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- Tue Nov 27, 2018 8:05 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: The last sextal (bi month) of 2018. November, December goals and training orogress
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Re: The last sextal (bi month) of 2018. November, December goals and training orogress
I dont really want to buy more if Texas is warmer. What layers would I realistically need for a Texas winter? Is it worth buying or should I just walk around in a tent? What part of Texas are you moving to? The climates are quite different in the different regions! If you're moving to south Texas o...
- Fri Nov 02, 2018 2:24 pm
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: Virtual Horse Shoppers...Who was looking for a nice prospect on a budget?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7989
Re: Virtual Horse Shoppers...Who was looking for a nice prospect on a budget?
An update...a friend just bought this youngster from this group. He had just (and I mean 'just') been lightly started under saddle so she (amateur) hopped on for test ride. https://www.facebook.com/jody.swimmer/videos/10215876418257477/?t=25 8-) Isn't that the gal who has done so well with the ASBs...
- Tue Oct 30, 2018 1:30 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Safe Sport
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13944
Re: Safe Sport
My only real complaints is that I don't think USDF/USEF have done a particularly good job of making people aware they need to take this by Jan 1 if they want to compete in 2019. Wait....is this true? I have no idea if I will show in 2019 or not. I won't even renew my memberships until I decide to s...
- Tue Oct 09, 2018 1:33 pm
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- Topic: Slow Cooker Chili
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5339
Re: Slow Cooker Chili
I used this recipe this past (cold, wet) weekend -- it WAS delicious!!!! Thank you for sharing it!!!!!!
- Thu Sep 20, 2018 1:41 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: I Sold My Dressage Saddle Today....
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11585
Re: I Sold My Dressage Saddle Today....
Changes are so hard. Good for you embracing it and making steps forward. Western dressage -- NOT COWBOY DRESSAGE -- is good, though. Look over the Western Dressage Association of America (WDAA) tests, I bet you can have a lot of fun working them. It really is dressage in western tack. (Cowboy Dressa...
- Wed Sep 12, 2018 2:07 pm
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- Topic: Registered vs. Show Names
- Replies: 24
- Views: 14659
Re: Registered vs. Show Names
Too many QHs had the legacy of someone's terrific idea to name a horse Bugs Alive in '75. Who became a very prolific stallion. Creating decades of Bug This That or Something. There's an easily traced lineage for you but .... ugh. But...Bugs Alive In 75 WAS alive in 1975 8-) He ran up half a million...
- Tue Sep 11, 2018 2:06 pm
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- Topic: Registered vs. Show Names
- Replies: 24
- Views: 14659
Re: Registered vs. Show Names
Keep his registered name. Use it for his show name too. Use whatever name you want for a call name, he doesn't care. I will tell you why: 1. I realize dressage competitors have their own naming traditions, and thus QH names seem "odd," but QH names have a tradition, too. His name is, in ma...
- Sun Aug 26, 2018 12:08 pm
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- Topic: May I Have a Seat on the New Horse Bus?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 13794
Re: May I Have a Seat on the New Horse Bus?
What is her breeding? (A kill pen horse had papers?) She is double-bred Peppy San, Smart Little Lena, Doc Tari and the immediate family of Freckles Playboy. So bred to work cows eight ways from Sunday. Yes, they left her papers with her - and it saved her life. So whatever else they DIDN’T do for h...
- Fri Aug 24, 2018 1:01 pm
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- Topic: May I Have a Seat on the New Horse Bus?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 13794
Re: May I Have a Seat on the New Horse Bus?
Thanks guys. It's been fun to see her develop already and I'm excited to work with her. When she is loose, her first instinct when she turns/moves/shifts is to rock back on her hocks and crouch. That unexpected athleticism, along with her good mind, makes me so excited for her future, although I'm a...
- Thu Aug 23, 2018 6:58 pm
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- Topic: May I Have a Seat on the New Horse Bus?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 13794
May I Have a Seat on the New Horse Bus?
Since apparently we've got a New Horse party bus happening around here, may I step on? :mrgreen: Meet my new filly! Look, she's bay! :lol: I had the yen for a new prospect, but I learned that I have champagne taste and a Pabst budget, so I decided to just go ahead and go equine dumpster diving inste...
- Thu Aug 23, 2018 4:23 pm
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- Topic: A couple of nice videos
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9041
Re: A couple of nice videos
Such wonderful horses. Loved the video! Your guy is so handsome.
