How did you get started with dressage? [Archive]

xQHDQ

Jul. 17, 2008, 02:10 PM

It had always been around, but one day my trainer decided to stop showing on the QH circuit because of politics (the fixing of a youth class so 1 kid could get 1 point to go to World was the last straw). She was drawn to dressage for many reasons - no jumping, the discipline of it, etc. Our entire barn switched pretty much over night. For a while we all kept our QH's, but some moved to other breeds (WBs), some quit training with her. I switched breeds but then returned to a great QH.

class

Jul. 17, 2008, 02:10 PM

i bought an endurance horse who didn't always go in the direction i pointed him, so i figured i would try a "couple" of dressage lessons, just until i "learned to ride a little better." eight years later... still trying. ;)

class

Jul. 17, 2008, 02:11 PM

well that's the last time i reply to any of your threads grayarab!

grayarabpony

Jul. 17, 2008, 02:13 PM

Class you'll see I put the question back up. I took it down because the question has probably been asked a thousand times here. When I saw that 2 people had answered I put the question back up. No need to get pissy.

WindsongEq

Jul. 17, 2008, 02:51 PM

I had competed in WP and speed events...barrel racing...pole bending, etc. Switched to hunters, saw a young rider ride a GP horse and just loved the way it looked like she didn't even move and he did all these amazing things....I thought....I want to do that! ....and started training with her instructor...

Shiaway

Jul. 17, 2008, 02:53 PM

Through eventing but then I got to actually like it when I started riding at a school that had lusitanos. At first it was more about the lusitanos LOL but now I'm just addicted, unfortunatly. Oh to be an ignorant trail riders again.

merrygoround

Jul. 17, 2008, 03:01 PM

Through eventing when it was, groan, something you had to get through. :lol: :lol:

Arizona DQ

Jul. 17, 2008, 03:11 PM

I started in Massachusetts way back in 1975 because it was close by and I wanted to do something other than jumping...... I stopped because I moved to Germany and just did not have time (what a waste - being in GERMANY!). When I got back to the States I "puttered" around Arizona and rode with a "dressage trainer" but this was not the "hot bed" for english riding at the time. I started breeding and showing dogs instead and just quit riding altogether. Then my best friend retired and bought a Friesian. I started riding at her barn for just one lesson a week. I got the bug again and at the tender age of 57 now have my now dressage (in training) horse and even bought a <gasp> trailer!!!!!!

I figure at my age, I better do everything I can before it is too late and then I will just drive my horse........

angel

Jul. 17, 2008, 03:15 PM

Actually, the riding started as lessons with a man who did hunter/jumpers because it was the only place in the area with lesson horses.

Then, my husband and I bought our first horses and could no longer afford lessons. Of course, we ended up boarding. During that time, we had a famous dressage trainer in our area that I had always admired from afar. Her training barn was the barn of last resort for many a ruined horse.

Many things went wrong in the barn where the horses were boarded. I had a blown-up finally with the owner, and as the results of this..and actually even before it happened, I feared for one of my horses. I felt something was wrong, but could not fathom exactly what the problem was. I was trying to hold off moving the horses because by then, we were within about nine months of having our own barn. However, after the blow-up, I knew that the one horse needed to be moved immediately, and the other two as fast as I could find a place. Knowing that this dressage trainer had a wonderful reputation, I took my stallion to her...for training, but also for safety. The other two horses were moved to a facility that could not accomodate our stallion. A short time after the stallion was moved, we found out that the boarding barn owner had been shooting him point blank in his stall with a bebe gun. Always remember, for those of you who board, to trust your gut feelings about the safety of your horses, even if it looks safe on the surface.

NoDQhere

Jul. 17, 2008, 03:20 PM

Through Eventing, too :lol: because you HAD to. My SO became disenchanted with the AQHA pleasure horse industry, gave Eventing a try, then fell in love with Dressage. For both of us, it is the training and development of the young horse that makes Dressage so special. :)

exvet

Jul. 17, 2008, 03:29 PM

Well I was "introduced" through pony club but I hated it. My instructor of course told me I had to do it if I wanted to go on the cross country course they had at their place; so, I suffered through (as did she :winkgrin:). We moved and there was no pony club so I joined the hunter ranks. However, when I was in vet school I had a TB mare who I had purchased in college as an 18 month old and was to be my horse for the greens. Well though she was elegant and a beautiful mover she could not jump her way out of a paper bag; so, I didn't want to sell the horse and had a classmate who was really into dressage. She was the real instigator. As a result I decided to go over to "the other side". Other than a few brief visits back to my past I really have never looked back...that was 20 years ago.

