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- Tue Aug 22, 2023 6:09 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Of fly spray and soaked saddle pads: July and August goals and progress
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Re: Of fly spray and soaked saddle pads: July and August goals and progress
Back from the Estes Park Show... it was quite a weekend! 7 of us headed out on Wednesday morning. I'd been feeling pretty crummy for the week beforehand and still wasn't feeling that great. I convoyed with one of my barn mates. It's a solid 9-hour drive with a trailer. The last hour or so is a horro...
- Tue Aug 15, 2023 11:04 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
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Lovely pictures, Mari! Very elegant!
- Mon Aug 14, 2023 8:35 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
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I can't see the pictures either Mari! Congratulations on getting out there. We are on the same path :) I had excellent rides both Saturday and today. The only thing I'm not really happy with at home is the extended canter to collected canter transition. Largely because of the lack of extended canter...
- Fri Aug 11, 2023 7:53 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
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I'm really pleased with how Potters feels after the Osphos shots and a first shot of Adequan. He's lost that stuck behind my leg feeling at the trot. Its so much easiervto ride a horse that has its own motor! Counting down to leaving for Estes Park on Wednesday. Taking the trailer in for a health ch...
- Mon Aug 07, 2023 3:35 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
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Good boy, Fly! (And nice, tactful riding, Chisamba.)
- Sun Aug 06, 2023 11:15 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
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Quiet few days here after a big week last week with lots of training breakthroughs for me. Potters gets his Osphos shots on Tuesday so he has to be off his anti inflamatorires for several days beforehand, so easy does it until all that is in his system and settled down. Having said that I was supris...
- Wed Aug 02, 2023 11:43 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Of fly spray and soaked saddle pads: July and August goals and progress
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Oh, those are difficult ride times, SF. Too much time but not quite enough, and in the heat of the day.
I've not watched your videos yet, but I will!
Chantal, you and Mikey look like such a well-matched pair! Is it really 5 years? Wow.
I've not watched your videos yet, but I will!
Chantal, you and Mikey look like such a well-matched pair! Is it really 5 years? Wow.
- Mon Jul 31, 2023 9:04 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Of fly spray and soaked saddle pads: July and August goals and progress
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Much cooler here today, after some rain. Thats the good news... the bad news is the bug population has exploded. And apparently Potters got himself thoroughly wound up in his fly sheet yesterday--both the belly straps and the butt strap ripped off, scrapes on his hocks and one shoulder rubbed raw. O...
- Sat Jul 29, 2023 12:00 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
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Flight, I think her problem with the half pass, which was valid, was that my prior half circle didn't make it to the center line, so that was an automatic 4 to her. (She had a bit of a thing about circle size. My trainer's assistant did a very pretty 17-meter canter circle which should have been a 1...
- Thu Jul 27, 2023 11:16 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Of fly spray and soaked saddle pads: July and August goals and progress
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I can post a lengthened trot easily enough, but I'm not sure I could post an extended trot. It would take some real skill not to get left behind, so I don't think it's dumbing down at all.
- Thu Jul 27, 2023 2:04 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Of fly spray and soaked saddle pads: July and August goals and progress
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Khall , I accept my faults :) no offense taken! Schooling shows around here are so poorly judged its not worth the effort, especially once one is out of first level, TBH. So we suck it up and show the few recognized shows that we have locally and deal with their lousy footing, flues and politics. I ...
- Wed Jul 26, 2023 10:11 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
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Phew... thanks to some stupid work thing I finally got on my horse at high noon today, and they'd kindly watered the arena for me. Not so much Death Valley as a sauna. We looked like we'd been standing in the shower by the time we were done, and I must have lost 2lbs. We had a pretty solid ride, tho...
- Tue Jul 25, 2023 1:04 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Of fly spray and soaked saddle pads: July and August goals and progress
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The mediums and the extensions sucked, I'll certainly own that. That's the Potters spook. It's actually easier to sit than it looks because it's a straight back and he doesn't spin. You just have to stay in the middle in case he drops a shoulder. I'm also trying not to grab with my legs and carve a ...
- Mon Jul 24, 2023 9:23 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Of fly spray and soaked saddle pads: July and August goals and progress
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Zevida, I think that's the vast majority of us. Trainer wants me to do 3.3 next time out. We think it will suit Potters better and will certainly suit me better (trot medium and extension up front before I run out of oomph--I was dying at the end of this one, which is patently obvious on the video! ...
- Mon Jul 24, 2023 9:17 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Of fly spray and soaked saddle pads: July and August goals and progress
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Here you go. Be kind to old ladies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qIZMwLZh-c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qIZMwLZh-c
- Mon Jul 24, 2023 8:49 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Of fly spray and soaked saddle pads: July and August goals and progress
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Chisamba, I just watched your test. Saiph looked like she was a willing little soldier through the most of it, and you looked like you were supporting her just fine. A 3 for that bobble seems harsh. Maybe the directive has been put out that horses that behave like horses instead of machines are to b...
