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Ponichiwa

Oh no! Sue, so very sorry for your loss.

Ponichiwa

from my observation, and I realize you may feel differently, she is objecting to the leg. if you ask her to do something and she doesn't mind too much, she co operates , if she doesn't want to, she stops and swings her haunches at you. Agree with Chisamba. She's objecting to the leg and she's a bit...

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If you are open to non-hound floppy-eared dogs who are basically uniformly sweet, shy, submissive, consider a pointer: http://www.pointerrescue.org/available.html p.s. Fenced yard is important 2nd the (well) fenced yard! My neighbor has one who is a bit of an escape artist and has bested every fenc...

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Ponichiwa, I actually think a clinic after the show will be very useful! I'd be worried about a clinic just before a show unless it was someone I'd worked with a lot because sometimes a clinic can introduce new ideas or ways of working that take some time to set in. Sometimes right after a clinic t...

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Interesting discussion re: resistance/tension vs. relaxation. It's been top of my mind this week. The weather has (knock wood) been absolutely lovely; even rarer, my work has been surprisingly well-behaved. As a result, Queso has been getting a lot of riding time. I've signed up for a schooling show...

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Have had a couple cavaletti days this spring. Accidentally set a line too close together and ipso presto, baby passage. Not repeatable, but still adorable. Every time I lay out a grid (or, if I'm honest, ride something that someone else has already put up because I'm lazy about arena accoutrements),...

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Queso is ranch-bred (mostly). Any racers in his pedigree are WAY back there-- 4+ generations away.

Edited to add-- and it shows! He's not a speedster.

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April's right around the corner, thankfully. We also have a saddlefitter swinging through the area in about that time and I am counting down... except I have a sneaking suspicion that a new saddle is in my future given musculature changes to The Big Cheese. But enough about me. Have found that Queso...

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What a great brag. Good to hear some good news! Engineer here (ME but currently in energy)-- there's a lot of really fun and exciting problems in the engineering world. I've got friends from my graduating class working in aerospace, automotive (mostly racing), power/energy, biomed, economics/statist...

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Hurray Aleuronx! Quandary time here: we are having a string of exceptionally pleasant days, weather-wise, but because I've adopted a ride-every-day-you-can philosophy earlier in the week, Queso has worked 8 days in a row and is starting to look pretty tired. Would you: - Ride, but take it easy (trai...

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Hurray! Excited to see you two get to know each other.

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Yikes. Healthy happy thoughts to all who need it. My last two weeks have been significantly less dramatic than those above. However, we are firmly in the flying-change-oh-you-mean-leaping-porpoise stage of installing changes on Queso. Going from his tougher direction (R) to easier (L), the changes a...

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How exciting! I do think wine bath is just what the occasion calls for.

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Happy Time Change, everyone! May your seasonal depression be lifted and your afternoon/evening rides be bright. Off topic - Has anyone heard from Dresseur lately? Hope all is well with her and Miro. Having a good run of rides on Queso, which has enabled me to get into his canter mechanics a bit (vs ...

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I'm going to take a slightly different stance than the majority opinion... you've ridden him a couple times already, right? I don't see the harm in you keeping on keeping on and putting positive, happy rides on him while you wait for the right training spots to open up so long as you're confident in...

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So very sorry for your loss. It might be part of the gig when we bring dogs into our lives, but it always hurts so badly.

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That guy looks like a great option-- how fun!

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Ok I think he looks adorable-- and potentially fun. Fingers crossed for PPE!

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There is that personality type that expects to be screwed over and ends up screwing over other people preemptively... wonder if that's at play here. I empathize with not wanting your sales horse to turn into a free-lease via excessive trial rides, but $90/ride feels steep. Given any reasonable alte...

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There is that personality type that expects to be screwed over and ends up screwing over other people preemptively... wonder if that's at play here. I empathize with not wanting your sales horse to turn into a free-lease via excessive trial rides, but $90/ride feels steep. Given any reasonable alter...

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have you seen the De Kunffy ( are you ready for flying changes) thing going around face book? https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=4042000292498195&id=177593622272234 Man. This reads like a classic case of "if you're not perfect, don't do it." Never mind that in order to get to...

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I'm not going to get into the grid situation, the immediate politicizing of our power sources, or how our current power distribution economy discourages long-term infrastructure investments-- because I'm still too grumpy about it. I'm in SE TX (near Houston). We didn't get near as cold as the Panhan...

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Also have MI cred-- went to school in MI-- so I have the wardrobe to get through this weather. My house, unfortunately, doesn't. Thanks to 4d without power (in a house with electric heat), had several pipes in the attic burst despite having the water shut off at the main and drained via all the taps...

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The trouble with the gait score is there's a lot of ways to get a 6/7. Ride the heck out of your ground-bound ex-pleasure horse? 6. Take all of the suspension out of your boingy young WB because that's really hard to sit? 6. The former is not what the gait score was intended to judge; the latter is....

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tlkidding--For the GP, the piaffe is supposed to be 12-15 steps ON THE SPOT. The one meter allowed forward is in the I-2. The way that is scored (look at Wellington) is a LOT of BS. You see MANY GP horses doing 5/6 steps on the spot. You may already have read this/be familiar with this, but the FEI...

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Mid-goals/progress check-in: have been on quarantine for the last week due to a COVID exposure in the household. I am slowly losing my mind.

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Here's my avg history to help solidify my membership in the Kelo Cookie Club: *squints* Hmmmm......yeah..... that'll do it, you can have a cookie, too. 8-) Heck, here have a second one, because it's all so annoying and honestly we deserve it :lol: Isn't it the worst? So close and yet so very very f...