undersaddle

Jul. 17, 2008, 03:43 PM

I was a hunter rider at the time but wanted to strengthen my position ( I had been riding at a show barn where perch and pose was the name of the game). I just felt that I wasn't connecting with my rides and wanted to ride and show, not just go around looking the part. Well, I was working with three trainers a hunter, a classical dressage, and my show coach. I got frustrated with hunterland and felt I was bettering myself as a rider and trainer with dressage. I chose to give up the hunter ring for a while to focus more on dressage (became a WS). I have since gone back to coaching and training others in hunters and jumpers but, continue dressage (and combined training) for me.

magickmeadow

Jul. 17, 2008, 03:51 PM

As a child I rode ponies, donkeys, etc. bareback or western. When I went to Germany, I took the opportunity to take lessons for a few years. I really took dressage lessons because I planned on eventing. When I returned to the US, I rode hunters, Arabs, a little eventing, retrained a few OTTB's for myself, ran a breeding barn for a veterinarian, and eventually made my way back to riding dressage for myself.

slc2

Jul. 17, 2008, 03:52 PM

always liked dressage from a very young age, early on, got interested in dressage thru learning about the spanish riding school and being in a Lipizanner club that had YOUNG Karl Mikolka as a 'pen pal', early on, rode like most kids do - very early lessons with Jack Frohm, Roger Young, trail riding, jumping, just having fun, herding cattle, riding hunt seat, western, saddle seat/gaited, working on different farms, had a number of different barn jobs in different areas, one that included jogging standarbreds, one legging up hunters, one breaking ponies, first consistent dressage lessons at Sharon Rowe's barn on a High Pastures Farm Morgan horse named BRUCE!

Jeepers

Jul. 17, 2008, 03:55 PM

My friend brainwashed me :lol:

CosMonster

Jul. 17, 2008, 04:01 PM

I grew up riding hunters and jumpers, got burned out and felt I needed to focus on my position. I probably called 20 instructors, both h/j and dressage, who were known for producing riders with excellent equitation. One called me back, and he happened to be dressage trainer, and the best one in the area no less. After taking a couple of lessons with him I could never go back. :)

Roan

Jul. 17, 2008, 04:05 PM

I started riding when I was 4 - stock seat. Did WP, reining, cutting, all sorts of stuff. Got tired of the QH and Paint world BS politics and by the time I was in my mid-20s I wanted something different. Started riding at an Arab barn and one day they put me on a little Arab gelding named "Little Man". Cindy walked me through "cycling the energy" (that's back in the 80s and that's how she put it). I felt the front end of that horse LIFT in the most awesome way and the POWER I felt from his butt LIFTING and PUSHING. . . WOW, what a rush!

Anyhow, I quit shortly after that and when I started riding again a couple of years ago I decided that I wanted that rush :D

Eileen

dwblvr

Jul. 17, 2008, 05:30 PM

Dressage was the only style of riding that was taught where I went for lessons 30 years ago. The family was from Germany and all rode/taught. The father had been an officer in the German calvalry. Amazing rider and tough as nails teacher! Each lesson we worked without stirrups regardless of our level - evil work, but it paid off! I went to college and did the whole hunter scene for about a year and hated it, never went back because it felt like i was "undoing" all of the training I had for several years. Dressage Rocks!:yes::yes:

Tonja

Jul. 17, 2008, 08:28 PM

My family has raised horses for generations. As a kid I rode horses bareback, until I was strong enough to lift the western saddles onto the horses’ backs. One of the many books on horses in my grandfather’s library was Horsemanship, by Waldemar Seunig. I loved the quiet, thoughtful approach to training that Seunig described. I also liked the soft expression the horses had in the photographs of that book. As a teenager I found that, by following the principles Seunig explained, I could start young horses in a very serene, uneventful manner. The easy success I had with this horse-friendly classical approach made me want to learn more. As an adult I searched for years and was fortunate to finally find an instructor who teaches the classical methods that Seunig had taught and written about.

grayarabpony

Jul. 17, 2008, 11:39 PM

Tonja, I think I would like to read that book. Hopefully Amazon carries it.

mypaintwattie

Jul. 18, 2008, 12:02 AM

Saw Carroll Lavell and Gifted do thier GP Freestyle at the National Horse Show when I was a kid. Flash forward to high school, got tired of my working student position at a H/J barn, so approached the dressage trainer at my barn (happened to be Kathleen Raine) for a position with her. Worked for her for the next 5 years until she moved, managed the barn for the next trainer who moved in (Kenn Acebal) for about 3 years, then life/school got in the way for a few years, bought a youngster, and now find myself back in the H/J world but still dabbling in the lower level stuff....

