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Well done!

Potters and I are going to our first show in 8 days... you are making me feel better!

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ExVet, I thought Junior looked pretty good. A bit tense, and it's frustrating about the flying changes, but I was expecting you'd get a higher score than that. I'm envious of your lovely solid position and quiet leg! Good on you, Chisamba, for going out and doing the PSG. I'm sure you got a lot of u...

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Bummer, Blob. Fingers crossed you can get some resolution. Huge storm as I was getting on Potters today. I had seen it coming so had already retired to the indoor arena, but the rain hammering on the roof was absolutely deafening. Potters held it rather tensely together for 15 minutes or so, then th...

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A bit of Potters eye candy

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I'm so sorry life is being so difficult, LSP. I hope your husband continues on his road to recovery, and that you get some much-needed horse time. I miss hearing about your journey with Lynx. Yesterday Potters came in with a fat fetlock with a hole in it. I don't know how they manage to do these thi...

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Lovely picture SF. I like Annabelle!

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I'm also subscribing to Chisamba's advice on improving the canter. Mostly thats for me, as when I improve my seat and position, he magically improves, too! We had some lovely canter work yesterday in the indoor as it was pouring with rain (solidly forecast to do so for the next 10 days.) I've never ...

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I'm glad you had a good time, though I'm sorry you got Covid. There seems to be an awful lot of it around at the moment. I hope you are feeling better. It seems to rain all the time in Iceland. I have two other friends who have been this year and all their pictures show them bundles up in layers of ...

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Sometimes boring news is good news, Chisamba!

Just chugging along here. Today is our "day off" so I get to do office work

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Good crossing, Chisamba! Well, in a moment of madness, I've signed up for a show in mid-June. It's just around the corner from the barn and pretty much the entire barn is going, which should be entertaining. As long as my trainer can stay under the radar of the facility owner, it should be OK... It'...

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Oh, yeah, Chisamba. I got hit up on the clarity of aids thing, too. Its so much easier to be clear when the horse is in front of your leg and has its own motor.

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What a bummer, Susan. Maybe you will luck our with the new owners. Fingers crossed. Day 2 of the clinic had me on an electric horse looking for things to spook at. After being an outstandingly relaxed and calm boy the day before I was a little disappointed, but at least it gave us the opportunity to...

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Good luck, Blob. Could he still be holding tension in that canter because his tum still hurts? Day 1 of the Mette clinic in the bag. It went very well, and she is pleased with the improvement in my position and in how I am riding, which made me very happy! We worked, as always, on alignment, among o...

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Cowbird?

Somewhere i have a picture of one of mine with a row of them down his back.

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Nice, Aleuronx! You must be pleased. I'd be beyond thrilled to earn an 8 for a medium trot. Really tough decision Chisamba. I feel for you. But one to make before she hurts a human who isn't related to you and who then sues the heck out of you. I don't think I've ever shared this, but one of the rea...

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Don't expect the weather to be decent here, SF.

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To your third point, Chisamba. Jeremy S was saying last weekend that he thinks this line we have about dressage just being training things that horses do naturally at liberty (paraphrasing this) is "complete effing bullshit" (bowdlerizing this.)

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Hes very handsome, Chisamba! And yes, a very lucky boy. I had my first solo ride with no Justin warmup since when? Thee end of January i think? on Tuesday. It was great! Just a really good ride with everything feeling like it was coming smoothly and effortlessly. I couldn't be happier. Unfortunately...

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I can't believe it's May already. I can't quite get used to writing the date as 2023 yet... Something about the pandemic screwed with my sense of time, I think. I have a clinic with Mette the weekend after next, which I think will be enormously helpful in getting me over this stupid anxiety thing. I...

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I'm riding again, and I'm riding much better than I was. I'm still having Justin hop on first to do a warm-up, but I'm hoping this will be the last week of that as being a regular thing. I was going to get all brave this morning, then the cement trucks turned up... Potters was actually a complete ro...

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Darn it, Chisamba. What a giant pain. Potters has been a model citizen this week. Today the landscapers were zipping around on the skid steer just outside the far end of the arena, so he was very "up." But whilst he certainly gave Justin a run for his money, he was more forward than spooky...

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How is Kimba, Chisamba? Justin videoed my ride on Saturday. It wasn't ugly, per se, in fact there were some very nice moments, all told. But could we have been going any slower at the trot and not left a silvery trail of slime behind us? It didn't feel like that from on top... So today, I upped the ...

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I'm sorry Chisamba. What a tough few days.

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So, yes, I had my first ever ride in a double today (I don't know how I've managed to ride for 55 years without using one before, but there we are!) Potters is experienced in a double and I bought the same bit set up as his previous owner was using. Very interesting. A completely different feel. I f...

