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Great updates and goals, I love reading these! Still moving forward (ha!). The new bit didn't work so we are back to our old bit for the time being but the newer saddle is better. From trying out different saddles, I can see where I may benefit from a saddle that has a little more to it than the KN ...

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Great pictures, your horses look great Blob. And I love the jumping photo Imperini. Gosh exvet, showing isn't even a thought right now in this cold. Congrats on your good rides. Hows's the new bit? The jury is still out on ours. I think it's too big. It only comes in S, M, L, etc and we tried a S th...

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"New" saddle-check (traded in 29 yo KN symphonie for slightly wider less used 28 yo KN Symphonie and had it completely reflocked with natural wool, working for now. New bit- first bit I've bought for him, he is very happy in it for now. 16 mm Turtle top flex bit, size M. Adjusted and happy...

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Former serious cyclist here. I also taught cycling to road bikers and triathletes, not spin but cycling. Outside on the roads in good weather and clients used their bikes on our trainers for winter/bad weather workouts. I'm not keen on an exercise bike, but for lack of anything else, I will hop on o...

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I do it on my own at home but don't do it enough. I did for almost 1 1/2 years then slowed down. I had done yoga previously with an instructor. I don't feel like I have the time or $$ to take a class but that could be me. And I love looking for what I need to work on and doing a session designed for...

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piedmontfields-happy to hear your mare is doing well. I know we feel good when we are in alignment and healthy so... And thank you, i'm very lucky DH likes to take pictures-and video. So educational. What we think we're doing, what our instructor sees us doing... ha! I love seeing all the pics too. ...

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That's awesome exvet. I keep reading your posts and seeing what's down the road for us. Go Junior! Yup, don't overthink, just ride. But we still have to think at the same time. :lol: "Riding like the horse I want him to be" is a mouthful. Yup yup yup. Not reacting to him and setting us up ...

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Caliburn is looking good Chisamba. Nice comparison pics. Aleuronx, love your girl. Flight, looking forward to seeing your progress with this one too. We are working hard on the canter and bend in both directions. Ask and expect is the motto. He was so on my aids in my last lesson and I couldn't have...

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My horse's breeder puts drops on all her horses. I haven't gone there with Mikey yet. We had a poles clinic yesterday which challenged our cantering skills. Trotting was great but I wasn't good with the YES to his questioning if he had to canter over the poles, and 2 of them at that. We did get our ...

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Thinking of you and your son Chisamba. Sending you peace, love and strength.

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And 2 more just because. DH calls the one a Toyota commercial. And the other one is because I love his face.

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Oh wow, lots going on. Sorry to hear about the suspensory issue H4s. Wishing for the best for you and Mark. And Flight too, come on sole, grow! Gosh exvet, I was just told that I should be preparing for flying changes by next year... um, yeah... not quite there yet. We had a good clinic on the 23rd....

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Wow, everyone is working so hard. Flight, I love that picture! Rosie B., that's really exciting. Wishing you the best! Nice work Kelo. Aleuronx, you will get through this. Hacking is so good for the young ones. So many people ride out at our barn so I can hack 3x a week or so with my guy. Great cond...

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I am not an instructor nor do I play one but I know when I have an issue with bend I'm blocking with my outside rein, subtle but oh so important.

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Oh what fun Chantal! and looking good. My daughter and I use to do a hunter pace every Halloween but the last couple of years either one or the other was without a mount. I do miss it because they are a blast and I think the horses generally think so too. They are so much fun! And I do think the ho...

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Flight, cool pics, looking good. I would love to get to the point where I could ride one-handed. I'm impressed. Rosie B., Bliss is looking great! I haven't gone back too far, I will now. We are sorting out the canter finally and getting our act together on the right lead. And working to maintain it ...

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So much riding and so much progress, I love this topic. I've been busy with work, remodeling the house, parenting, and working the beast so I'm playing catch-up. So cool to read everyone's progress. We are figuring out the canter. He really wasn't off my right leg properly (makes so much sense now.....

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I push beyond my comfort zone. Usually with friends though. We've been playing a lot in the fields near XC jumps...

And even canter or other work. I love to play. We can always come back to comfortable and be confident in that.

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The shoeing issue is interesting to me. Mikey is barefoot for now. He's never been shod and doesn't need them at this point. But I will do what he needs. He's my first with no shoes, so... watch and see.

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The first thing that comes to mind is that we are the ones who have chosen this sport of perfection, not to mention riding perfect circles in the dirt.

It does sound like someone is upset about about something or someone.

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Love the pics and updates. We have been hacking out a lot, including a few baby (and I mean baby) XC fences. Or the log in the trail that you can't go around, which he usually steps over. He has a blast is so much fun. His right lead is picked up easily out in the fields. So I've created my first ev...

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I was a working student near Wellington in Loxahatchee in '92/93. Not my scene but would love to go back to a big show to watch and shop and take it all in at this point. With some actual friends.

I can't believe it's $3700. And what is a dry stall?

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I love your pics flight, very inspiring. And wow you have a great seat! Mikey has changes, not intentional. We did just a little canter work last week and we are still having issues with the right lead. We went from a 10m trot circles to the left, turned right and bam into the canter. He still got t...

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Mikey is fat and happy. We were gone for half of the past 3 weeks and he was ridden twice when I was gone. His bellah is huge and he's lazy. Kind of a nice change, temporarily. We did a long trail ride today and he was wonderful, even played with a few tiny obstacles. I just love him, but back to wo...

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Oh Rye, hope you are okay. Gosh, Norsey is a handsome dude. And Bliss is looking really good. Nice work for your guy too blob. Some photos are better than none, that's for sure. We are back on track, though a few steps behind. Then again, I think the tension he was starting to show is gone so maybe ...

