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Chisamba

She is worst at shows. But not ever dangerous just ridiculous tense and sucked back. She doesn't like being alone. So she can relax in the busy warm up and then just tense up ad she realizes she is alone in the ring. She's be a good hunter pleasure horse

Chisamba

I'm venting, but I decided to step back for Saiph and am preparing for a show with a lower level of difficulty. Well. I think now it's a giant easier of show fees. I moved a couple of things in the indoor because I'm grooming and leveling the footing. Saiph was , to put it politely, a completely unr...

Chisamba

My goals. Kimba, start under saddle walk rehab. I'm working on light flexible contact since we are just straight line walking. Saiph. Bring down a couple of levels and develop show quality at shows. Flei. Well, wait him out when he starts bucking and them go on as if nothing happened. Honey. Progres...

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I'm looking forward to the next two months. I feel like I've finally got my Mojo back. Potters is being a joy to ride and I'm having fun. Of course I do have that feeling of impending "waiting for the other shoe to drop" doom one gets as a horse owner when things are going well. I have a ...

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This will be a quiet 2 months for me as it's the middle of winter here. Normally that's ok, but it's been quite wet. We tend to be dry here but we've been getting that mizzly misty rain stuff where you end up soaked through by the end of a ride. I've also got a bit going on with work, filling in a ...

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It's an old Irish saying but horses with a hard mouth are born with a hard mouth. Yes I also had a visceral negative reaction to that statement, bur it's true. Having g since ridden so many different hosts for so many different reasons many many horses, maybe most horses will chew spit curl or get b...

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StraightForward. awful about Annabelle . For the record I never turn a horse over to trainer and rider. I helicopter for good reason. Exvet. And Moutaineer, may canter become your best gait. From PS,G On its the most important Flight. So glad you updated. I miss you when you do not post Kmom. So sor...

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The added advantage is you can wash them clean

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My problem is that Saiph should probably go to a busy show every other week to just get over the tension and show better, but that is ridiculously expensive. I might be blighted to stay home and school until I feel like I can get a reasonable score even when she is tense and hard to ride. I've vacil...

Chisamba

Moutaineer, so much trotting . Kudos for a lovely sense of humor. It is incredibly frustrating to have a horse behind the leg in the show ring!!!.

Lovely pic of Potters and his humans

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Show weekend done and dusted. 3 days of showing and learning moments and improvement each day. Lessons learned. 1) I not likely to ever have a relaxed confident ride from Saiph so getting the best out of a distracted tense horse is the goal. 2) you can spook, jump o to the ring and jump out again an...

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Moutaineer wrote:Of course, EqEntries have sodded up my entries for the show next weekend. I'm sure it will get sorted out, but really...

Oh no!

Chisamba

The air is bad here

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I had thought about breeding Kimba because there are so many positives about her, and those are the mares that should be bred, breed your favorite riding horse, not the one no one wants to ride ( my motto) . Anyway, I haven't because do I really want to be riding green horse in 2028? And then I thin...

Chisamba

Isn't that super. Well done.

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Moutaineer I really identify with 2 things you said. if they are not in front of the leg the changes are just not good enough, and riding the beginning, middle and end of every exercise means focusing on every stride because there is no down time . Exvet, Junior looks so strong and fit, I don't thin...

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So Saiph and I are entered in fourth level at the rated show. I know I'm not PSG ready but I took her to a schooling show in PSG because I need both the practice and the input. I made a stupid error in that I forgot my spurs. If it had been a real show I world have been eliminated. Turns out half wa...

Chisamba

Potters has muscled up beautifully!

Lsp so sorry to hear about the pain med addiction. I don't really know what is involved in supporting some one to get over that, but sending jingles.

Mud is just nasty for hooves and pasterns

Chisamba

I decided based on scribing that I am not psg ready so I entered fourth level because I really need the ride experience with Saiph and judges opinions will help me toward PSG I HOPE ( As tanga says often the judges differ dramatically)

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So things I took away from scribing. Know how to ride a circle or corner. For goodness sake people, know the size and make sure the quarters follow the shoulders. From training le rl to votes, don't level points on the floor. A shoulder in is not a haunches out. Wow. I'm talking FEI Scribing is lika...

Chisamba

Volunteering as scribe today. Fei and young rider and young horse tests.

Chisamba

Sounds like good progress with T!!

It's been so quiet here.

I'm trying hard to decide if Saiph is ready for the June show.

Flei and Honey are making progress.

Kimba is still on sushi test ( autocorrect you slay me. Stall rest ) no walking yet.

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One can never be completely happy. Unfortunately Saiph lost a little of her uphill but I was really happy with the crossing over and not completely hating my posture.

