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kande50

The height bothers me now being that far from the ground. :oops: I got used to the extra height and don't really notice it, anymore. I had a 15.2 hand horse in my 30's and 40's, then a 16.2 hand one in my early 50's, and now a 17 hand one in my 60's. With luck I'll still be riding this one when I'm...

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All of the ones I ride on trail know where the next grass/treat break will be and are eager to get there. I am fairly strict about leaving the grass though, because I really don't like it when I say it's time to go and they ignore me because they're trying to stuff more in. I also don't tolerate any...

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Nevertheless, it is quite annoying that one has to have "strategies", worry and be uncomfortable about how to inform the clinician that I expect a full lesson and not the cut short one, instead of just enjoying the clinic. We don't have to have strategies, because we always have the optio...

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musical comedy wrote:53 is not a senior imo. I guess to a 20 year old, it might be.

Or to a 30 or 40 year old!

The older I get the more I can't believe how much I was willing and able to do 5, 10, 15, 20 years ago.

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The other trick I learned for getting better hoof photos is to take high resolution pix from further way and then crop them, as that helps minimize any distortion of the hoof due to camera angle.

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I still feel 30 in my mind and heart but I'm a bit older than that (53 this month). I just wondered what a senior rider is, is the definition age. Experience, health or what? Maybe if you feel senior then you're senior enough to be considered a senior rider? Some think they reach senior status when...

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Argument that "the horse did something good so we finish early" does not appeal to me either. What if the horse did something good after 20 min and the lesson was to be 60 min. Do you cut it short and accept fee for the whole lesson? Do you cut is short and cut your fee? Why instead of cu...

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Refuse to pull back. I wouldn't even attempt to canter until he was calm at walk and trot throughout all figures and transitions, and then I'd ease him off into canter and as soon as he tried to speed up I'd just very calmly and smoothly steer him onto a circle, and stay on the circle until I could ...

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They look fine to me. If she doesn't need the extra hoof I'd probably trim them shorter, although I can't really tell all that much about the trim without bottom and side views. It doesn't look like the pix were taken at the same time, as the first pic looks like a shorter hoof to me, and the second...

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I especially hate being in that situation when it's my horse and I can see things unraveling and don't feel free to say anything. If it's not my horse I know it's none of my business and can only watch, but when I've seen the same thing happen before so can see where it may be headed, and would like...

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Backyarder3 wrote:I was going to clip her fetlocks but she has huge ergots!

I cut chestnuts and ergots off when they get too long, because I don't want them to get caught on something and tear off.

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Today was a "carry the whip" day and Emma was good. I got thirty minutes in and even did some trotting. It was fairly collected work and it felt very nice. At first, I couldn't get more than a 20m circle at trot before she got tense and against the bit. My response was to talk to her and ...

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Ladies is like that about sounds outside the indoor. I'm sure their hearing, which is so much more acute than ours, can identify that it's the damned tractor that they see and hear every day, so I do wonder sometimes if it is fear or avoidance. If you mean deliberate avoidance to get out of work or...

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Very sorry to hear, Khali. One of my friends and riding buddies just lost one of hers to colic last night, too.

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Stir fry again, and I put fish in it this time. Not sure the dh liked it, but I thought it was very good.

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Shirrine wrote:My very first ride back.

Now *that* is a pleasant picture!

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Perhaps, in my case, because I thought the tone was nasty and uncalled for, and the person it was aimed at vulnerable after a very difficult health year. So you assumed that I too, knew who the poster was and what was going on in her personal life? Problem is, I make an effort to read posts without...

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And Ryeissa is right,why be offended by someone who has a completely different philosophy than the one your following yourself? If you don't care for the way kande rides, why give a *beep* about what she thinks?! Really! It must be obvious by now that some (a lot) of my ideas don't conform, so why ...

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I respectfully disagree. I've read that post at a few times I really don't think it's that bad. Maybe what I should have said instead of stressing that it was just my opinion, is that I don't watch a lot of video footage of people riding horses anymore, unless the work seems to be easy for the hors...

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So now you think my pony needs protection? Yes, I think he could use a little. Not nearly as much as many horses could use, but some. Maybe you should just leave it because the more you are saying the more ignorance you are showing. You do understand that people resort to personal attacks (which co...

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This isn't your thread, so please just be done and let's get this back to the positive place we have established over the last year, ok? So now you want to be the moderator, too? So many moderator wannabes. You do get that the best way to shut someone up is to ignore them, don't you, and that passi...

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Your videos show a very unique riding style, and I know you are ok with that but Shrinne has chosen a different route and needs to be respected. Y'know how Aspergers/Autistic people often seem to think they understand animals better than the more socially skilled....? I make no claims to being able...

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i dunno-- i think being ridden or driven is hard on them-- that's why they have to TRAINED to accept all the stuff we 'ask' of them... on the othe hand, my 2 retired guys seem to miss having a job. so i guess It Depends :mrgreen: What they'd probably like is an easy job with lots of treats. :-) I t...

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Looks very good. And yes, I use the collateral grooves as a guide, too. I trim with nippers though, so like to take the walls down to where I want them on the first bite (so I don't have to rasp much), so use both the sole and the collateral grooves as guides.

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and it will probably be rewarded in the show ring That made me laugh, even though it's probably not funny because riding horses that way may be much harder on them. Or maybe it isn't that much harder on them and we just think it must be because that's not the way the rules say it should be done?

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It really is pointless, understandable but pointless, to continue to engage with Kande. There will be no moving her from her perception once it was set. Everything that has come after is just rationalization/justification, to her. So Shirrine, even if you're interested in the discussion you really ...

