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He is attractive and though the photo is not posed for confirmation, he looks like he has good slope to his shoulder, a nice butt and his neck shape seems to have a dressage potential. Congratulations.

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I was able to rip and level my indoor , and work the footing so I am now happy with it again. This being great because i feel like i can work the horses without having to worry about hard spots. Kimba is over her hot spots ( scratches, mud fever, whatever you want to call it) mostly, and back in wor...

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I have trained quite a lot of different types of saddlebred and saddlebred x horses. ( national show horses ) There are lovely ammie friendly all round good ones, and ones that are so hot that one day they will kill themselves or you. I highly recommend them as a nice all round horse, so long as you...

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She looks lovely.

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None of the hay products I searched addresses mold spores before processing. I have found that steaming the hay reduces dust and spores in a way that buying hay product just did not. Using hay pellet did not stop Teddy's cough the way steaming has.

Just my experience.

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Chisamba - was it a seasonal issue with your horse regarding allergies? Do you steam hay year round or only during the crazy allergy seasons (which seem to be constant now)? There appears to be lots of human respiratory problems going on now too during this summer season. I have some sinus issues i...

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Also, personally, I'm feeling rather ragey because I'm seeing someone who, through the book she wrote, has hoodwinked people into thinking she's a kind, caring, classical rider, all the while she's ripping and sawing her horse through GP test after GP test......( Well, we're going off topic here, b...

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You arranged for private lessons from a trainer who will travel. The trainer chose to stop a dangerous lesson early. He probably felt the horse was green and needed a shorter session. I do not see the problem. It sounds like the rider does not take advice anyway. If you want to deny yourself a satis...

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The only thing that worked for my coughing horse is steamed hay.

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Dresseur wrote:Work is sucking my soul right now. That is all.

sorry Dresseur,

I too am amid a six day sixty hour stretch, ( ten of those hours making up for taking off for the fair) but it can be exhausting when combined with riding and taking care of the horses.

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Very cool, Chisamba. So fun when "your" kids do well. That is quite the lovely picture. Being a 4H leader can be supremely aggravating at times, but oh so rewarding. I also love how much more grounded the kids are who stay in 4H through their teen years. This year, my son qualified for th...

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Mountaineer, go for it. 3rd rides easier than second if you have all the components.

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Wow, Tarlo Farms. That's fabulous. I dont enter anything myself but I do assist my 4h crew with their booth, riding etc. My horses are represented by the youth. We were quite successful this year. One of my students was thecequine representative. The booth won an excellent, and my working student an...

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MC, that last pic is in the warmup. A stretch to counteract the 'teapot' pose he can get. Why wouldn't you care if they were on the forehand for the stretch? I know I find it difficult to get the weight back off if I let it happen? Flight, i am not watching you so i possibly cannot tell you how to ...

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Musical comedy, hot spots is a term used for dogs, but i really feel like that is what i have, you get a very small skin abrasion, it gets moist, then it gets hot and inflamed and swollen, ( moist dermatitis). the dermatitis can be bacterial, fungal or yeast. anyway, they are hot, inflamed swollen a...

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I do not particularly like to whine, but we really have had more than enough rain in New Jersey. I am now struggling with horses getting hot spots, mud fever, scratches, and the like, from the unusually high wet and hot combination of weather this summer. https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-...

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She stated that if I make a request and he doesn't answer with an immediate 'yes, ma'am' that I correct him swiftly and make a REAL impression. I have always asked once politely and then follow up with the whip or escalate the 'degree' of the request; but, Junior even though he would respond (in th...

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Thanks! I'm taking a look at a local horse that needs an upgrade this weekend. He might not be the upper-level dressage horse of my dreams, but if he's sane enough I'm fairly sure I can make him into a solid citizen and potentially fund the next horse. I'll let you all know how it goes. i am terrib...

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Kimba's mother is a stakes winning pacer. As is her brother. When I started her she had 3 gaits, trot, walk and pace . If she was very excited she'd do a kind of one beat canter. Hop hop hop. I was at the time working with a poll always high clinician and for 2 years we were stuck in a two or four b...

