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scruffy I see the draft in the mare for sure, just liked her canter better than the palomino's canter. Loved the pally's trot. Would you be interested in an Iberian? I ran across a buckskin Lusitano that has some nice movement, young but looked very sensible.

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RF low or high ringbone or both? Yes high ringbone can fuse on it's own. Best to fuse by surgery (if needed) than alcohol injection which is extremely painful to the horse according to a couple of vets I know. It sounds like though he has quite a bit going on in there. Shoes may help some but does t...

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I would add into this discussion that only through correctly applied exercises like lateral work, skipping gait transitions etc can a horse develop the strength and flexibility (unless uber talented) to be in self carriage and light and active and again I do agree with MC here it is horse dependent ...

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I'm so sorry about Farley. Gentle hugs for you.

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exvet way cool for Junior! Is he still intact? Cross my fingers he minds his manners at the show! I had thought about taking my filly when I go to just a schooling show to hang out when I take Rip but then decided better not. At least not this time.

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SF yes exactly. So maybe instead of IFOTL we should say responsive to the "driving" or activation aids? The horse must be responsive and attentive (or like I had said with Rip dialed in) but not necessarily running off their legs (though some we do need to go over tempo at times to get tha...

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I do think a bit differently on IFOTL but agree on contact with the same thoughts as SF it is horse dependent and can be ride dependent! From day to day. As for IFOTL, hmm for me I look to balance of the horse first and foremost. Sending a horse who is already on their forehand more forward is not t...

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She's Cute!! So many on the new horse party bus!! Congratulations:)

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KathyK I love that horse! Such expression yet not the tension I see with the manufactured trots (which I am not fond of). I really enjoyed watching that test, spectacular horse with a lovely quiet rider.

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Xan not sure what you budget is or how young you would look at and since Ponichiwa has found her golden boy, LOOK at this filly!! https://www.facebook.com/kathryn.schiess/media_set?set=a.10155618774820869&type=3&fb_dtsg_ag=AdzU-mErKzF5PhUO14JhafDLcHr9lyg7ftKqiEZIwMFmyw%3AAdxdHl0IbgqXcCLrbcNh...

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Oh yeah for Tesla SF!! She is a pretty girl:) Nice mover too. Jingles for Annabelle that she comes right. Glad you are able to ride Kyra though. Glad you are back in the saddle again Rosie! Rip is really dialed in for me these days. Asking the questions and he is quietly and quickly coming up with t...

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I cannot get tight with my thighs on Rip. I've learned how to keep the hip relaxed and the thigh draped but not tight and use the lower leg/calf for energy when needed. There is a movement to the seat to follow the canter, shorter hip action with collection and a longer movement with lengthenings. M...

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Usually vets will geld in the field/on the farm. This guy is pretty well endowed, especially for such a young stallion. Don't know if that will have any bearing on how it is done. Quite a few years ago I had a young WB stallion as endowed as this guy is, vet gelded him at the farm, found omasom arou...

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Demi so sorry for the bad news with Rocky. I swear I sometimes feel we take a big step forward only to have to take 2 steps back. I hope the rehab goes well. Hot4spots, I agree with Demi, try both and see which one you click with. Learning from a trainer is such a personal thing IMO. What works for ...

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You got your golden horse!! Excellent that he was ok with the surcingle. It is not a bad thing he did not have much done with him, now you have a clean slate to work with. You know, if he does not end up being your regular dressage horse he would probably clean up in Western Dressage!

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Rye don't bother. Tsavo is firm in her convictions, which is her prerogative. I just feel that if there is modalities out there to help my horse to keep working and progressing I am willing to put the $ out for them. From supplements, to chiro/acupuncture, to adequan and sometimes including joint in...

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Ranch bred are the BEST! They often come in fun colors (blue roan being my favorite) and usually have a head full of sense. Congratulations!! Have fun with Queso.

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Well yeah!! I'm glad you checked again. I knew the frosting is common in the lighter buckskins like ours, not so much with the darker ones but I have seen it.

I really need to register my filly, she can be with ILAHA I just have not. Stupid not to.

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Rye Tsavo does not believe in chiro or acupuncture. Thinks it's all woo woo and a waste of money along with injections, joint supplements.

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I did think buttermilk buckskins have the silver highlights called frosting (my buttermilk buckskin has them). Here is my LusoX buttermilk buckskin with frosting in her mane and tail https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1786398404732194&set=pb.100000861553573.-2207520000.1534729469.&type=...

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What a beautiful kind eye she has! Congratulations on how she has turned out, great job. So sorry for your loss though. Glad you had this young one to turn to.

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Tsavo I agree for the most part, I do think you can teach the horse a good bit from the ground that does translate very well US for the horse with a rider who knows what they are doing all the way up to and including much of the GP movements. Does it mean that would translate into riding a GP test s...

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Tsavo where on earth did you come up with we were going to teach this mare GP in hand? For me, in hand work compliments the ridden work. Specifically with this mare it is making her easier to ride as evidence with just the bit of US work we have done with her and her owner recently. We are using lun...

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cb LOVE IT!!! I love a good ASB. I've known some very nice ones. I would have one in a minute to ride and train. Karen Rohlf has 2 that she has trained on up. To me they are the American version of an Iberian. BTW I have loved your horse since when you first got him off the string, he very much remi...

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Well around here trainers are very expensive and hard to find that you would trust. Owner almost sent her back to where she got her from (not a good place, though shows FEI dressage, mare was thin and feet were BAD which is why she was lame, yes she was lame when she got here) to sell her, then back...