- Mon Jul 24, 2023 5:10 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Of fly spray and soaked saddle pads: July and August goals and progress
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I seem to remember getting nailed by Marilyn Heath when I was showing Walker. I guess she's not a fan of non -traditional horses in dressage. And yes Tanga. Watching the Kristi Wysocki new test symposium for the last go round of tests, I remember sitting there thinking "no judge IRL uses the to...
- Sun Jul 23, 2023 11:58 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Of fly spray and soaked saddle pads: July and August goals and progress
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Chisamba, I'm finding him much easier to ride in the double, which is probably a failing on our part, but there's that thing about old dogs and new tricks, and I'm at the point where anything legal that makes life easier is a good thing!
- Sun Jul 23, 2023 8:31 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Of fly spray and soaked saddle pads: July and August goals and progress
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Gratuitous Potters picture to prove we did it.
- Sun Jul 23, 2023 8:23 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Of fly spray and soaked saddle pads: July and August goals and progress
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Eh, Chisamba, I had a weekend of bizarre judging, too. 2 newly-minted S judges on a power trip. (As another competitor said to me at one point, "she sure likes the sound of that bell!") Scores were miserable throughout, except for the spectacularly fancy young warmbloods at training and fi...
- Thu Jul 20, 2023 7:13 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Of fly spray and soaked saddle pads: July and August goals and progress
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Yeah, im not complaining about my 8.44am ride time tomorrow!
We are as ready as we are going to be...
We are as ready as we are going to be...
- Tue Jul 18, 2023 12:56 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Of fly spray and soaked saddle pads: July and August goals and progress
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We are much hotter than we are used to at elevation also. Poor Potters is sweating standing still, and he's covered in hives again. I think he got bitten by some bug which precipitated the whole thing. It's too hot for fly sheets. A trip to the vet tomorrow for me to pick up assorted meds/dex/ antih...
- Thu Jul 13, 2023 11:15 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Of fly spray and soaked saddle pads: July and August goals and progress
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Boy its been hot riding the last couple of days. Exhausting. And its going to get worse. And while all the new landscaping etc around the barn looks very smart, next to the new asphalt, using black lava rock as mulch would not have been my choice. Its simmering all the newly planted vegetation (and ...
- Tue Jul 11, 2023 1:14 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Of fly spray and soaked saddle pads: July and August goals and progress
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Good news about Annabelle! Yes, I am in a good place with a bunch of fun and supportive like-minded people. It really is great. I'd find a Freisian Knab quite hard to resist. (Theres a nice looking Knab youngster for sale just down the road from me at a very reasonable price. Sadly I neither need or...
- Sat Jul 08, 2023 7:32 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
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- Fri Jul 07, 2023 8:45 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
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You know its hot when you take your boots off after a ride and your shins are sweating... I warmed up and ran through the 3.1 test this morning. I'm pretty happy with the canter work but I seem to have completely lost the ability to ride a trot half pass in either direction. I think I'm trying too h...
- Fri Jul 07, 2023 4:22 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
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You are bound to be near one of us, Flight!
Ouchie, Annabelle! I'm glad she's sound though.
Ouchie, Annabelle! I'm glad she's sound though.
- Thu Jul 06, 2023 4:59 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Of fly spray and soaked saddle pads: July and August goals and progress
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I used to live the Estes Park shows when I was in Colorado. Are you talking about the same Estes Park? can be windy. Yes, same Estes Park. The weather is notoriously awful for this show which is one of the things that gives me pause. That and the long trailer ride, the lousy stabling, the fairly ru...
- Wed Jul 05, 2023 1:20 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Of fly spray and soaked saddle pads: July and August goals and progress
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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 s...
- Sun Jul 02, 2023 4:21 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
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Well, I have to say I'm pretty happy with my progress in the last couple of months. I'm riding independently, feel much more confident and I'm having fun. I've sorted out some medical stuff which has helped my energy levels and physical fitness quite significantly. I've spent much more time in the s...
- Sat Jul 01, 2023 4:25 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
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Chisamba, in my world you do what the horse needs to do in order to be comfortable and happy. I see that as being an overriding concern of yours too. The horse will thank you for it. And to be perfectly honest I think the vast majority of actual competitors have their heads so deeply in their own co...
- Thu Jun 29, 2023 2:33 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
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Mikey is a handsome dude! You look good together.
I hope Annabelle is healing up, SF.
I hope Annabelle is healing up, SF.
- Tue Jun 27, 2023 3:39 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
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Oh, no SF, what a shitshow!
Poot Annabelle. I hope the trainer is showing due contrition also.
Poot Annabelle. I hope the trainer is showing due contrition also.
- Mon Jun 26, 2023 9:02 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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 ...