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Thanks PF. As I was putting meds into the eye this morning I think I saw some more tissue that looked like tumor. I expect my vet to call today about the path and I am going to mention it. We may need a lot of chemo here.

Tsavo

I was thinking about the issue of weight distribution and CH. Here is the thing... I think whether you sit with no weight on thigh or foot, or you are standing in the stirrups, the saddle is distributing your weight over the entire contact area. I think the perception of weight distribution to the ...

Tsavo

khall wrote:Wow that was involved. I've not seen this particular surgery before. Hope your guy comes through it fine and within margins.

Thanks. I will predict there are no margins and possibly involvement of other structures. That piece of tissue does not even resemble a third eyelid.

Tsavo

I was thinking about the issue of weight distribution and CH. Here is the thing... I think whether you sit with no weight on thigh or foot, or you are standing in the stirrups, the saddle is distributing your weight over the entire contact area. I think the perception of weight distribution to the h...

Tsavo

There is an incredible looseness to CH's riding that I greatly admire. Also, I think her skeletal riding is really just staying on with balance alone. khall, I watched your videos from Spain when you posted them then and also that short clip with you and Cedar. When my stirrups were long like that i...

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I have had instructors who worked mostly with the horse and others who focused more on me. I advanced more with the people focused on the horse. I would say this was "guided experimentation" which I am becoming convinced is how people get up the levels. That's because what works for one ri...

Tsavo

Those photos are good,Chisamba. I wish Haddad could see and comment on the weight distribution effects.

Tsavo

That is Savoie's exercise.

Tsavo

F/D/O
Moving the neck around in all gaits
Serps
Large walk on hills

Tsavo

I asked if the high ringbone joint can fuse on its own and he said yes. I asked how many degrees of ROM he would lose and the answer was none. That joint does not move. Knowing this, if we can isolate the problem to the high ringbone I will likely pursue fusion.

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Tsavo

Thanks Tuddy. Well it looked to me like the entire eyelid was involved. In my opinion, not only was there no hope of a clean margin but I thought it seemed like the cancer may not have been limited to the eyelid. But we have to wait for the path report. I am pretty sure he is going to say I need to ...

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Tsavo wrote:My horse will be at the clinic today for the eyelid. I will ask the vet about the connection between scratches and cushings and if my horse should be tested.

I asked my vet about any connection between scratches and Cushings. No.

Tsavo

Some horses need more than the "minimum recommended" of zinc, copper, and Vitamin E in their diet. I do a high dose (8,000 IU) of Vitamin E daily and have seen a huge reduction in skin issues (4 white legs and at least one always has something brewing towards scratches). My vet has said y...

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In re the equicizer, I think one could get completely adept at it and still be NOWHERE in riding. Just my opinion. I took a lesson on one and later learned that the instructor rode at my level. That was probably ridiculous especially when combined with my first thought. Now I hear there are FEI equi...

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Haddad and skeletal riding advocates no weight anywhere except the seat. She says the horse has to carry your entire weight anyway. I think she is talking about a trained horse here. Anyway this is in direct opposition to Wanless who advocates distributing the weight between seat, thigh, and stirrups.

Tsavo

My horse will be at the clinic today for the eyelid. I will ask the vet about the connection between scratches and cushings and if my horse should be tested.

Tsavo

Chisamba wrote: i was referencing the video Khall posted.

Moffett. Can someone refresh me on where she is w.r.t. riding level?

Tsavo

Hi khall. We talked about this. He doe not fit the symptom profile. At least two other horses, both younger, are dealing with scratches.

Tsavo

Cheapest fix I have found was Desitin mixed with hydrocortisone cream. Apply daily before TO. Other is keep grass cut short. I have tried both. No go. I have to admit that the pricey cream the vet sold me makes the scabs much easier to remove. Also, when I removed them today, there was some skin an...

Tsavo

Do I think you have to suck the back of the horse up with your arse cheeks, as suggested in the video. NO. That's asinine. (See what I did there, lol ) I saw what you did there! I think we have to try to translate what the person really means by that. It is an okay description of what it feels like...

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The things that my instructor would have me do were along the lines of what Savoie did to that fourth level rider asking them to do something they never practiced... T/C/T in SF down the centerline. Yes a fourth level horse should be able to do that in its sleep and with a little practice, any fourt...

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It seems Obama and Bush were quite honored to have been asked to speak. And his daughter did a good job of elevating her father by comparing him to Trump. These are good things. McCain was complex and made mistakes like everyone else. Nothing is sacred. I don't agree with de-platforming people no ma...

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The balimo came to mind when reading this thread. I have tried it once and didn't think it was particularly useful because the ROM was much more than any normal horse would move your hips. (In contrast I thought the Equicizer or whatever that electric horse was called had an unrealistically too smal...

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This is probably a side bar, but i had a friend who had the hardest time developing a connection on her horse, she also had a very difficult time with circles. I literally had to buy fourty cones, twenty pairs, and measure a 20 m circle and put it out there and she could barely stay between the pai...

