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Yay! Hope you are back in the saddle soon!

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Team up bradoon, 12 mm. Very lightly used, excellent condition. Email me for pics gwen7_22 at yahoo dot com.

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My vet has one and she is very happy with it. I used it for a PPE and then again years later for a soundness check. Having data for a comparison was very useful.

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Oh my goodness, sorry to hear it was postponed. I remember you dealing with these problems for years, not to mention the foot too, right? Many jingles that you get a new date. I hope in the future you'll be posting pics of you riding that lovely grey mare!

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My mother, almost thirty years ago. Going strong at age 66.

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Sending many good thoughts your way. My mother is a BC survivor, and you will be too.

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Thanks guys. I went with horse size and can return it it doesn't fit. I thought the leather was decent compared to things I've read. This is the competition model. I'm going to try it on today. Interesting that it comes with two different lengths on the straps that connect the bit.

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What are people's opinions on sizing? My horse is an Anglo Arab but takes a regular horse size in everything.

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So sorry to read this

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I do the same thing as rockabilly, sigh. I had one that would eat an empty grain bag if I let her, now she is picking through the stemmy first cut I'm trying to use up after having some very nice stuff earlier in the year.

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Rosie, what type of adhesive did you use?

Nice job!

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Broadband in the house.....why use up your data when there's wifi in the house? That's a dumb argument!

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I love, love my thinline reins, although they don't have stops. They are so easy to grip. I've used medical tape to mark lengths in the past if needed.

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As a chemist my opinion would be If it is plain solvent grade DMSO it probably is still fine to use or sell, honestly. DMSO has a very low freezing point. I worked at a vets office and it often froze on the truck but was still fine to use for leg sweats etc.

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Ah, yes, I know what you mean and I struggle with keeping it plugged in and close to my body. I have been really focusing on lengthening the neck while keeping the contact the last few rides and see some improvement.

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I don't have quite the neck "emergency" situation you are describing, but I am familiar with it from some Friesians in our barn! I have an Iberian WB and have some similar challenges. Here is the basic toolkit I've been taught (thank you JJ Tate, Charles de K and students of the same!): 1...

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What galopp describes is how I work my young horse. She has a somewhat shorter neck and is naturally high headed (lots of Shagya-Arabian blood). She is also super unpredictable at shows (some days it feels like I'm riding a dump truck, other days a Ferrari, with no hint ahead of time of which I'll ...

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Yes, I could write a novel about this. Provide support but OPEN THE ELBOWS FORWARD while keeping them anchored. It's sort of it's own problem but also a symptom of the whole horse. Just don't baby the contact in an effort to get the horse "light"- they just keep floating farther behind. R...

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I have an Anglo Arab who is prone to getting really short in the neck when tense. She does the Arabian spooky high head set when tense. She also has a thick throat latch area which doesn't help. We don't have this problem in non-show environments (home or at instructor's), in fact she's often too lo...

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I wonder if it's a generational thing. I say this because I have a very good friend who is 26 and when he comes over to eat steaks, he eats his steak without using cutlery. Now, I know I can cook a mean and tender steak, but still. The first time he came to eat, I turned to get him silverware and w...

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Having audited a MW clinic I think it is hard to convey some of her feelages into the written word. When she aligns people on a horse there can be miraculous results. That said, I find some of her book stuff tedious and some of it can overly stiffen you if overdo it.

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As usual, great commentary!

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Tone to me is strength, not grip. For me it also is aligning my thigh to lay across the flap in the proper orientation. As I said above, it helps me maintain a supportive seat that doesn't flop down so hard in the saddle and allows my horse to raise his back up under. "Raise the jeans zipper/w...

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Timely post for me, I've been feeling really discouraged lately with show scores at second that keep falling a little short. We are schooling all of third. Honestly showing second is a lot harder than I thought, and Iately I feel like my ability to sit the trot while maintaining a consistent connect...

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Good for you!

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News story here:

http://www.wfsb.com/story/30004492/hors ... st-hampton

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My mother sprinkles cinnamon wherever she finds them and they avoid it like the plague.