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it could simply be a one time thing. Look at your video and examine stride by stride before being concerned

It's hard to say from one still photo but it could be that his neck is too high, pushing the shoulder down. I'm one who believes the horses shoulder should lift the neck,

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kande have you ever been to PT? I have. You go from a state of pain to a state of no pain. It is not painless on the way though. The equivalent to that in the horse world is correct work. If a horse has a condition that, like in humans is amenable to PT, then you are obliged to do that to take away...

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I agree that generations of being a prey animal make horses stoic about pain. It has also made them an animal designed to heal on the move. Secondly, horses may be stoic but mostly they are honest. You flex they flinch. It is not complicated to see if they are sore, nor if your treatment is helping ...

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Is she tall? Congratulations!

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I've retired horses for a few reasons but believing that retirement hastens old age I try to keep my horses in exercise appropriate to their ability

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I find side reins help more with horses that curl behind the contact than with those that lean.

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The very hot humid weather has caused mud fever to bloom. I spend my days scrubbing with betadine.

Rain every day almost, hot and very humid. Musical comedy it's been unusual in my opinion. What do you think?

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Hot4spots wishing you many happy walks.

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She is looking more filled already, and she looks kind.

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https://youtu.be/Uahi2RQ2tt0
Sorry I looked on you tube maybe this one will.

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Glad horse is ok

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I found a vid of her as a foal on Facebook, joke...https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_ ... =746169174

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chisamba I did not say no one should use SRs, that is your horse your choice. I don't care. Me personally I do not anymore and I have used the range of all manners of SRs etc in lunging. I do not like what they do to the horses as I work them for many reasons. When I lunge I use most often a caveso...

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I definitely train canter in side reins agree with Ryeissa on v reins. Also agree with Dresseur on the bascule transferred to the topline to load the hind end. Still of the opinion that side reins are kinder than hands being more consistent. Will not engage in the thread when it turns to peta like a...

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Rosie, feel well soon.

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Hot4spots, is he in pain? I personally would not keep an animal confined and in pain for another ten years. Perhaps I sound particularly harsh but as cruel as nature is, predators pick off the slow, sore and weak and it is better at that than we are. Edited to add, I believe in giving horses a happy...

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CdK used to come regularly to a barn I was at for a while. I watched his lessons and saw the results. I chose at that time to opt out. I was really really seeking a mentor of what I consider classical method at the time. I was quite sad, actually, to realize It wasnt going to work for me. Actually, ...

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If water took shoes off you'd lose them every time you washed your horse. However that's very strenous. Poor horses

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Cdk was a (apparently very good) jumper rider before he reinvented himself.

Reading your notes reminded me why I find him to be a person I don't work well with. He is full of contradictory statements and exercises.

In my opinion being old doesn't make you classical.

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I love big butts and I cannot lie.

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I might not be able to keep riding with my instructor which is tough because there is no one else who trains along the same lines as what he does. I'm not sure where else to go, because on my own i tend to go down the wrong paths. I'm wondering if I need to try some online stuff etc to try and teac...

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Congratulations. He is lovely. Wishing you the all the good things.

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Love it. It's Fair week here too. My 4 h kids did well at the horse show

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Just to prove i did actually ride Kimba in the clinic. a friend did take some photos its not actually a fabulous photo, but we are all matching in black and white, lol

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he really is a nice looking chap. good luck with your clinic ride

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its been wet here surprisingly late in the year. i prefer barefoot if it is at all possible

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Congratulations

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Chisamba, I really enjoy that photo of you and Titanium, I'm glad you are feeling reproducible effects! In terms of my saddle, it's definitely an optical illusion. Now, do I need to sit down and back a little more, absolutely! lol. But, the pad that I'm using tends to tuck up into the gullet, so it...

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But even better, he's really starting to figure out the haunches in on a circle in the canter and it's making huge changes in his regular canter. He's keeping a large step behind, and I'm able to let go of the inside rein completely for a few steps at a time to test that he's not hanging on me. He'...

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Sadly I did not get many photos from the clinic, my phone, which has quite a good camera and video, broke and so i lost the ones Mikhail took for me, but a friend did get this one i quite like, of titanium during the clinic

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