- Thu Aug 23, 2018 4:14 pm
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- Topic: Virtual shoppers, interested in another one?
- Replies: 163
- Views: 71934
Re: Virtual shoppers, interested in another one?
Sorry about this tough place, Scruffy. Hugs for you.
Do you have any friends that could use a horse exercised for a little while, until you are able to heal up a little bit?
Do you have any friends that could use a horse exercised for a little while, until you are able to heal up a little bit?
- Wed Aug 22, 2018 1:32 pm
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- Topic: The Casual Impossible Horse Hunt: August update
- Replies: 166
- Views: 76541
Re: The Casual Impossible Horse Hunt: August update
Well done! Congrats! He's super cute!
PM me his pedigree I wanna see
PM me his pedigree I wanna see
- Tue Aug 07, 2018 8:02 pm
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- Topic: Meet Mikey
- Replies: 42
- Views: 18530
Re: Meet Mikey
Wow, beautiful, congrats!
- Tue Aug 07, 2018 7:59 pm
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- Topic: I have a big announcement... actually more of a tall announcement!
- Replies: 46
- Views: 19881
Re: I have a big announcement... actually more of a tall announcement!
Pretty! Congrats!
- Tue Aug 07, 2018 7:58 pm
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- Topic: Another Chestnut Newcomer
- Replies: 26
- Views: 15605
Re: Another Chestnut Newcomer
Cute, Sunshine!
You have to give me her pedigree, though, you can't just tease me You can PM me if you want.
You have to give me her pedigree, though, you can't just tease me You can PM me if you want.
- Tue Jun 05, 2018 1:38 pm
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- Topic: The Casual Impossible Horse Hunt: August update
- Replies: 166
- Views: 76541
Re: The Casual Impossible Horse Hunt
Although I love QH and have a pretty decent one I really don't think you will do well in the upper levels with a stock type horse unless they just have exceptional gaits for a QH. Hey now, don't drag QHs down! I know and honestly understand the point you're making, but I hate discouraging people li...
- Mon Jun 04, 2018 12:57 pm
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- Topic: The Casual Impossible Horse Hunt: August update
- Replies: 166
- Views: 76541
Re: The Casual Impossible Horse Hunt
Any quarter horse people willing to help me out with some bloodlines? There’s a nearby breeder who has a couple potential prospects for sale— Mr San Peppy/Dual Blue Boon bloodlines. Looks like cutting breeding to me. Any experience turning cutters (unbacked) into dressage horses? Ponichiwa, hit me ...
- Sun May 27, 2018 3:12 pm
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- Topic: The Casual Impossible Horse Hunt: August update
- Replies: 166
- Views: 76541
Re: The Casual Impossible Horse Hunt
LOL, I am also on an impossible horse hunt. Except I want another GP prospect that can also work a cow. If you want a yellow horse, there are good uphill QHs (maybe not with 8-9 gaits per se but adequate and that have the heart to work themselves to death for you), that would fit the rest of your cr...
- Tue May 22, 2018 2:28 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Get me out of training level!
- Replies: 89
- Views: 48405
Re: Get me out of training level!
Xan.... I am an amateur rider with a classic-built 15hh Quarter Horse. You can't miss us at the dressage shows. :lol: I had never ridden dressage before, and he certainly hadn't had an English saddle swung up on him. He lives at home. I am the only one that rides him. We have learned together. Toget...
- Mon Feb 05, 2018 2:01 pm
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- Topic: Best comments from judge
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11015
Re: Best comments from judge
One day I went to ride into the arena for an FEI test. The scribe had to go use the restroom, so they hollered at me to hold up. So I just dropped the reins and we just stood there and waited. The Cowpony fell asleep. The scribe came back, I gathered up my reins and we rode a decent 60-something tes...
- Wed Oct 04, 2017 1:14 pm
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- Topic: Third Level DEBUT - show report
- Replies: 15
- Views: 12615
Re: Third Level DEBUT - show report
Congrats! How fun, and he looks great!
- Thu Aug 24, 2017 4:30 pm
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- Topic: Starbucks anyone?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9600
Re: Starbucks anyone?
Here's my I-1 horse, who gets to sleep tied to my trailer all night at competitive trail rides.
Guessing not many FEI horses do that, either.
(In the photo, he was looking for his breakfast before we started getting ready to ride. He'd qualified for dressage regionals 2 weekends prior.)
