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Just the fact that most experienced riders have, or have had, much more or less reactive horses pretty much blows the whole idea of rider incompetence out of the water. l And there are also degrees of "reactive." A friend had a horse I used to ride occasionally - a delightful black TB mar...

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Well.....a gal at my barn has a couple of horses. One is a mellow TWH, no issues. The other is a really cute Arab. She has gone through multiple saddles, had the chiro out, had the vet out....and the horse simply "won't go." Not even when free in the round pen. Turns on her when lungeing, ...

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Flight, he's good in an arena, and when I was still showing, he could be tense and occasionally spooky at new venues, but rarely explosive. I've tried to trail ride him since he was four. He's 15 now. Sigh. Of the seven horses i have owned, three, including Mark, were four or younger when I got them...

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blob wrote:Hot4spots, is there a buddy you can take with you? Someone with a calm, reliable trail horse?

There is a newbie dressage rider with what is supposed to be a pretty quiet Paint. We are trying to coordinate schedules.

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I am NOT going to give up on this, but I guess I'm going to have to up the meds. I gave Mark 1.75 ccs of ACE today. We started down the road and he was looky, but quiet. I followed the same route I did on last week's successful ride. I was about half way back when he started getting happy feet, but ...

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Goldenhorse - your posts and lovely pictures stirred a memory for me from long ago - the beautiful palomino Morgan, Prince of Pride. I don't suppose your fellow is one of his descendants? https://www.morganhorse.com/upload/photos/904MaryWoolverton6.14.pdf Looking at the pedigrees, I don't see any r...

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Goldenhorse - your posts and lovely pictures stirred a memory for me from long ago - the beautiful palomino Morgan, Prince of Pride. I don't suppose your fellow is one of his descendants?

https://www.morganhorse.com/upload/phot ... on6.14.pdf

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Maia has frequent moments like that. Before escalating to a one-rein stop, I throw her into a janky shoulder-in or haunches-in. It's hard -- even for her athletic self -- to rear, bolt, or buck from a lateral movement. Most days that badly executed shoulder-in or haunches-in is enough to make Maia ...

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Yeah, Chisamba, he knows (and I know) a one-rein stop. My reflexes just weren't quick enough. When he was "passaging," I thought I could keep it under control and that he would relax when he got to his friend, then the ducks "happened" and I just wasn't quick enough to bring his ...

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Well, I guess my happiness at getting an actual trail ride done without any issues was a bit premature. Sigh. I went to ride out in the pasture last night (which I have been doing for about 10 mins. at the end of every ride for the past several weeks, with no drugs, without incident). I had just sta...

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Reporting our first successful trail ride in years.......I quit while I was ahead and praised, petted and rewarded him with peppermints, a nice roll in the sandy round pen, and a shower, followed by an apple and carrot rich lunch snack. :) :) Thanks for posting. I love the way you take care of your...

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Reporting our first successful trail ride in years. Yes, he was druggd, but I have been riding him around the pasture (which runs parallel to a road and residences and is populated with deer and wild turkeys) undrugged. The last time I tried to go further, back before we changed barns, I gave him 1....

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Buckwild Breeches. They were about $120, so not bad for full seats.

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Paula - I LOVE rust breeches (you can see a pair in my jumping pic), but they only seem to be available these days thru Tailored Sportsman, which I don't like. I did Land Rover aka not-rolex, in April and a breeches retailer had a rust pair of riding tights I bought and just love. They are rust, wit...

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I get that we need ruled but I just see this as safe sport trying to act like police. Let it be a criminal charge first. Its so much bigger than horse showing. I have to agree. A more proper procedure would be a TEMPORARY suspension, an investigation (with all legal protections in place for both ac...

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I've been Tivo-ing Luther on BBC America. It's only a four-show series this time, and I think the last one in next week. Then I can sit down and binge. Love Idris Elba!