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You can always double lunge (run a second line from outside caveson/bit, behind the HQs to handler to control the drift of the HQs. MC he is doing the same in the trot as well, inside stepping almost to inside of the front hoof. Is he doing this to stay out of his own way because he is going forward...

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I have a boarder who last year had a bad fall off her mare (TB/Perch that knocked her out cracked her pelvis). They are so mismatched it is not even funny and the owner knows it but is kind of stuck at this point. Bought her as a 5 yr old, older AA rerider. Mare is a moose, owner is a tiny with not ...

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Actually I have seen it often when a horse is lame on one front leg. Block that leg and the horse goes lame on the other front leg. Blocks are a good tool for diagnosing lameness and showing up ones you did not know about! Tsavo you keep saying work resolved the limp, but was your horse not is work ...

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Tsavo I did not relate the two lamenesses. They could be related they might not be, having diagnostics done would help pin point the hind end issue. There is such a thing as compensatory lameness, I've witnessed it myself when I had front feet lameness in my OTTB geld years ago. What I was asking wa...

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Not my horse but one I've known since he was 4, now in his late 20's. He in his early 20's went from pasture pet to schoolmaster to someone I know. For 2/3 yrs he did well, but he started having lameness issues LF from ringbone. Pretty significant high ringbone. So she drastically reduced his worklo...

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Barbara Caido from DP Saddlery who runs the company in the US (she is German) I know personally and she is only about 1 1/2 hours from my farm:) I bought my Christ bareback pad from her and my latest soft caveson (I had one but it got messed up by my boarder's horse) I'm seriously interested in the ...

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Dresseur yes, and that is one of my biggest beefs about SRs and their ilk and how often they are incorrectly used.

Another question: do any of you or have any of you used a chambon while lunging?

I'm just wondering if the chambon would be more appropriate for this instance for Baby Bronto.

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Yes exactly!! I actually like the outside knee and thigh to help aid with the circle more than lower leg for turning, lower leg for driving (actually both lower legs for forward on the circle). Which when the rider rotates the shoulders and hips together (there is a SLIGHT difference in angle IMO of...

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I need to ask this question re side reins: Do you feel they act on the horse's bar in the mouth instead of the corners?

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Dresseur what you wrote above makes absolutely no sense. If you agree with Tsavo then you would be disassociating your shoulders and hips to ride SI. Yet you say you keep your that core stability (which I fully agree with!) and your hips rotate slightly away from the wall (again I fully agree with) ...

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But I don't agree that the HQs stay straight, they do track straighter than the shoulders as in they do not cross, but the hind legs narrow, inside hip lowers as the horse engages with inside hind (it steps towards center line). In order for all of this to occur there is a slight rotation of the hip...

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Tsavo get you a T square, those haunches are not square to the wall in those illustrations, the inside hip is slightly behind the outside hip. Which is exactly what I have been saying. There is slight rotation of the hips so that they are not square to the wall. I have no idea why bringing the insid...

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chisamba I did not say no one should use SRs, that is your horse your choice. I don't care. Me personally I do not anymore and I have used the range of all manners of SRs etc in lunging. I do not like what they do to the horses as I work them for many reasons. When I lunge I use most often a caveson...

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I don't use SRs at all anymore. I follow along with some BNT like Karen Rohlf and Manola Mendez and especially Anja Beran who do more work in hand and educating the horse that way, with some lunging especially with the youngsters.

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What I am saying is that the hips do not stay completely square to the arena wall/line. There is slight rotation in the hips in direction of the bend on the horse. The inside hip does drop, yes, but they do shift slightly to the inside in SI because of the curve poll to tail. Look at this video and ...

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Tsavo except there is some deviation of the horse's hips in SI. i.e. they do rotate just slightly (more with more bend and greater engagement like in 4 track SI) which is why it narrows the hind legs and puts the inside hind more under center of mass/center line. If the hips stayed totally square th...

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Damn, I am so sorry Hot4spots. Crushing. I would be buried in chocolate ice cream. I know how badly I felt last year when we thought I was going to have to euthanize Rip because of his upper airway. I cried all the way home, 2 hours worth. Rosie get well soon!!! I hate that for you and scared for yo...

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To me neither trot seat (which is square on the horse) or canter seat where inside seat bone slightly ahead of outside are similar to SI seat position. I had always been taught that there should be more weight in the inside seat bone to help engage the inside hind but over the years I have found tha...

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Now that is what a QH should look like! I love her!! Love those ranch bred QHs, they are built to work. Great find!!

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So do you disassociate your shoulders and your hips? Ok that makes a bit more sense but that may be just your individual horse. Every horse I have ever ridden from green beans to GP I have ridden SI as I have described. Horses that I have trained and horses that were trained by others. I have never ...

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In SI my inside hip is back not forwards like canter seat. If you keep your trunk in one piece and core together the hips should turn to the inside slightly less than the shoulders. That is how I learned to do SI years ago and how I do it still today. Inside leg to outside rein but once the horse ge...

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Tsavo inside hip forward? Not back? I rotate so that my shoulders stay in line with the horse's shoulders and my hips are slightly rotated to the inside, inside hip back. Rip will do SI mostly from my seat and legs at this point in our journey. But I have never just done SI off the inside rein. I do...

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Canter plie is when a horse is on right lead and they are yielding aka moving left. It deepens the step of the inside hind leg under the center of mass of the body. Canter HP right engages the outside hind as it moves towards CM as the horse moves right. tsavo why most classically trained trainers d...

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Ah Geeze Bip! Pretty girl and man what a time you've had!! I understand about abscesses this year! I've dealt with two nasty buggers in one horse (she actually had a 3rd but never was lame on it) and she is prone to ulcers, ugh. I have her on Alfalfa lox by Triple Crown now trying to keep her from c...

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