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Potters is feeling great. My bank account is weeping. We had some lovely work today, culminating in a really nice canter pirouette -- I could just feel it was right there, so we did it... Double bridle test run day tomorrow. That should be fun! I'll try and get some pictures. It was snowing hard eno...

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Lots of interesting videos in this thread now I've had a chance to sit and watch them all! Tanga, that was a tough score, even though I think the PSG is a very hard test to score well on. There are a bazillion nit-picky little things that can drag you down, it would seem. I think I watched all the P...

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The weather has been totally schizophrenic here. We rode outside yesterday in a howling gale, which could have been more fun. I think I picked most of the county out of my eyeballs when we were done. Apart from a significant boggle at the landscaper's skid steer--he really has a bit of a thing about...

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Chisamba wrote:
Moutaineer wrote:Good luck, Exvet!

Well I got first tracks of the year in the outdoor arena today. It was wonderful. Potters is such a happy boy outside.

Wow it was 90 here. The outdoor was hot and buggy

It snowed on the way home from the barn...

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Good luck, Exvet!

Well I got first tracks of the year in the outdoor arena today. It was wonderful. Potters is such a happy boy outside.

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Looking good SF! I'm glad Joplin is feeling better Khall! Potters was back to his normal self yesterday. Fingers crossed you can get to the bottom of RPs issues, Blob. Potters lets me know when he needs some maintenance by indulging in progressively bad behavior. He is not the stoic, soldier on type...

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Ah, yes. There is a matter of degree here. My vet is an excellent diagnostician and technician but he is a bit of an old track vet and always assumes that the goal is to get the horse back into productive work asap. I'm more about longevity, so with him, I always tend to add in additional time! For ...

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My biggest advice with any suspensory injury is to take the rehab program your vet gives you and double the time for each phase.

And accept the fact that you will have at least one setback when either the horse tries to behave like a moron or some well intentioned person does something stupid.

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Midnight poop and looking pretty normal today but will keep a close eye on him.

Horses...

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No poop as yet. But he's not running a temp, his gums are a good color and he's bright and cheerful and hungry and pretty relaxed, except for wondering what the heck i was doing hanging around at that time of night. So I've left him in peace to contemplate... Barn manager who lives on the property w...

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Jingles for Potters. Sitting in the barn waiting for a visit from the poop fairy.

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Someone's feeling good!!!

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Fingers crossed for Joplin and Maia! Ponichiwa, we are in full training, which is 4x45 minute work sessions a week. Theoretically, an extra weekend day of piddling around, but we haven't done much of that this winter. Once we can get back outside, I will be making that happen as 2 days off over the ...

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Good luck at the show, Tanga! Laddie used to roll his lips back and show his teeth, pretty much all the time. Innumerable bit changes, vet and dentist visits, etc., didn't make a darn bit of difference. I eventually decided it was just a habit when he was concentrating, and I could largely ignore it...

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My oldest stepson and his wife decided to go on a great round the world adventure with their 3 kids. Planning to be traveling for at least two years. Thought they'd home school them. Neither of them are teachers. It wasn't a success. 9 months later travel plans were shelved and they landed in Englan...

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From age 6 on, my school insisted that we use a fountain pen with an italic nib for all our work. I'm left handed, so I was further saddled with a nib that had a 45 degree angle in it that was supposed to make it easier for lefties. It didn't. There is nothing easy about using a fountain pen as a le...

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Tanga, there's some technical issues with a couple of your videos, but I did just watch the PSG. Nice! You must be pleased. Shame about the tempis as the rest of those 4's were lovely. I really liked your half pirouettes and your walk pirouettes, too. Flight, that must have been the experience of a ...

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I'm sure Domestika must have a course on this!

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Reading along... I had two excellent and revealing rides at the end of last week, (He's coming through very nicely from behind at the moment, so I have to manage what's going on in front. I have to shorten my reins a bit and remember to never let that neck get any semblance of stiffness, and things ...

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The girls and I thank you all! Lots of options to look at. Breathing is much under rated by those who do not have to think about it!

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How fun is that, Flight!

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Chugging along here... the weather isn't great. It's snowing again but the temps are due to rise so we will get California's atmospheric river as rain/snow mix over the weekend. Blech. The only good thing is it might wash away the vast amount of snow sitting on the arena roof waiting to cascade down...

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Back on the never-ending search for the perfect riding bra and open to suggestions--there seem to be a zillion out there now! I have a boring breathing problem which means I spend a lot of my life feeling like I'm struggling for air (it would appear to be a mechanical thing to do with how my vocal c...

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What an utterly frameable photo, Ponichiwa. Cherish the both of them.

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Ovation Celebrity Slim Secrets. They are the bomb.

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Chisamba, your last two paragraphs resonated somewhat... I did not get chosen today for jury duty next week. (The case was far too close to my own personal experience for me to be able to be an impartial juror.) So, having cleared my schedule already, I shall spend as much of the week as I can on a ...

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