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Oh as for the spurring, I just watched the vid of my Instructor riding him and the only way he could have been spurring is if he lifted his heal which he did not do. An occasional touch but no way is he spurring him. I go to him because he is light on a horse especially with youngsters. I wasn't re...

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When he is light he is lovely, when he isn't he he isn't like any horse. We were working on lightness. It is a shame I got none of his trot work which is as light as you can wish. Canter is a work in progress. To make the assumptions you have mad and still make despite being told otherwise then it ...

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If anyone thinks this pony is pounded you couldn't be futher from the truth. I suffer from extreme fatigue which means that he does not get ridden everyday and at the most 1/2 with breaks. A once in a blue moon being expected to work will not hurt him. I think that's probably true, although I also ...

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In my opinion, if you wouldn't say it in person to one of your friends or peers, you shouldn't say it online. . I think it's a little different online because it's so easy to block others, which frees posters up to say what they really think because it puts the responsibility to censor free speech ...

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As most here know, my previous posting style was to tell it like I think it is. I used to think like you Kande, that maybe by being brutally honest, things would improve for the horse's sake. That's unlikely to happen. That's especially not what this small group of comrades appreciate. They want th...

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It is my emphatic belief that you harm your horse a lot more with your inability to allow him to engage and stretch and elasticise than Shirrines old school prep for Pony rail classes. JMHO, ( well possibly not humble) JMO. The reason I think that if you're right and I do ride my horse upside down ...

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I actually think, Kande, your comments were nasty without being helpful. Also obviously somewhat untruthful. Clearly you watched more than a few seconds from your detailed and repeated commentary. Once you start nasty its hard to back pedal to pretending to be helpful. Anyone can take comments any ...

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Yep he is not perfect, he has just started this sort of work and being Lewyn he has an opinion about it but I still don't understand your horror, please explain. [/quote] Absolutely no horror, and I too, love his canter. He looks like such a beautiful, cooperative, sweet pony who wants nothing more...

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Thanks for taking me down a few notches. :( The intent was not to take you down a few notches, but rather to possibly inspire you to think about what your pony's experiences may be like. If you're confident that he's fine and that the kind of work you're doing is fair to him, then those who questio...

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I actually preferred the way he was going for you, imho, ( and i often disagree with Kande, so she should expect it) his tail was quite relaxed and stretched when you rode him,) I think his topline was a little more elastic and he was happier in his work. I actually thought he was struggling with t...

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Tuddy wrote:
I was pretty proud of how brave he was.

One good thing about already knowing what could happen, is that when it doesn't happen we can truly appreciate the progress they're making!

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Kande, sorry you are feeling low, but perhaps it would be better to not take it out on your fellow DDB's. I considered saying nothing and just scrolling on by, but then decided that it's better to say something in hopes that someone will step back and re-evaluate what's going on from their horse's ...

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First off, I want to say that he's a beautiful pony. Second, I couldn't watch either video past the first few seconds because they weren't pleasant for me to watch. Maybe they got better later on, but if you don't think that your pony has any issues with the way he's being ridden then you need to ge...

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I ask because I get way too ambitious myself (even at my old age!) and I have to continually remind myself to relax. I think one of the big challenges in training is finding a good balance between too much too soon vs stagnation. I think the way you're working on it makes a lot of sense, because if...

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I've been riding donkeys and mules for decades now, so am used to their preoccupation with footing (donkeys are usually much worse about it than mules). So when my horse spooks at stripes on the footing I'm always surprised when he'll actually take another look and then walk over it, because when a ...

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2. His back is absolutely locked up and cold. The main contributing reason he piled me. The lady working on him is also a massage therapist but Tuddy didn't even want to be touched let alone worked on in the back area. Everywhere else, just not the back. A friend, who is a massage therapist, has a ...

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I tell my riders that if a horse is repeating a behavior, you have some how given them a lollipop for the wrong thing. ( i tell the story about how if a teacher gave a lollipop to a kid ever time he jumped up and yelled out, would the kid learn to sit and do his work) first time is an accident, sec...

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Yea, sorry, I don't think Durasole is carried locally, even at the farrier supply up in Burlington, WI. It was developed by a farrier in TX years ago and for a while, he only sold to farriers. It's getting more widespread now, though. Tom Stovall. He used to post on rec.eq and horseshoes.com a few ...

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You can always fit her out with hoof boots, and can even put ice calks in them so that you can ride her out all winter. What I like about the boots is that I can ride mine barefoot a lot more--and that I don't have to deal with farrier appointments.

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Ariel is now barefoot and fingers crossed she doesn't get sore. I want her barefoot for the winter. But I'm not one of those goofy owners who takes it as a personal insult if my horse needs shoes. You can always fit her out in boots if she does. You can even add ice calks and ride out all winter.

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I agree about behind the bit, I tend to get mine just slightly behind the vertical and I see it later in vids/photos but at the time of riding, don't notice it happening. Above the bit seems to correct itself in a way. I think it does too, because as the work encourages the horse to collect more an...

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My favourite part: The article mentions one young test subject in the group named Blue, who seemed to simply enjoy putting the humans to work; he always selected the symbol to have his blanketing status changed and needed some extra temperature conditioning so that he would understand that this for...

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Thanks for the thoughts. Your last comment resonated with me. I think the main problem is my perception. I knew Emma was a project when I bought her but sometimes she feels so good that I think I am much further along with her than I actually am. Then something happens that doesn't feel so good and...

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I continued to ride and was satisfied that she was trying to work with me, but unsatisfied that after a year she still threatened me (hump in the back).And I am worried about the point Chisamba brings up...by avoiding things that cause her discomfort am I shrinking her into a tiny bubble. I think t...

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