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SF and Tanga. Tough times taking care of your parents. Wishing you strength and all. I love to hear of the small and big successes everyone is sharing about their riding. Kimba seems to be kicking into gear in terms of better jump on her canter and for that matter better connection. Could the two be...

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Do you think I should keep this music? I liked parts of the music but it seemed to take a while to get exciting enough to enhance your ride. About what it might take to score higher. I am not judge and my opinion may not be worth salt, but perhaps if she appeared to sit a bit more and step under he...

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Im going to make more concrete goals. 1. Show Kimba twice rated shows second level. Im working on developing her canter to this goal. Show Pauletta schooling show at training level. Also working on easier canter transirions less anxiety more relaxed canter. Do NOT gain weight. Tone up and tighten sk...

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I am in awe of you who achieved so many of your goals. I This close out may really be an end. A student of mine did a PPE on Saiph I had tentatively agreed to sell her because she would rather step down than up, competitively. I was really complacent because no 15 year old foundered insulin resistan...

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Mostly because all of you are out showing and doing and i am not, The heat is a good time to talk about one of my favorite sayings. If you act like you have all day, it takes 10 minutes, if you act like you have ten minutes it will take all day. The heat is fabulous, it reminds us not to rush. It re...

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Heddy, oh my that's a lot. Jingles. SF, super dooper!! Moutaineer, what a nasty rub, sounds like a dumb question but is his sheath clean? I was so thrilled that it's finally hitting the 80's weather. The mud is drying. I can mow. Horses mud fever and hoof abscess can turn into sweet itch and stone b...

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Good job T and SF! I totally get the goal LOL! I rode in a biomechanics clinic that our local chapter of our GMO put on. IT WAS GREAT! I've always had an on again off again (mostly on) problem with my left hand doing its own thing. I've been so focused on everything else that the clinician chose 't...

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But if you want to run through and see where you are, a schooling show can be useful. i wish our schooling shows were more reliably valuable in this way. We have a lot of them locally, and I think they are good option for people that need to get milage for themselves or their horses. But I've found...

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Well done Aleuronx. I did my test runs at PSG on Saiph at a schooling show. Less expense and real practice. She wom the PSG championship, but I decided I needed more basic correct rideabilty to show rated. In my youth I would have just gone for it. But if you want to run through and see where you ar...

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Chisamba - what a lovely active leg yield! You have inspired me to school these big sweeping ones. I avoid them because they're so hard for us (I know, I know!) We tried a new bit yesterday. My one instructor suggested that we try something a slightly sharper than his current French link full-cheek...

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Exvet, i am sorry you are having a personally challenging time. I hope riding heals you as it does me. We are always looking for a better connection, are we not? its not like you get it and its done, check mark, its a continual progression. Aleuronix, lovely progress !! LSP, also lovely progress , L...

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I don't know how anybody ever gets to Grand Prix before either they or the horse dies of old age. LOL, that is kind of how I feel right now. Like, we've come so far in the last year and yet we have so much more work to do at second level. :lol: the funny thing about this statement is that when i go...

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https://youtube.com/shorts/Ckk4zjgCqA4?si=BSFEAHB1clpGU2Hc For some reason I am finding it very hard to post, and edit on ddbb lately. Sometimes it takes hours to just open a page. Anyway hopefully this is a snippet of going sideways to supple and activate the inside hind, but with sit, after this ...

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Well if two months was supposed to be enough time to fix Pauletta s canter transition, it wasn't. It wasn't even enough time to get an honest trot connection. She wants to sit behind the contact, curled and too soft. As for Saiph, turns out longing her once a week in the long lines is a pretty big h...

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I train other people's horses. I have some riders whose only goal is to ride safely and enjoy their horse. They keep the horse in training because they are weekend riders and want safe happy horses. Their horses are the easiest to train. They learn so few evasions. Their riders rarely even ask for a...

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Troy looks like a chunk. Interesting exercise on Kimba this clinic if anyone is interested. 20m circle in Counter canter ( because she needs to find her balance and carry behind ) to simple change to something between piaffe and school trot, to counter canter . The idea being that the trot is as .mu...

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Moutaineer, who knew there was a boot addicts Facebook. Lol. I risked buying a pair of Parlanti boots in brown also a bit tall for my length of calf. Ans lace up. I didn't know i would s hate lace ups. Expensive lesson.

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I don't know many that go into a test situation and ho-hum just crack it out like at home, certainly not me. Hence the schooling show to get my head back into it. I struggle with the boundaries of it, I ride a good movement at home and tend to reward and walk whereas in a test you are stuck finishi...

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Aleuronx, does she accelerate during the changes? That's Kimba's mo. Saiph shuts down. It's a bit funny how a test situation seems to stress us into riding differently and suddenly stuff that we can do becomes a bit more complicated, or is that just me? I rent the barn and stables and am moving this...

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Hello everyone, Exvet, i have had a few shows where i KNEW i was better but the score didn't show it. Don't be disheartened. I'm giving a bit of boring video of Pauletta in a lesson, so https://youtu.be/a0k4l0Rf9zQ?si=8TjABf03vn4rD5Pt Comments welcome so long as they are not too harsh lol. Those dea...

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One of the horses in training will pull the reins out of your hands to try attack the barn cats. But the same horse will nuzzle them on his fence post. Exvet, sounds positive on the same, I hope it continues so. Good luck with the show. Mari we have a sink hole in the highway near us. While they wer...

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A couple of photos to demo my problem, when I ride Saiph more collected she trails behind. When moderately collected she sits better.

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So much rain here. There is a joke going around that 70% of the earth is covered in water, 69% of it is covering Gauteng currently. Our arenas are all uncovered, and if it's too wet we don't get to use them. And of course I have a show in a few weeks :lol: I took advantage of a few minutes of dry-i...