Guessing not many FEI horses do that, either.
(In the photo, he was looking for his breakfast before we started getting ready to ride. He'd qualified for dressage regionals 2 weekends prior.)
- Mon Jul 17, 2017 1:23 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Training via Skype?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5745
Re: Training via Skype?
It's how I've done lessons the past 7 years...it works pretty well. The basic theme is you hook up a live streaming product, with a camera capable of capturing enough detail the instructor can see, and sufficient internet upload/download on both ends that it can push the video in a smooth, timely ma...
- Fri Jul 07, 2017 9:21 pm
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- Topic: The Dressage Lesson - A Poem
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3264
Re: The Dressage Lesson - A Poem
That sounds about right!
- Mon May 01, 2017 9:40 pm
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- Topic: Best place to live with horses?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 18013
Re: Best place to live with horses?
I mean....what about Oklahoma? No one ever seems to want to live there, so costs are pretty reasonable. Lots of grass. The winters are pretty mild. Lots of great places to trail ride. Good dressage scene with lots of clinics and other horsie events. Look around the suburbs of the OKC and Tulsa areas...
- Wed Mar 22, 2017 6:43 pm
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- Topic: Condolences to Kathy Johnson
- Replies: 14
- Views: 12341
Re: Condolences to Kathy Johnson
Sorry for your loss Kathy
- Wed Mar 22, 2017 6:42 pm
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- Topic: Major Jingles to Chancellor
- Replies: 44
- Views: 24890
Re: Major Jingles to Chancellor
Jingles, Chancellor!
- Thu Mar 16, 2017 12:29 am
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- Topic: 1st World Whine about the weather
- Replies: 15
- Views: 12889
Re: 1st World Whine about the weather
In my neck of the woods, it is already getting into the 70s. We have had no moisture and have just suffered horrible lethal fires It is only March. Can I have your precip?
- Wed Mar 08, 2017 2:02 am
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- Topic: Momentos
- Replies: 17
- Views: 12850
Re: Momentos
A photographer friend took some photos of my mare when I knew it was The End -- was about 3 days before she ultimately passed. My friend did a wonderful job getting a portrait of her head and a few of us together. I did save some hair, but I am not a jewelry person either so it is just in a bag in a...
- Sun Mar 05, 2017 3:15 pm
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- Topic: And now I have no water in my barn!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7842
- Sun Mar 05, 2017 3:11 pm
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- Topic: Need Help Naming -"E" and "J" suggestions please!
- Replies: 31
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Re: Need Help Naming -"E" and "J" suggestions please!
I have used the name Ensign, and it has been a good name.
- Tue Feb 28, 2017 7:33 pm
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- Topic: Books! What are we reading these days?
- Replies: 24
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Re: Books! What are we reading these days?
I've just finished the 4th dressage chronicles What did you think of it? I enjoyed it just as much as the previous ones, as always the horsey part was great, but (trying to stay vague to prevent spoilers) I guess I wished for more detail in the people relationships, just because it was the final bo...
- Tue Feb 28, 2017 7:26 pm
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- Topic: Granny squares are in vogue.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8782
Re: Granny squares are in vogue.
How cute!
- Tue Feb 28, 2017 7:25 pm
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- Topic: The carousel never stops turning.
- Replies: 26
- Views: 18094
Re: The carousel never stops turning.
Sorry for your tough times, that is a lot to struggle with and I wish you the best.
Your new horses look amazing though!
Your new horses look amazing though!
- Sun Feb 19, 2017 2:34 pm
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- Topic: Books! What are we reading these days?
- Replies: 24
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Re: Books! What are we reading these days?
Dressage Chronicle fans, the 4th and final book just dropped. Its called Rings of Fire. Hasnt been long since the 3d book came out, so sort of a happy surprise. Otherwise, if anyone is looking for lighthearted beach reading romance, I have enjoyed the books by Penny Reid. There is a knitting series ...
- Fri Feb 17, 2017 5:04 pm
- Forum: Senior Horses/Senior Riders
- Topic: need to vent - more on reasonable work for a 26 year old horse
- Replies: 20
- Views: 17201
Re: need to vent - more on reasonable work for a 26 year old horse
Earlier this week, I watched a 23 year old gelding perform in the Non Pro Bridle class at the Reined Cow Horse Association's world show. That means he has to do a reining pattern, then do cow work (boxing - sort of like cutting, then fence work - running the cow down the fence, turning it both direc...