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I notice most are posting ON their horses (not just snuggling with them like my first post), so here are a few OLD pics of me on my horse(s): Top is at a horse show (hunter/jumper) at Bercut Field in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco (circa 1975). The reason we are all looking in the same direction is...

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Sure, why not? I just thought under 30 wouldn't generate as many differences. ;0)

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I'll go first. I'm 29 in the first picture, 73 in the second

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If that were one of my mares making that face? I'd be fleeing the scene. That's a horse saying "don't fuck with me!!" It's probably a Spotted Saddle Horse, and so, like the TWHs to which it is related, is amazingly tolerant. If they were not, there's be a lot more dead/injured Big Lick tr...

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Re all male equestrian statues: I do know of at least two with women. One is if Joan of Arc at the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco. The other, probably in Massachusetts, is of a young woman who was one of the riders who, like Paul Revere, rode to warn people "the British are coming.&quo...

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Only 64. Cancer, apparently a recurrence. She was a fixture when I was eventing, and then moved on to dressage. One of the youngest to ever ride for the USET, and on Bao, a TWH-Morgan, at that! She went through some troubled periods, but my personal experience of her was always of a kind and caring ...

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Yes, I will have to re-read Mark Rashid. I do have most of his books.

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Baseball....but it's a little painful these days with the way the Giants are struggling. I was happy to see GM Evans moved on, but Farhan does NOT seem to be an improvement, tho I have to acknowledge Kevin Pillar was a good acquisition. Farhan was a region's Dodger exec!! Heresy!!

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Baby steps: beastie has been at his new barn for seven weeks. After the week and a half of hysterics when led or under saddle, he has settled, and seems to be adjusting. We actually herded stray turkeys out of the arena on a few occasions. He still gives them, and the deer, a wary eye, but there hav...

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Hots4Spots, I would be livid, too! But as you probably know, something like this has happened at some point to most of us in the workplace, unless we have been incredibly blessed. Thinking of you. Would you consider job hunting in Aitken? Not totally kidding...but it's a very nice area for horse pe...

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They offered a severance, not particularly generous, but.. Bird in the hand? It's actually an employment law firm! I think I'll get a consult, but agree it may not be worth the hassle. California is an at-will employment state, and as shitty as it was, it probably doesn't rise to the level of "...

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I hate to be a whiner, but while I've vented to a few friends, I'm sitting here at home, and just going back and forth between anger and..I don't know...depression? Inertia? On Wednesday, I got fired. :shock: Been on the job for 9 years with consistently good reviews. Last review in January was good...

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H4S, I'm very careful because he has kicked me in the past. It's no idle threat, unfortunately. I had one like that. I understand your caution. He once shattered the handle of a broom I was holding when I asked him to move his very large spotted butt over. We had a serious conversation in the round...

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Mark has never kicked, but he was a master of "butt to your face" when the old BO approached with paste wormer. He had to send his wife or DIL to catch him. Drove him crazy, because once Mark was caught, he would very politely accept the wormer - no pulling away, no raised head, just "...

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75k - not in MY budget. LOL Well, as most of you know, my horse is semi-retired due to injury and while I ride five-six days a week, it's only at the walk (and boy does that make my thighs/knees ache. I know from experience that if I were trotting/cantering, I would not have this issue.) Anyway, I c...

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amygdala wrote:i'm with tarlo-- look at the horses, ignore the --all male-- riders. it's enough to make you think men just don't know how to ride

The Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco does have a statue of, I believe, Joan of Arc.

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They are ALL born trying to commit suicide. He's an Appy. He'll pull through, but I'm sure the old boy is miserable right now. Sounds from your last post that he's already perking up a bit. I'm guessing fighting infection's going to be the big part of it, but it sounds like you are on top of it. Get...

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Just to let folks know that while my horse remains his hyper-alert self, he is more or less adjusting to his new home and has been pretty quiet and rideable. A little humpy-back for the first few minutes of a ride, but settles pretty quickly. I think it also may have helped that I brought out my boo...