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jingles for horses and humans that are not 100% yet. Chisamba, how are things going with Siaph cantering up and up and up? I had my first lesson this year and she decided that staying consistently into the contact in relative collection was not that difficult after all. So I think its working. Lett...

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Wow, Feb is over and spring has sprung. Well not for Americans who use astrological spring, but for those of us who live metereologically. I accomplished both more, and less, in the first two months of the year than expected. Zero clinics, many weeks of deep freeze led to greater accomplishments in ...

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Well goldhorse, that sounds most counter productive!! I hope you heal soon. Moutaineer and Straightforward, I'm a great proponent of safety first longing. Especially when it's been icy and little opportunity for the horses to blow off steam in their fields. I feel like I'm on a good track with the b...

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Goodness Exvet you are in saddle finding hell aren't you. Blob, if she is anxious spooky or sees something distant she can and does the giraffe imitation. If she and Kimba are galloping around playing at liberty she tends to be level where as kimba tends to be head high. I agree with your thoughts, ...

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Blob, Saiph does jump, she enjoys poles, she is not careful over jumps and hangs her knees which is why her early career as a hunter was scrapped for rapid rushed dressage training to sell. She is hunter bred , Redwine is absolutely a hunter presuming stallion. She was shown hunter in hand as a youn...

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Go get your silver Moutaineer!! sorry I missed or forgot your bronze. So I have been attempting to identify one thing that whomever I am riding is seeking to avoid, that is detracting from the connection and response to the aids. And then fixing, as in supporting the horse to do that one thing and b...

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I have had to cancel both of my clinics because of cold and ice. I hope march brings happier riding weather. And I just mean warm enough to get to the barn safely. Letta is going to be training level ready I think. I'll spend money on a couple of training shows to see how tense she becomes but I'd l...

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Training thoughts. Excellence is in the accomplishment of its purpose. In art for example anyone can put paint in a brush and smear it in a canvas, but not every stroke accomplished the purpose of making a beautiful painting. So each aid is like a stroke of a paint brush. Does it accomplish its purp...

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Kimba and Letta came back to work like they never left. Saiph is totally back to being blocked, k
Locked up, , not forward and grumpy. Time off does not suit her

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I do a sort of physiotherapy combine simple yoga routine daily or a minimum of three times a week. It's the one exercise schedule I am quite committed to. Yesterday I managed to ride six horses without feeling exhausted so in happy about that. The baby is 27.2 and I admit I mostly did groundwork, th...

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I'm finally at a weight I like, so my challenge is increased fitness and after the nasty bout I had with Covid in January, this is proving difficult.

Right now I can barely ride ask the horses in a day that I was at the end of last year.

For this who recovered from covid, suggestions welcome

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Fabulous Aleuronx!!

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My energy is not back to where it should be yet. Wow that covid slammed me. I have been expending most of my skill and energy on client horses so on my own I have been doing slow walk work sort of French style. Stretch the topline, loosen the poll and have a nice feel in both reins. The advantage be...

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I was happily able to ride my girls this afternoon, it warmed up to 20F . Mostly slow work but it was really nice. Both were a bit sluggish of the leg laterally but worked nicely into the outside rein and stretch over the topline.

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Well today it hasn't got above single digit temps, so I don't ride. Riding is recreation not an essential so I don't ride in single digits.

I did sled down the hill which prompted most of the horses to self exercise. Lol.apparenrly humans laughing and sliding ar speed are reasons to run.

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It seems to have you more centered. Is it longer/ on his shoulder more? Ultimately listen to the horse tho I do feel much more centered and not fighting the saddle to maintain proper alignment. It's actually shorter and though off the horse it looks like it might be on his shoulders more, when I pa...

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It seems to have you more centered. Is it longer/ on his shoulder more? Ultimately listen to the horse tho

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Exvet i agree it seems to put you on the cantle. I also hate saddle shopping. It can be so frustrating. Pic of the Antares?

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We are currently having a super cold week or two. January is always the most challenging month due to the cold.

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I'm recovering thank you, although my lung inflammation hasn't completely cleared. I'm using the nebulizer but the cold air really sets off my asthma.

As for the horses, bringing them back into work as the weather and my strength allows.

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Hello everyone, I came back from Ireland, slammed with Covid, which knocked me for a loop. I am over the virus but with my Reactive Airway condition and the diabetes I'm struggling to breathe. I have clients calling to resume lessons and training and my horses looking obese, and I'm just lying, brea...

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It's below riding weather today and tomorrow. I sometimes hop on over the blanket and just do walk poles and side passes etc, but I'm struggling with a kidney infection so that hurts, might b be time for in hand reindeer game

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I have two lessons a week with Stephane Cheret, and obviously Saiph is my primary focus, but I alternate between horses for the second ride, either based on what eye I need, or what horse is going to help me improve myself. So I switch between Fly, Pauletta and Kimba. Of course he says i have too ma...

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Chisamba, I not only feel your pain, I had a very similar experience. Merlin who was a 3/4 brother of my late stallion Resolute arrived at my ranch as a yearling. He was foaled in Tennessee and wasn't known to be anything but a healthy playful colt. He was intact. My hope was for he to my herd sire...

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mari wrote:Wonderful photos Moutaineer!
Well done Flight, what a lovely jumping pic.

I left the house early this morning, drove 40 mins to my lesson, and upon arrival realised I'd forgotten my saddle.

It is " no stirrup November: "

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I could not, even though I tried, read through this whole thread I wantef to to know if had missed things I think i have told everyone that i ultimately had to euthanize Neb as she vecame increasingly anxious, aggressive and unhappy. Bur it was only when she walked diwn a slope in her field that i r...

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