Oh, no SF, what a shitshow!
Poot Annabelle. I hope the trainer is showing due contrition also.
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- Tue Jun 27, 2023 3:39 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
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- Mon Jun 26, 2023 9:02 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
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Re: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
At least your potential buyer recognized her limitations before she got in over her head. My dear 80 year old 4'11" friend bought herself a new horse in the Spring. Its not working out, and I feel so badly for her and the horse, TBH. Summer arrived yesterday. I've just got back in from a broili...
- Sat Jun 24, 2023 4:52 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
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Re: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
Yikes, Exvet! And yes, I see safety stirrups being a purchase in my not too distant future. A lovely week of riding post-show here. Much productive work on getting in front of my leg at all gaits. Its hard work for both of us, my body is happy to take the weekend off and I suspect he's feeling the s...
- Mon Jun 19, 2023 7:45 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
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- Mon Jun 19, 2023 7:42 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
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Re: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
Lovely day for a horse show!
- Mon Jun 19, 2023 7:09 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
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Re: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
Good Monday morning all! If you take my riding out of it, the show was a roaring success... The weather turned perfect, cool and sunny, and the rings had dried out just right overnight. It turns out, Potters really likes to go to a show. He happily went to sleep on the cross ties while I braided him...
- Fri Jun 16, 2023 1:15 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
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It just bucketed down with rain all night and all day until about 2pm. Then we went over to the showgrounds to have a practice ride in condensed mud soup. At least it wasn't slippery. We got back to the barn looking like we'd been hunting in Ireland. Cleaned horses, cleaned tack, and now at 7pm I've...
- Tue Jun 13, 2023 9:34 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
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Re: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
Ah, I hadn't realized Annabelle had hit her limit so hard, SF. Yes, I do agree there is no joy in banging a square peg into a round hole. And I'm impressed with how you've persevered with Tesla. She has been a tough nut, to be sure. I also forget that everyone is younger than I am and that really ma...
- Sun Jun 11, 2023 3:27 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
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Re: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
Forgive me SF, if I overstep here... I'm half a bottle of wine into a Saturday evening.
I think you should keep.sweet Annabelle and enjoy her. It sounds like you are banging your head against a brick wall with Tesla.
Susan, jingles for your mom. That's worrying.
I think you should keep.sweet Annabelle and enjoy her. It sounds like you are banging your head against a brick wall with Tesla.
Susan, jingles for your mom. That's worrying.
- Thu Jun 08, 2023 11:07 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
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Re: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
Mischief managed... they'd sent the confirmation to Justin, not to me who signs the checks, so to speak. I had an excellent ride today, which I did not deserve as I discovered when I got off that I'd fastened the cavesson over the cheekpiece on the right side. Duh. I thought he felt a bit unresponsi...
- Thu Jun 08, 2023 3:31 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
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Re: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
Of course, EqEntries have sodded up my entries for the show next weekend. I'm sure it will get sorted out, but really...
- Wed Jun 07, 2023 8:48 pm
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: We’re going to a show! **UPDATE!!**
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Re: We’re going to a show! **UPDATE!!**
Well done!
Potters and I are going to our first show in 8 days... you are making me feel better!
Potters and I are going to our first show in 8 days... you are making me feel better!
- Mon Jun 05, 2023 11:29 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
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Re: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
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...
- Sat Jun 03, 2023 2:25 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
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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...
- Thu Jun 01, 2023 1:01 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
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A bit of Potters eye candy
- Thu Jun 01, 2023 12:54 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
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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...
- Sun May 28, 2023 4:06 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
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Re: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
Lovely picture SF. I like Annabelle!
- Sat May 27, 2023 3:35 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
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Re: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
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 ...
- Fri May 26, 2023 2:54 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
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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 ...
- Wed May 24, 2023 10:59 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
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Re: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
Sometimes boring news is good news, Chisamba!
Just chugging along here. Today is our "day off" so I get to do office work
Just chugging along here. Today is our "day off" so I get to do office work
- Sat May 20, 2023 12:29 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
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Re: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
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'...
- Mon May 15, 2023 2:20 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
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Re: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
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.
- Mon May 15, 2023 2:18 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
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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...
- Sat May 13, 2023 12:27 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
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Re: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
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...
- Tue May 09, 2023 3:35 am
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: Coexistence
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Re: Coexistence
Cowbird?
Somewhere i have a picture of one of mine with a row of them down his back.
Somewhere i have a picture of one of mine with a row of them down his back.
- Tue May 09, 2023 1:09 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
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Re: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
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...
- Sat May 06, 2023 10:41 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
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Don't expect the weather to be decent here, SF.
- Thu May 04, 2023 7:23 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Things I used to totally believe that are just not true
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Re: Things I used to totally believe that are just not true
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.)
- Thu May 04, 2023 7:11 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
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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...
- Mon May 01, 2023 10:10 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
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Re: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
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...
- Mon May 01, 2023 9:51 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
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Re: March (and April) of Progress
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...
- Thu Apr 27, 2023 11:25 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
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Re: March (and April) of Progress
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...
- Tue Apr 25, 2023 1:14 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
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Re: March (and April) of Progress
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 ...
- Mon Apr 24, 2023 12:55 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
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Re: March (and April) of Progress
I'm sorry Chisamba. What a tough few days.
- Sat Apr 22, 2023 1:17 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
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Re: March (and April) of Progress
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...
- Fri Apr 21, 2023 1:20 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
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Re: March (and April) of Progress
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...
- Wed Apr 19, 2023 4:40 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
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Re: March (and April) of Progress
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...
- Tue Apr 18, 2023 11:46 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
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Re: March (and April) of Progress
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...
- Sat Apr 15, 2023 3:12 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
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Re: March (and April) of Progress
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...
- Fri Apr 14, 2023 10:55 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
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Re: March (and April) of Progress
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.
Well I got first tracks of the year in the outdoor arena today. It was wonderful. Potters is such a happy boy outside.
- Sat Apr 08, 2023 5:42 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
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Re: March (and April) of Progress
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...
- Sat Apr 08, 2023 5:22 pm
- Forum: Veterinary, Nutrition, Grooming & Farrier Questions
- Topic: Suspensory Injury
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Re: Suspensory Injury
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 ...
- Fri Apr 07, 2023 1:12 am
- Forum: Veterinary, Nutrition, Grooming & Farrier Questions
- Topic: Suspensory Injury
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Re: Suspensory Injury
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.
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.
- Thu Apr 06, 2023 2:43 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
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Re: March (and April) of Progress
Midnight poop and looking pretty normal today but will keep a close eye on him.
Horses...
Horses...
- Thu Apr 06, 2023 3:49 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
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Re: March (and April) of Progress
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...
- Thu Apr 06, 2023 1:53 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
- Replies: 221
- Views: 265576
Re: March (and April) of Progress
Jingles for Potters. Sitting in the barn waiting for a visit from the poop fairy.
- Wed Apr 05, 2023 5:39 am
- Forum: Veterinary, Nutrition, Grooming & Farrier Questions
- Topic: Piggy's laminitis journey
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- Views: 19699
Re: Piggy's laminitis journey
Someone's feeling good!!!
- Wed Apr 05, 2023 1:29 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
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- Views: 265576
Re: March (and April) of Progress
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 ...
- Fri Mar 31, 2023 11:05 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
- Replies: 221
- Views: 265576
Re: March (and April) of Progress
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...
- Fri Mar 31, 2023 3:55 pm
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: Home schooling
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2287
Re: Home schooling
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...