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Mikey had 8 days off to get back to normal. I had a short lesson yesterday on him and he was his happy relaxed self, and back in my 28 yo KN symphonie. So we are sticking with that for now. We had a jumping clinic today and I rode a friends horse and actually jumped. So much fun. Going to hop on ear...

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exvet wrote:Chantal - FWIW regarding Albions I find the old styles and the SLs & SLKs to have a narrower twist. I cannot ride in the legends, comfort or other models.

Thanks!

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Chantal - No, I sold all 3 of my KNs to a good friend, another welsh cob breeder. I have two Albion SLKs. One was fitted for my stallion and it fits Junior to a "T" as well. My expectation is that I will have to get it reflocked/fitted to Junior in another year because I see his back alre...

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PheonixRising, yes, the young ones are challenging. But certainly boring. :lol: But sometimes we learn more from those tough lessons than the ones we think are really "good". exvet-sounds like you guys are doing really well. Yay Junior, and exvet! Your hard work is showing. Are you still r...

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Thank you for the kind words khali and piedmontfields. The pics are interesting, not fanatastic and I can pick them apart. But better than many from that day. Ugh. It was really frustrating because he was such a different horse than in the clinic a month ago. I think the clinician was wondering what...

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And of course I know not to pull him around turns, it's much more subtle than that but we really got it. Now for it to be consistent. Yes of course we know, and what we do both bad and is IS subtle. It really is amazing to see how sometimes the smallest adjust makes such a huge difference. I'm on a...

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My most recent huge lightbulb moment was not pulling my guy around turns or a circle, just the inside half half-a squeeze of the hand basically. If my guy is going through the outside shoulder I will react by pulling to the inside. And much like musical comedy it goes with giving the outside rein so...

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Happy you are moving forward Dresseur. I'm hoping you don't have RA or Lymes, I have RA and it's definitely a change in lifestyle, but still riding, Heck, it's half the reason I finally bought a horse. Wishing you the best moving forward, will keep an out for updates. I had a tough clinic on Sunday ...

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Nodding head in vigorous agreement.

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Great to read everyone's posts, I've been living vicariously. Ultrasound shows (in the vet's words) spectacular tendon structures. Just a blood vessel burst when he initially hit himself and that's causing the swelling and little bit of heat we are seeing. So nothing to worry about. Back to work bab...

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Way to go Moutaineer! There are always challenges, it's riding through them that makes or breaks us. Flight, Mikey's leg is better but still slightly swollen and a little heat today after a 35 min trail walk. So I called the vet and he'll be out tomorrow. I'm hoping he'll say it's residual swelling ...

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Ha, I rode a mare last Thursday and because of advice doused her in fly spray before the 35 min trotting rehab session. Ummm, mid-trot she stopped and violently rubbed her front leg with her mouth 'cause fly. Sigh.

Good times huh Paula?

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I've talked to him a bit the past few years as we are FB friends and have some things in common that he's been there for me for. Interestingly, we aren't far from each other, dinner or a day out to meet him is a hope I have. I'm so happy for them!

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Chantal, I feel you! Laddie was sound today, so I've just drunk half a bottle of wine and done my show entries for next weekend. I'm ridiculously superstitious about this stuff, sigh. Is that what I'm missing? The half bottle of wine? Yes, we had a poles clinic and I'm ready to start the jumping ph...

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We've had a few days off for the swelling of the month. No lameness... Mikey banged or cut (can't quite tell which) his front right tendon (not the tendon, but swelling around it) near the top last Tuesday and it's almost better. So a few nights in (they are on night turnout) and it's much better. H...

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mari-love your pics, smile, attitude and altitude. that is a seriously awesome butt high pic! onward and upward! (maybe not that up...

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Wow Rosie, very nice. And beautiful pic Flight. Ah, halts and centerline, old nemesis from the past. It's interesting having a completely clean start with that. And knowing that all the bad habits will be things I created... :lol: We had a breaktrhough with canter and halts in my lesson on Friday. W...

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Glad you are okay exvet. I hate mounting shenanigans. Sounds like you have so much positive, yay! Moutaineer-hope you have a good show! I'm still struggling with the right lead canter. We did a couple steps of rein-back to canter after 2 strides of walk and we got it. So he's anticipating the canter...

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Wow Imperini! I like your horse, and love the canter photo. I have dreams of looking like that at the canter...

I love to read how everyone is working and training. So inspiring!

Wishing for quick healing and back to the fun for you StraightForward.

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Congratulations! Love!!!!!!

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Congratulations!! He sounds like fun, looking forward to hearing about your journey with him.

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Such a great read, thank you for starting this thread. I am going to try the spiraling exercise to help us with our right lead canter. One of the things from my clinic (as mentioned above) was having the reins short enough to have influence but putting the hands forward. If I drop the connection, th...

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Oh Laddie, so glad to hear he's feeling better. He'd better be extra nice to you Moutaineer! I love the pic from your clinic. And thank you :D I'm a little over the moon with my guy. He's really maturing. Thank you all, DH took the pics. I love video as I can relive the lesson a little better but a ...

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I posted in the young horse forum but will add pics here too. Story to follow as it's too late for a long post. It's been a tough 3 weeks so I'm just glad we made it. We accomplished what I wanted, even having to cut it short in the heat. No canter pics (we worked on relaxing at the canter and getti...

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A few pics from a clinic yesterday. I remembered to look up after calming down and the photographer (DH) switched to video. Starting SI and working on keeping him off the right shoulder. Lots to work on but we accomplished my main goal, working on the right lead canter and figuring out how to get me...

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