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The vet said I could put Emma on Previcox for her sore stifles. He also said injecting the stifle was an option. I feel that that would just be masking the symptom though, and I am uncomfortable doing that. How would I know that I wasn't making the problem worse? So after thinking about it, I will ...

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To clarify what I wrote earlier. There are doctors that are Medicare Participating Doctors and Medicare Non-Participating Doctors. Participating Doctors "ACCEPT ASSIGNMENT". That means they accept the low amount that Medicare pays. The Non-Participating Doctors still accept Medicare (i.e. ...

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I have a Plan F and it covers everything not covered by Medicare. That includes copays, the 20%, plus anything Medicare doesn't cover. I don't currently have a lot of medical bills and what I am paying for my gap insurance IS probably more than it is paying currently. However, my father died last y...

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Here's my problem/question. The company I retired from gives me $2700/year to use for Medical/Dental. The catch is that I have to buy at least one thing through the company that handles this, which is AON Hewitt. I bought a Medigap Plan G through them. It's probably $20 a month more than if I were t...

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It only makes sense that horses are more forward and alert outside. What natural inclination would they have to go forward inside, only to meet a wall. That is where training comes in. They learn to respect the aids and go forward (or back) when requested. A lot of times people that school outdoors ...

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Kimba looks nice and 'up' on that photo. Don't worry about your mouth. Lots of riders do that. George Williams used to it. What happened in your second session that upset Kimba? Did you pick up on any tips for advancing her? Anything that would help you with your upcoming show? Was this clinician in...

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Ok, thanks. But... If your horse is too poll low, it is very hard to activate the hind leg and power them up. So step one, bring up the poll . When riding your horse in a decent balance (not with the poll low), you will also experience the poll coming higher when you get after the hind leg to be mor...

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I'm just wondering if anyone here has a Medigap policy.

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I definitely feel much safer staying in the arena, but riding out seriously revitalizes the ring work for us, and makes it fun for Bliss, and much easier for me. So it's a risk I'm willing to take. Also, the riding out is making both of us MUCH braver, and is building our trust on each other the wa...

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I know bad stuff can happen in an enclosed area, but this is the kind of thing I fear most about riding out. When horses get scared, they lose their minds.

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Whew! Good news on the spine. Did he xray the stifle?
Did you ask him about how you should proceed with work for her and what the prognosis was for improvement?

If you had done the PPE and this stuff was found, would you still have proceeded with the sale?

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You've got 136 views and only a couple posts. These are excellent notes with lots to helpful tips for every kind of horse and rider.

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More Notes from Jeremy Steinberg Clinic Suggestions for Different Types of Horses and Training Challenges Cob-Type Horse with Up-Down Hind Leg This kind of hind leg can look very active, but we need to look at what kind of activity it is doing! With this sort of conformation, the hind can have a te...

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I have found the work is EASIER- no second level wall now--- I am not sitting everything yet-- that will be hard for me. I just do not understand this at all. How can you say 2nd level work is 'easier' when you aren't sitting? You have to sit the mediums in 2nd level. I think it's highly unlikely a...

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Wishing Emma a clean bill of health tomorrow.

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That said, he also emphasized that in some cases, you need to, for example, ride a horse a bit deeper through transitions to teach them not to brace (ex. walk-canter). But once in canter, ride them up. Ride a bit deep in up or down transition? I hope it was up transition. I say this because my hors...

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Thank you Piedmont for superb notes. Do you still have the notes you wrote up from a JJ Tate clinic? Those were good notes. I made some comments/questions in blue. On Connection with a Difficult to Connect Horse Connection is the first point of access for improving gait quality. Remember, dressage ...

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The vet that will be seeing Emma is new to the clinic. In fact, he bought it. He has a reputation for being very thorough and also very caring. I don't have any other questions for the him but will think about it. Any thoughts? The clinic is now associated with two other clinics each with its own s...

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At this point, I've come to love that point in the stride, and a majority of what I post are the pics taken in mid stride at the trot because there is little that can be hidden at that point. In the canter, I have started to favor the uphill moment with one hindleg grounded, again, there is little ...

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Being an eggbeater is about moving straight from the shoulder and/or lower joints (or not), but interesting the lack of shoulder freedom is apparent after first blush, and it cause a horse to lift hind feet higher; and even a horse which is seeming open can be down hill/over tempo/etc. Photos are w...

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I worked both Emma and Rocky on the Parelli program again today. Plus I longed Rocky. My ribs are still too sore to ride. Gee whiz, you must have cracked a rib. Do try wrapping yourself with elastic bandage. Ride Rocky, and don't take a chance on Emma until you are healed. Emma was sore from gettin...

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I agree with redsoxluvr. If you are going to get X-rays, I'd get them on the front, just to make sure there is no ringbone starting. Hocks, they are maintainable.

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This doesn't warrant a discussion, but I've been thinking about it for a while and decided to just put it down here. It may fall under the category of a vent. Don't read too much into it. We all know that a photo is just a moment in time. That goes without saying. It's nice to share photos and I'm s...

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MC - 200 x 80 METERS?? I can't even imagine what that would be like. Want to post some pics for us? :D How many days a week do you ride usually? Do you work all over the arena or in certain parts of it? Well, duh...that was obviously a mistake. I meant feet. It was sized so that I could put up a st...

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I ride exclusively in the indoor. I don't like hacking out. My horse has 24/7 freedom to roam fields or stall and I don't find anything wrong with asking a horse to work for 1 hour in a ring. That said, my ring is 200x80m, so not too confining. None of the dressage trainers I've ridden with work out...

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Maybe your horse was trained in such a way that the contact became part of the aid for go? It is perfectly possible to train horses that way, so that part of, or even the entire aid for go requires picking up the contact. I've ridden horses that are trained that way and I found that I could put all...

