i guess i just didn't expect it. i still think she is an incredible person and rider!

Oh, I know, and none to you, either! But actually, the only times Roxy wasn't licking and chewing ever, was when she was concentraiting. If you watch a few more videos, Roxy will lick and chew when she is doing slower circles, but when she goes faster, or when she's spinning she stops licking, which is a really good thing!

I think being deaf would actually have a great calming impact on the horse, as there would be a peacefullness that other trainers/riders cannot offer & as any horse peeps know, horses respond greatly to calmness

and unknowledgable people such as yourself call others names. how very mature of you.

I see pictures and stuff about Stacy in Young rider magazine!! :)

this is ONE amazing rider and YES you can ride reigning patterns without bridals for those that HAVE never been to the congress this is a BIG deal!!

i could possibly i said possibly people do this with my old horse ace but hes sadly gone :'( r.i.p. but if i tried to do that with my new horse breezN im screwd lmao but this was truley an amazing video r.i.p. roxy

so was I:D actually it was the saturday show:)

that kind of bond takes A LOT of riding etc

what i ride that way to the market on a main road about 3miles and my horse did good I would stand on her back when i got there. No bridle halter saddle nothing. I just am amazed. lol

Stacey I am amazed at the achievments you have made, hats off to you! I started to learn how to ride in 03 and play polocrose at the same time so from my point of view i think razrbluntfarie has not achieved what you HAVE! It saddens me to see someone who knows what is possible can watch this footage and speak ill of it, to me that is just ignorant.razrbluntfaerie you should be ashamed when will you growe up.

That horse was not happy, watch how active it's tail is. And no its not because of the flies, you can tell if you know how to read a horse. Something was happening during this show that that horse didn't like. I know it's not what Stacy is doing because I've watched her other videos and Roxy(the horse) didn't have that active tail, but she did have it going full blast this time

horsehaulinlnc- she is riding bareback and bridless thats why its so special

@lars862003. I agree wholeheartedly ........if you know horses it's a no brainer.

@wph1138 She's also riding bridleless and compeating in a ring reining.

some people actually look at the technicality of a ride rather than the fact that she did it for her father. my horse is far from dead broke, its the simple fact that i ride her correctly and know what i am asking for and when. i would have not pointed that out if not for people saying i couldnt do it. simply a comparison ;)

It's "Live like you were dying" by Tim Mcgraw.

Certain horses need different things than others. Stacy is a proffetional, and knew what was best for Roxy. Some horses just can't be weaned of certain things, and habbits. Spurs do not cause pain to horses, they are tools used to reinforce a command for horses that are a little harder on their sides. They are a tool, just like bridles, saddles, and crops. It was made illegal to use harmful spurs, the big sharp ones. If this caused any harm, I'm sure all spurs would be illegal by now.

Stop fighting! :)

haha, it's alright! If a horse is in pain, it will for sure let you know, and I mean LET you know, as in buck, kick, or bolt to get away from the pain. If you compare the way Roxy is acting to how your horse normally does, you'll find that this is 100% normal for a horse.

I can't see where the name calling came into it but hey i just watched a clip that i can only presume is your equivellant and ah well i'm stunned. And at no time did i claime to be knowledgable. but hey it's your show good luck.

she just totally took martha joseys spot in my hero book :)

hi there, (I'm sorry if this is rude, I'm really not trying to be mean or snobby, please don't take this in the wrong way) but when Roxy does the sliding stop is from Stacy's voice, she simply says "woah" and leans back. You are very right about everything that Roxy was listening to Stacy's legs but I just thought you might like to know the stop was mostly from Stacy's weight changing and her voice. :) I'm sorry if this is rude, I'm not trying to sound that way.

My mare does the same thing when i ask for a lead change.Swishes her tail.Its just the way she is.She also stretches her neck out in a spin and her ears go back.I dont wear spurs.Spurs are only as painful as you make them.Stacey knows whats she's doing.To all the nansayers.I say better to have been a has been than a never was.So unless you can do what she has done just keep youre mouth closed and opinions to youreself.

Du kannst Dir Deine Krise sparen. Sporen ins arme Pferd reinrammen, ist hier nicht zu sehen. Sie benutzt auch kein Gebiss, an dem sie zerren könnte. Irgendwie muss das Pferd ja darüber informiert werden, was die Reiterin von ihm möchte. Darum benutzt sie die Sporen, um dem Pferd feine, differenzierte Hilfen zu geben. Schau Dir auch genau an, wie hoch konzentriert das Pferd arbeitet, um keine feine Hilfe zu verpassen.

@ princesslove920 Stacy uses her feet for cues when she shakes them faster foxy will go faster,but if she stops them than roxy will stop as well as she can. Her ears are concentrating on her feet.

Has Roxy had any foals? Would be cool to see some little Roxy's running around!!

its all just a matter of opinion and knowing stuff ;)

There is nothing fake here. Have seen decorated strings around horses necks before. And assure you there is no string,she is holding on to the mane-period. Loved the shoot first ask questions later. R.I.P. Roxy and foal. What a horrible loss.

Superbe qu'est ce que j'aimerais savoir arriver à ca avec mon loulou

I don't think that Roxy had her ears pinned. When spinning, a horse usually will streach out its head, and to me it looks like her ears are turned back to listen to Stacy's cues in spinning, and it just looks that way. My horse swishes her tail in exciting environments, so maybe that's just a happit that Roxy had, like my mare.

Actually, I do watch Rick Gore. I don't follow him and eat, breath, and sleep his stuff. But lots of his videos are very true. I do know that when a horse is swishing its tail its in discomfort, etc. But just because they swish their tail AUTOMATICALLY means that they are in discomfort, etc. But believe me I don't like spurs either. Never have, never will.

I had heard that Roxy had gotten cast in her stall.

ok i have several videos. and only one of the horses is mine. with out tack you still have the same rider and the same horse that is still trained the same way. the only thing that is harder is conquering the balance factor.

I need help, i wana get this song! this song makes half the show cauz its always the same and now it seems to be the stacy's song. does everybody know its name?

just becuase she wears spurs is nothing everyone wears spurs there not that bad ! stacey is an amazing girl and the one thing she wears spurs and your " disapointed ' ! ........ wow !

Como faz isso sem rédia

Tell me about that song that is playing this? Thanks

Stacy had told us that she was invited to China for the Olympics the same day we met her last April. Has anyone seen her yet? It would've been an exhibition. Did she even go? Limeslush13

How old is Roxy?

If anyone read about Stacy she was deaf at one point in her life

also A LOT of horses are trained by using legs only now...i showed horses forever and KNOW this isnt FAKE some of you hating on stacy need to go to the quarter horse congress and actually WATCH they REMOVE the bridal before she goes in and they DO have a bridaless class for this IF they have a string or anything they CAN and WILL be DQed

well he must be mistaken as Stacy can talk very well and hear.

i havent had the opportunity to do that but i have had the opportunity to observe my trainer doing it on several occasions. its funny that you say i am too full of myself to learn, im really not. i think you are mistaking being critical with being full of myself, i know whats right and whats not and how to make it better. maybe you do too, but whats so wrong about picking something apart that you know a good deal about? nothing!