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I've ridden a lot of 57 - 59% GP rides (just took a look at my score history and I had 7 out of 10 attempts in one year alone. Now wasn't that a fun walk down memory lane). Sometimes what you need is a judge that sees "ok" work as a 6 instead of 5.5-- makes all the difference. I'll also sa...

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I will also say that in every price bracket there's going to be _something_ imperfect. It's just figuring out which imperfections you can live with that's the struggle.

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Other horse-shopping FYIs-- I'm suspicious every time the walk is shown only on a long rein. May be worth getting some collected walk video before traveling just to make sure the walk stays pure when compressed.

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Very unrelated sidebar: I'm really glad the horse-going-down-a-really-steep-hill test of yore has all but disappeared nowadays. Whole lotta no-thanks. Example: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f6/6d/0f/f66d0f1a99b15ee1817ca172c6b74911.jpg There's one of those shots on CdK's page and it just gives me t...

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The pictures cited are also on his website: https://www.charlesdekunffy.com/ -- in the home page and the biography page.

I've only ever seen the trot photo of him on the grey horse before.

Edited to fix broken link

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On the topic of cute mares, here's a 7yo RPSI mare for $6.5k in SD:
https://warmblood-sales.com/horse/sf-lady-luck

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Might be too far (OH?) but this is a cute 6yo Hann mare. I love Akzent II horses-- the ones I've known have had really fun brains. Listed at $15k.

https://warmblood-sales.com/horse/wroyal-kate-0

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Oof that's tough. On the one hand, your friend is right: this horse does need to only be handled by extremely competent and experienced professionals. On the other, those unicorns of horse handling have to exist everywhere this horse will ever be-- all vet staff, all barn staff, for his entire life-...

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Also, we may need to start a gold horse or gold QH club because, as of a couple weeks ago, I'm eligible to be a member :mrgreen: I have acquired a 2yo gelding with a ton of chrome and he makes my heart go pitter pat. He seems to be a big ol' happy dope, and I can't wait to see where he goes. I don'...

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Do you ever video your rides? I would love to see what another QH is doing under a more advanced rider. Finding footage of QHs doing 2nd/3rd decently is hard. I think they can do it, there just aren't that many trainers out there putting the time in to advance them. I am in a hate-the-way-I-look ru...

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For those of us in the northern hemisphere, especially those with rehab duties-- keep hanging in there. It'll get lighter outside eventually. Southern hemi folks: remind me not to complain about this weather when I'm sweating my brains out this summer. Queso and I are hanging in there. The changes I...

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I will put my flame suit on, but I've audited a Robert Dover clinic and found it to be one of the worst clinics I've audited. Very little useful advice was given to the riders and horses. Blatant problems were ignored and the clinic mostly consisted of riders just going around doing their normal ri...

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I've truly struggled to get focused on work over the last 10 days. There have been so many (SO SO MANY) breaches of norms, from the Raffensperger pressure phone call to a full-on coup attempt. Our institutions are lucky that this group is so ham-handed that all of their attempts to subvert democracy...

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(re)Learned that lesson the hard way yesterday-- had the short reins but not the throughness, and as a result neither Queso nor I felt good about the go-to-work portions of yesterday's ride. Horses are pretty good at humbling us. Chisamba and others have made this point a couple times: focusing only...

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They look long and (to my taste) drop low during what doesn't look like strenuous work. I bet his trot is very comfy to sit, but one of my sister's horses with similar conformation end up with dropped pasterns at a (relatively) young age (< 15yo), so I've got some sensitivity to it.

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My eye looks lower at the hind end: not in love with his pasterns. But I honestly think it's worth a vet check, especially as it looks like he's got a good brain in him, which counts for so much in this sport.

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Virtual work could be a boon to the cities and countryside alike: the air quality in and around cities has markedly improved (in my area, you can see downtown from flyover overpasses ~20 mi away now); rural areas could reap the tax and spending rewards of decentralized office workers (assuming suffi...

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Best wishes for all those in some form of equine rehabbing mode. Hope everyone pulls through stronger and sounder than ever. I've discovered a new canter gear with Queso over the last 2ish weeks thanks to cavaletti work, mainly, and it's the basis of our newfound flying change abilities. It's quite ...

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I had been meaning to acquire/read Mediocre. Thanks for that reminder. And Apollo's Arrow sounds interesting, too. I'm also a data + economic theory junkie. I just finished "The Price of Peace"- a biography of John Maynard Keynes + the evolution of the application of his work after he pas...

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On the topic of rein length: In my own riding, when my reins get long it's because I'm doing too little with my core. Keep them short and with elbows slightly in front of me, and I have to actually engage my core to keep the balance where I want it. Let them long and let my elbows drift backwards, ...

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Hope everyone had or is having a lovely holiday. I'm in the middle of 2 weeks off work, which means lots and lots of saddle time. Evidently I was good this year because I got a great present: I've got flying changes on Queso, y'all! No photographic evidence, but here's the (slightly dirty) little ge...

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Oof, not a fan of the photos as representatives of connection. For several reasons: - Downbeat of the canter is a terrible point in time to make any comments about how the hind legs are or are not under the horse-- they're about to take a step forward! - The two non-rollkur dressage photos are both ...

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Piedmontfields-- so sorry to hear of Emi's diagnosis! This is a tough time of year to be going into rehab stuff. Every weather change turns my horses into kites. Hoping for the best outcome for you both. Lots of progress on this thread! Congrats all for the breakthroughs large and small. As for me a...

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