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So, "badgering" was probably not the right word to use. I just think of how my parents use to tell us as kids to STOP BADGERING. I always thought of it as not bullying, but asking for something over and over and over...in that way, it isn't such a bad thing, just an annoying habit, and no...

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I longed Rocky yesterday and played around with keeping her focused on me. I enjoyed it and I think she did, too. She is a hot pony. Her dam sire is a well known QH around here, Colonel Freckles. He is known for producing hot horses with speed and that's what Rocky's breeder is all about. Rocky's b...

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i find it interesting that people keep posting pictures of horses in extended trot, touting that the elbow should be forward. Of course it is forward in extended gaits. Well, I just post the first ones I find. I can find many of all the bnt's with hands forward and even SRS people. Here's one of Ca...

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Tsavo wrote:I think if Kande felt a horse correctly in the bridal, she would find it impossible to describe that in the usual terms she uses. I would describe it as a teeming quantum flux with negative mass.

I like Kande A LOT. However, I do not think she has ever felt correct contact.

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"Short reins win medals." Upthread, galopp said something about similarity to automatic releases in jumping. I thought that was a genius comment. For me, the more forward my hand in physical space, the more I push my hand forward forward and the less chance of backward hand. It is counter...

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I think it's because their horses aren't actually collected, because a collected horse (even one that isn't as flexible and fluid as he could be) is very easy to sit. In fact, on the rare occasions when I've sat on horses who could collect, I just naturally chose to sit because the balance just see...

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Even Carl is critical of Charlotte arm. It is not considered the part of her riding to emulate. She rides well despite it not because of it. Jmho. He's supposed to be some kind of authority? He mostly always rides with an arched back and tipped pelvis. http://www.dressage-news.com/wp-content/upload...

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What is interesting that in reality a vertical upper arm does have the elbow behind the hip, not over it (as we are told). I agree. It is that that gives very little with the seat incredible effect for very little action. When the upper arms are ifV, then the rider ends up using more and more body ...

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One of my problems with her is that I can't just be happy when she give me 15 minutes of good, uphill(uphill for a lower level horse, that is) work and I end up nagging her. That's a fault of mine as well, but I'm trying hard to correct it. I've said so many times before that ignorance is bliss. My...

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It looks like he has a high enough neck set though, so that helps. But yes, downhill does present its challenges. Yes, he has a good neck set on high enough on the shoulders. OTOH, whenever anything is difficult to sustain it does provide a much better workout for the rider, too. True. When I was r...

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What he would do at the canter with looped reins is drop his head down low, get strung out, and probably stop from loss of balance. What about at the walk and trot? Maybe your horse was trained in such a way that the contact became part of the aid for go? It is perfectly possible to train horses th...

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Duh. Yes I meant upper arm. I will go and edit.

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I think that the ability to wtc on a loose rein is a good test of whether or not the horse is calm enough I cannot ride my horse canter on a loose rein. Maybe one of those riders with a strong core could, but I'll never know. He does not want to carry naturally. He never did, but now with age it is...

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Ditto stuff that Dresseur and Tsavo wrote. Too many things to quote. When a trainer tells a rider to shorten the reins, putting on the leg/seat aids will only work if the rider understands connection and what they are looking for AND if the horse is prepared enough physically to accept the aids. If ...

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1. I. Klimke states in a recent DT that she only walks on the hills and only canters on flat good footing. So people doing trot and canter on hills seem to be wildly overdoing it, yes? Truth be told, I don't know. I only know what I've read and what I have done or will do. I have read by many sourc...

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But early on a test of correct contact is asking for mobilization of the jaw, and lightly giving the outside (and then both) reins and seeing if the horse will go forward/down/outward and follow the hand. Not just an early on test, but a test later on as well. Not only test whether the horse can go...

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MC I totally disagree with you about one handed riding not being a good test of correct work. If it was not then why does the SRS do the exhibition of riding with one hand on the curb only? It shows the problems in connection and the horse's understanding of the rein aids and seat aids. Western rid...

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Kande, one doesn't need to take a horse to a clinic for most things unless they live out in the boondocks. I'm lucky I'm in a horse area. All vets here have the digital X-ray machine and ultrasound in their truck. A bone scan or MRI, yes, you'd need to go to a clinic. I even hate to go to the clinic...

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Here is where the reluctance to investigate further comes from: I don't want to hear bad news, but that is NO EXCUSE. This may surprise you, but I am like that too! I should lunge every now and then to see how my horse is going, but I don't want to know. I do want to know, but I don't want to know....

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Trainer thought the problem was her back, owner thought it was her hocks. I talked at length with the vet who happens to my vet, too. He said he could find nothing physically wrong. Not back, not hocks. I won't go into more detail here. That vet still sees her on a regular basis. A couple more ques...

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Kande I do not think there is anything at all in that test to indicate the mare was pushed too hard. MC - you made some excellent observations that make sense. I agree that something may have happened in those years off and could be the reason for this behavior. Emma looks like a sweet horse and lov...

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My understanding, which may be wrong, is that you feel the position on the first pic (my mare Rocky when she was a baby) is wrong for any situation. If that is what you think, then how would you change the first pic? Just take up the slack in the rein? No, not at all. You did not give any kind of b...

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If it was me I'd go back to the beginning, as if I was just starting her, and retrain her with the emphasis on calm. You may not get very far (by some measures) because she could be suffering from a form of horsie ptsd from her previous life, or physical issues. Why would you do this rather than ge...

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I find riding with one hand is my best test for how correct the horse is. Riding with one hand is beneficial for several things. It is not a good test for connection though. Look at the western riders. They ride with one hand on loopy reins and can even make figures that way, riding off their seat ...

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