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What with all the biopsying, I forgot to mention I asked the vet if my horse has a straight hind. He looked at the leg and said he could use more angle at the hip/stifle. I am not able to assess that. I was looking at where the point of hock was in relation to the butt. So my vet says he leg is stra...

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Dresseur wrote:It’s not intermittent, unfortunately. Those were from after she had me do a bunch of changes. And I’m sorry if I was snippy. I do appreciate insights and tips, I read it differently than was intended.

Thanks for this. There is no problem. I love you, your posts, and the horse you rode in on.

Tsavo

My horse goes above the bit, I can do it at a stretching trot with no issues That shouldn't happen if you change nothing else. If you figure out what you changed it won't happen. It is worse at the halt and walk, and fine in trot and canter, so I think it's just lack of impulsion at the slower gait...

Tsavo

I didn't realize it was such an intermittent problem. If so then you probably don't have anything to fix. Nobody is perfect.

I am not trying to give training advice. I am just saying what I would do if I saw myself doing what you were doing in the mirror.

Tsavo

This chick is riding a green horse also. You can see how she neither leads with the shoulders nor gets left behind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcCF6uFjhcM

Tsavo

MC yes I see your point. My hands come together and sometimes touch as my horse comes straight and sits in position. I wish that was all the time but it isn't. I am just grateful my hands are a pretty good feedback on straightness. The limit on this is when one of my instructors was trying to straig...

Tsavo

I think on both videos you lead into the first stride of canter with your shoulders. You have enough tone to not do that. You will NOT get left. This for me was a trust exercise... that a horse can take canter from walk and you won' be left if you don't lean forward. It is completely and totally cou...

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What do you mean by hellish when you put the reins in one hand? My horse does not seem to notice at first when I do that. My horse goes above the bit, I can do it at a stretching trot with no issues That shouldn't happen if you change nothing else. If you figure out what you changed it won't happen.

Tsavo

Thanks for writing that out, Xan. I bought a pricey goo from my vet that has two active ingredients, chlorhexidine and a steroid, that I could have purchased more cheaply at the drug store. And it isn't working. I am forming a few hypotheses about scratches... 1. It is not the same from horse to hor...

Tsavo

What do you mean by hellish when you put the reins in one hand? My horse does not seem to notice at first when I do that.

Tsavo

My horse will get his third eyelid removed on Tuesday and was shod with rollers today. After he recovers, I will rehab him and see what we have. He will have been out of work over a month so he will need a ramp up. I am curious to see if the rollers help but as god is not my witness, he will never b...

Tsavo

Welp, there is a horse on FB who is half Clyde and looks light as a feather so I think it is possible for that mare to be half draft.

I am just saying my 1/4 draft is heavier than both of them combined. LOL

Tsavo

Thanks PF and khall. Curiously the eye is not weeping as much. Just removing the biopsy seems to have helped that. If it goes like the biopsy, there will be no pain during the procedure. But I bet he hurt loads after and will again after the removal. I am going to ask about getting some meaningful p...

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Flight, your videos look very correct to me. The FCs and piaffe ones were extremely nice. I think you are talented. Idon't understand you being gigged for stiff connection unless you rode the show way differently.

PF, were you riding off contact in those photos? Why?

Tsavo

My previous barn must have been getting extremely high end hay because they were paying much more than that. I knew they were obsessed with good quality hay but I didn't realize how much until seeing these other prices.

Tsavo

My horse will have the third eyelid removed Tuesday morning. If they can get clean edges he won't need topical chemo. I will try to photograph the procedure and the excised eyelid to show how big the tumor was. The vet said it is moderate in size but looking around on the Web I think it is on the la...

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The other thing is I had my horse out with another horse and that other horse would bite my horse. It never stopped week after week. I won't have that. So now I am wondering how often things calm down like with Chisamba's example and how often they never do like with my horse.

Tsavo

I agree that was insightful, Chisamba. But I apply that to the horse I ride who sometimes bucks at canter and I am still at a loss to know if it is physical or behavior.

Tsavo

The good ones go quickly but the best ones never hit the ads and go by word of mouth. What you see in the ads are horses whose connections either did not want them or couldn't afford them.

Tsavo

Thanks Mountaineer.

Hmmm. I was under the impression it is like hocks...only a few degrees of movement possible so only a few degrees of movement lost. Is that wrong?

My horse moves comfortably around the pasture now. I would be doing it to keep him comfortable in work.

Tsavo

Squamous cell carcinoma. Arranging a clinic visit to remove the third eyelid. Poor boy.

Tsavo

Hatch sounds high in that artcle from May. Trump is specifically NOT a good man. Senile much?

Tsavo

Please look at the third still picture. I claim exactly nobody would guess that mare is half draft (Belgian!) from that photo. She looks as light than my horse who is only a quarter draft. Call me crazy.

Tsavo

He has high and low on both but L >R and high > low. The vet dissuaded me from fusing due to the long lay up associated with it. I am still considering fusion though because I am confident I can rehab him. He is still athletic enough. He advocates not trying to fuse him but keeping him in work which...

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I will look at that video again but I would never bet money that horse was HALF draft had I not read that. She is not much different from my horse who is a quarter draft and has been mistaken for not having any draft in him.

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