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Whew! After much angst, tension and frustration, not to mention a little fear, I think I have my horse back mentally. Rode last night w/o any chemical assistance. He has been and always will be, I am sure, a reactive horse, but last night I merely groomed, saddled, mounted, and rode. Though he was a...

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Just to let everyone know I survived the weekend. I gave him the paste calmer on Saturday for the farrier. He's never been a problem in that regard, but he's been so on edge, I just felt I should give him something. After that I hand walked him. He's never had issues, but in general, I prefer not to...

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Whomever recommended the herbal calmer from Smart Pak (sorry, can't remember who it was), well, I sort of ran into a wall. He already gets Quiessence, so I didn't want to double up, but I just got this month's SmartPak and certainly don't want to toss it out. I thought I could just not give him the ...

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Fortunately for me, when I dealt with a fractured coffin bone some years back, I had an absolute SAINT of a horse. He quietly recuperated in his stall and amiably strolled with me during hand walking sessions, and when he was cleared for riding, I just hopped on and started gradual rehab. He did enj...

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Yes, Sue, I've been considering using the paste (though most take up to 2 hours, at least the ones I've seen at the stores here). I hate having to ACE him, and I've kept hand walking him hoping he'll "get over it." When I ride, which hasn't happened since the move, he has ear poms and nois...

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Hots4spots, any chance there are any interesting (terrifying) creatures visiting this new barn? (wild or domestic) I'm asking in part because I've come to accept that anytime my very sensitive but usually polite mare flips out, there is a real reason (I just don't know about it). There are chickens...

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Are there other routine changes other than location? Is he being handled by more barn staff as opposed to just one person in previous situations? Is the grain/hay different? Is the amount of/kind of turn out vastly different? If he's taking much longer than normal and in general taking 3 months, th...

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My horse is still manaical after his move. He's calm enough in his stall/paddock. But I can barely lead him. I've gotten him to the point where I can walk him, in hand, fairly calmly down ONE side of the arena, then he spins around me, has to be halted, perhaps backed, then I try to lead him forward...

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Sort of a sidebar to this subject. A few years back, I knew a lady who boarded with my instructor. She had a very nice 3/4 TB, 1/4 Shire. She got her bronze medal scores on him, but by the time he was 13, his hocks were shot. At the time, construction was going on in the area of my instructor's barn...

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Ladies (mostly), I hope I'm not boring you with my tales of woe. I've been feeling so much better that I got into the barn closer to home, so Saturday, a friend went with me to pick him up. He was his normal, a little hyped, self, when I got him out of his paddock, and put him in the cross-ties, put...

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Oy! I am probably angsting here before I need to, but....so I get to move my guy to the closer to home stable. My vacation (Landrover/Rolex!!!) is set for the end of April - tickets bought, plane and event, hotel, etc. And now I find that the person who usually rides my horse when I am away (a small...

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My new favorite book: "A Gentleman In Moscow" begins right after the Bolshevik revolution. A 28 year old count is put under house arrest in an elegant hotel right across the street from the Kremlin. Now I would NEVER have picked up that book on that description, but it was my book club re...

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Thanks, Khall. I will check it out and give it a try.

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Hi, everyone. Haven't commented in a while, tho I've dropped in occasionally to keep up with everyone. So....since December my guy has been at my old trainer's barn, 22 miles from where I used to keep him (add on another 9 miles each way to home.) A bit of a drag in terms of truck/gas consumption, p...

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Looking forward to the third season of Victoria starting on PBS Sunday. Otherwise, been watching a lot on The Science Channel. I find "Mysteries of the Abandoned" fascinating. (Strange and often huge structures that are rotting in place, obsolete, etc.) Sadly funny was a tunnel bored throu...

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Ugh, Heddy. there's NOTHING more frustrating than a horse that won't get on the damned trailer. Good luck. I discovered that I do not have the skills or patience to conquer it, but I've found a magician who can indeed teach anything to go anywhere, thank goodness! Back in the day, I had a friend (w...

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