- Fri Feb 17, 2017 4:34 pm
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- Topic: Clicker training
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6173
Re: Clicker training
Clicker training uses shaping, markers and positive reinforcement to develop skills. You need: your mouth, little edible treats, and a creative spirit. What I mean by that is I don't use a physical clicker. I, and many clicker trainers, use a mouth click to "mark" a behavior. The click I u...
- Thu Feb 09, 2017 3:31 pm
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- Topic: 13 Reasons Why will be on Netflix starting March 31
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7680
Re: 13 Reasons Why will be on Netflix starting March 31
How cool! Congrats to him. Will have to look for the show.
- Thu Feb 02, 2017 7:46 pm
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- Topic: Vulture invasion
- Replies: 43
- Views: 24044
Re: Vulture invasion
150 vultures would make me nervous too! Toooooo many Stans!
- Mon Jan 23, 2017 2:10 pm
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- Topic: I Got Myself a REALLY Fun Gift!
- Replies: 20
- Views: 15118
Re: I Got Myself a REALLY Fun Gift!
Oh wow!
That is just BEAUTIFUL!
I love the flower theme. I have seen others done before, but I just LOVE this one!
That is just BEAUTIFUL!
I love the flower theme. I have seen others done before, but I just LOVE this one!
- Tue Jan 17, 2017 2:43 pm
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- Topic: Riding vacations in Spain
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7110
Re: Riding vacations in Spain
I've posted this a few times before, but I went about 5 or so years ago and it was amazing. I know they've made a few changes since then -- notably you stay in town now, instead of on the property -- but my experience was awesome, just awesome. From the people (kind, knowledgeable) to the food (exce...
- Fri Dec 30, 2016 1:19 am
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- Topic: Tell us about YOU.
- Replies: 223
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Re: Tell us about YOU.
highoctane wrote:My first post since finding this board .
Welcome back Hope to see more of you around. Your animals are so beautiful!
- Tue Dec 27, 2016 2:08 pm
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- Topic: Christmas ornament portrait of experiment
- Replies: 19
- Views: 13192
Re: Christmas ornament portrait of experiment
Super cool! Love it!
- Sun Dec 25, 2016 3:42 am
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- Topic: I got a pony for Christmas
- Replies: 17
- Views: 12978
Re: I got a pony for Christmas
And with chrome, no less! How wonderful and adorable, congrats.
I hope you at least consider naming her Holly
I hope you at least consider naming her Holly
- Fri Dec 23, 2016 1:53 am
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- Topic: Small rant about (discontinued) small appliances
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5950
Re: Small rant about (discontinued) small appliances
Did you google search the product model and description? There are usually resellers for that kind of thing. Or call the company? Surely youre not the first one to need a replacement of a replaceable part!
What an annoyance for you!
What an annoyance for you!
- Wed Dec 14, 2016 5:54 pm
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- Topic: A toasty 5 degrees last night
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5133
Re: A toasty 5 degrees last night
That is chilly! Glad Miss A likes her new stall and you had an enjoyable evening.
The weather forecast is telling us it's going to be 70 degrees here on Friday -- and then a low of 5 degrees on Saturday. Ugh, drastic temp swings!
The weather forecast is telling us it's going to be 70 degrees here on Friday -- and then a low of 5 degrees on Saturday. Ugh, drastic temp swings!
- Mon Dec 12, 2016 10:34 pm
- Forum: Senior Horses/Senior Riders
- Topic: what is a senior rider?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9757
Re: what is a senior rider?
In the Quarter Horse world, when you turn 50 you're eligible for the Select division.
It has its own world show!
Helps people look forward to the milestone
It has its own world show!
Helps people look forward to the milestone
- Fri Dec 09, 2016 2:41 pm
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- Topic: Good read on history of [Grand Prix] freestyle
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4808
Re: Good read on history of [Grand Prix] freestyle
Interesting, thanks for sharing Anne. I guess I hear what you're saying, but respectfully disagree, galopp. Training issues are training issues, I don't think the freestyle causes that. But I do think it's important on the world stage, to allow riders to show off, if you will, on their own terms and...
- Wed Dec 07, 2016 12:57 am
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- Topic: How many blankets does one horse need?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 23902
Re: How many blankets does one horse need?
Man I have multiple heavy ones, and when it gets cold the wussy horse has been known to wear several heavy blankets at once, while his buddy is "naked." To each his own!