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I have the Thinline reins. Straightforward is helping me by riding Kyra while I'm on a riding hiatus. I like them except in the winter. They do get stiff then but the rest of the year I really like them. I have older hands and probably some arthritis and the Thinlines are very soft and grippy (in t...

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I use horsetech high point grass. I used to use smartpak smartvite but then they really increased the price a couple years ago.

I think they will custom order a blend for your needs. Customer service is awesome.

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Leoapp, I am so sorry. I can remember lots of stories about Apollo over the years. I felt like I "knew" him.

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Haunches in on a 20 meter circle, then spiral in slowly. We also practice pirouette canter by asking for ultra collection between the two quarterlines on a large circle.

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Love, love, love. Also love the other nature shots on your website. Especially the owls.

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Ditto Calevo. I got a pair of full custom konigs plus full custom Konig half chaps for hundreds less than buying them in the US. They have a customer rep for US orders who is very helpful.

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I have an ancient Kingston 2h without a DR and it works out fine when I'm trailering my one horse. I use a saddle rack on wheels and I bungee it into the empty side. I trailer a lot for lessons and winter indoor riding and find the setup adequate. If I trailered two horses it would be a pain to haul...

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Medium turnout and fly sheet.

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My instructor had me leg yield my mare towards the new bend so that she was practically begging to change and that helped. She also has to have a lot of activity--if the canter is too flat it happens. Sometimes I need to jazz her up before asking, though she is not at all a lazy type! She was a coun...

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If it was a deer tick, I wouldn't hestitate to get on antibiotics, esp given your past history. If it was some other tick I'd wait it out.

I got bit by a deer tick (ID'ed it from pics online) and my doctor prescribed just a day or two of tetracycline as a preventative. I had no rash.

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Not a huge fan either. I prefer eggbutts or full cheeks, single jointed. Both my horses prefer them to anything else.

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Where I teach we have a required course to go on an internship. Perhaps the college should be doing a better job of preparing students. That said, some will get all the prep in the world and still not do well. Others are great. Sometimes when I am absolutely flabbergasted by some of them, I try to r...

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My goat liked chopped hay, you could add water to it.

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I love mine. My Arab is very bouncy and I find this helps when sitting. I also can't fit a sheepskin pad because she is super wide, so those are out for us.

I have the large size for my 18" dressage saddle.

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My boss overuses quotes in her emails. And she overuses air quotes when you talk to her in person.

Sigh.

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Sorry to read about your predicament scruffy!

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My vet won't prescribe the compounded pentosan (off label use), but I've used pentaussie and pentosan eq. Pentaussie was awesome, I saw a real difference with it, not so much with pentosan eq. Pentaussie is no longer being made.

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Two items still available....

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I think the only way someone is going to let you haul in is if you are in a training program. From their point of view, why would they? Ring fees are minor and that's one more person causing chaos in an already crowded covered/indoor arena. My BO won't even let folks who normally haul in for lesson...

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I had an oberhasli that lived until about 15, she was ancient. She was the most kind soul, not at all a troublemaker type. She kept my horses company. When she died we were absolutely crushed--I had somehow gotten her through some bad winters (she had a "goat coat" foal blanket) but eventu...

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Snork, Sorry, I just saw this. I never had a Rambo blanket so I really can't say. I do think the weatherbeeta and amigo run similarly. This particular pony was 13.1, maybe 13.2. Arab welsh so fine boned. She did have a couple blankets a size larger and they fit ok, but really the 69 was best. I'd ag...

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Goldruler,
A Ph.D. In biochemistry while working? Good grief, I'm in awe. I didn't even work part time (other than TAing). Good to "see" you again.

Scruffy, love your boy!

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I found myself nodding and commiserating to most of the issues mentioned. My girl does a funky little skip change at this point-she sort of stalls and sticks a foot down in the middle of the change. Since I work alone most of the time, at this point we spend most of our time working on the pieces b...

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