Chisamba

Mari, if I may suggest, if you like, practice some leg yield in canter, leg forward at the girth, don't let it slide back, so he can understand lateral to the leg at the girth. I think it will be helpful for everything in the future. Of course I don't want to tell you anything that conflicts with yo...

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Can you explain this pattern/exercise a bit more? How do you move the hindquarters without moving your legs? You use the leg , you but you keep the place. Let's say I'm doing a counter canter , so I'm in my left lead going right. Left leg at the girth, right leg behind the girth. Horse bent slightl...

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Lovely news indeed

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So sorry about your cat.

Well done with your loading, planning, training and care

Chisamba

I might be conservative but one barn fire is more than enough for a life time. Spend the extra and be safe ffs. I won't allow open fans in my barn. I use max air or these.... https://www.valleyvet.com/ct_detail.html?pgguid=431a0bc6-7b8f-4ee7-adf6-309425103dfd&grp=I000&grpc=UUUU&grpsc=UUU...

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Change bend, move the hindquarters ( Making sure not to move the legs ) them clearly shift the legs and change. The idea is to make room for the hind leg to come through and not be short or late . Can you explain this pattern/exercise a bit more? How do you move the hindquarters without moving your...

Chisamba

That is just so cute. Perfect job for a safe old man.

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Joplin is a stepping machine.

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I worked with great focus on aid clarity. In particular correct right leg position. ( old bad habits pre hip replacement) . The goal is to do the flying change is the same steps you need for the 6 stride zig zags. Work off the rail, be straight legs and seat in place. Change bend, move the hindquart...

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No new exercises from the clinic, just doing them better . Basically the trot work is PSG ready but the flying changes need to be straighter. And I need to be more clear on my aids

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Today am really happy with Saiphs 1/4 pirouette and flying changes have improved but still need a lot more improvement. I pled up my big girl breeches and took fly out to the big outdoor. I am mostly walking him because o pulled his road shoes and really really want to be able to keep him barefoot b...

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Really appreciate your comments Moutaineer. It's a tough one for me but you are right I really have to consider the safety of the other humans that are affected by Denebs antics. Khall so glad to hear that Joplins eye was no longer inflamed. Aleuronx congrats on what sounds like a nice showing. Flig...

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I was looking everywhere for the bird until I realized he was riding

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Blob, not wishing this on anyone at all but have you researched EDM. It is most commonly first detected with gait changes and to use a human terminology, emotional outbursts. I have become convinced that this is what Deneb had after a long long long exhaustive search for everything else. Unfortunate...

Chisamba

I quite love that term " outstep his shadow"

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I hate eye problems. Jingles for Joplin.

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Two of my adult students kindly agreed to ride my green bean DHH yesterday. Just horses beginning a second career trotting around . No big deal. I'm just sharing for fun

https://youtube.com/shorts/dH-TQvBZwPg?feature=share

Chisamba

Every suspensory I have ever healed ( at least 6 over 50 years or so) has had a permanent thickening from scar tissue as it healed, but does not swell or heat with work once fully set.

Chisamba

Moutaineer I hope you are feeling better. Kyras mom, enjoy Iceland and tolting. I hope you all know and downloaded the new bit rules. Bits that used to be legal are no longer and I had to change a couple of client bridles before show season. I was riding Flei when he gave a little buck. I stopped hi...

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Actually I like the discussion but I don't mind if no one changes their mind because I have. Lol

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So I like this vid because he is a really nice looking horse just fooling around. As he does, he puts his head and neck in many postures. Up and playful, flicky elevated stride , dropped poll huge stide behind and powerful .

https://youtu.be/MLbXqherx-I

Chisamba

I think number one is for where the foot lands, is where the nose is pointing? It can flick out past the nose but tends to land down where the nose is pointing. No it doesn't. I have screenshot many photos to check exactly that point. And yep number 2. I think even in the FEI guidelines they've sai...

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Enjoy. I hope the SRS becomes designated as an art so that they can qualify for the art subsidies instead of being run as a business.

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Lol Mari. I acquired Fly when an Amish family sent him through a sale because he had so many road miles and they felt it was time for him to do something else. Only trouble being that a kill buyer bought him. I got a message that a girl wanted me to take her pony because she used her pocket money to...

Chisamba

Get him comfortable with a butt bat touching him nowhere near the trailer. Teach him to step forward when a butt bar ( looped to a rope ) touches him nowhere near the trailer. Then do it near the trailer. Then do it on the trailer but looped to him not the trailer so if he backs out the contact goes...

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Tanga, i agree. just because you can, ( push a horse faster) doesn't mean you should. Maybe one should give them when more time to carefully mature that talent.

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May. I have a clinic with Patricia Kottas. I'm a bit nervous about it. I rode with her father and found him difficult to understand. I would like to enter a schooling show in May and a rated show June. July August. I feel like if I want to show I need to do it more consistently. I don't want to be t...

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