BaroquePony

Jul. 18, 2008, 12:19 AM

Grew up in a family that had horses for generations.

Began riding when I was three.

Under instruction began practicing dressage movements around age nine, but it was called schooling on the flat. Was in the saddle for hours at a time. Bending, balance seat, independent seat. Learned that a fence is "just another stride". Studied Training Hunters, Jumpers (Harry D. Chamberlin) and Hacks and Dressage (Henry Wynmalen) and others and have basically always followed a resistance free training method.

Retrained several out-of-control open jumpers using all of the lower and medium level dressage movements and the one fence at a time approach. Took them back into competition where they did slow methodical balanced canters instead of break neck runs over five and a half foot courses.

Rode my first dressage test at age fourteen on the recommendation of my instructor at Stoneleigh-Burnham and had not clue why someone would ever ride in a ring with no jumps.

Got married, moved out west. Rode in a western saddle for the first time. Got lost in wilderness riding for about six years. Learned a HUGE amount about horses from old time cowboys. Had a ball. Learned more about real horsemanship than I thought could ever exist.

Got back into an english saddle when my aunt sent me one in the mail (weird?) as a present.

Ran into an A Pony Clubber that had also moved out west. We began to get back into the whole dressage and jumping thing and wilderness riding.

Friend of mine called and told me there was going to be a Bengt Ljungquist clinic in Tucson AZ and I should really think about attending.

Packed up my pony and went to the clinic.

The first thing Bengt Ljungquist bellowed at me was. "I see no jumps in this arena." Yikes. Spent the next hour doing the sitting trot. Met Belinda Boudin (Nairn). Was impressed and inspired by her riding and her horse and what flat work alone could be.

After that I became much more serious about dressage as an art form.

FancyFree

Jul. 18, 2008, 12:24 AM

My long time trainer was an eventer. She would show hunter/jumpers, dressage and three day. I got more into dressage after I started my eventing trainer moved. I started working with a GP trainer and, because of her, I was able to take a lot of fantastic clinics. So I quit my jumping lessons and did dressage exclusively.

Gucci Cowgirl

Jul. 18, 2008, 01:20 AM

always wanted to ride, but my parents refused to support it...so I got a job on weekends cleaning stalls in exchange for one lesson every week. Just so happens that the person who's stalls I was cleaning was one of the top riders in canada, and now in the world.

first horse I ever rode was a 18 yr old 17.1 HH dutch stallion who was trained to GP and went to the Olympics with my boss/trainer. Started riding the non-retired competition horses in warm-up and cool-downs, then in lessons, then was allowed to ride client horses in lessons, then was given my own client horses to ride, and was put in charge of all client and boss's int'l show horses whenever she was out of town, or had a day off. Got to ride hundreds of horses of all levels, from unbroke 3 yr old QH's to past and current olympic team horses. it was amazing that it just kind of fell into my lap.

kept up being a WS for this woman for 6 years and have never looked back. Have only paid for 2 lessons in my life, and both were from clinicians I rode with here in AZ.

Ibex

Jul. 18, 2008, 01:57 AM

Rode a little as a kid; wanted to event. I didn't ride for 20 years, and then started again as an adult, at an eventing barn.

About two months after I started back, I was transferred to the west coast, and eventually found a barn that happened to be a dressage/eventing barn. I was leasing whatever was available until the trainer offered me her old mare, who happened to be schooled to PSG but retired to lower levels due to an injury. She was an incredible schoolmaster, and we had a great year together until she became irrivocably lame in January (nothing to do with the original injury), and eventually had to be put down. She was coincidentally the daughter of the stallion GC learned to ride on.

Started leasing a fantastic ex-prelim eventer... and realised how badly I missed riding a horse that actually likes dressage. I'm now the proud owner of a 3yo CSH (SWB/TB) mare... she may end up being an eventer, but we think she'll probably be a lovely dressage horse as well.

Dressage Art

Jul. 18, 2008, 02:13 AM

I wanted to be a 3 day eventer, but my mom didn't allow me to jump - thus dressage.

Lgd1

Jul. 18, 2008, 04:35 AM

Always enjoyed dressage but 'got into it' properly when my eventer decided that the showjumping phase was not to her liking once they got bigger (she'd jump big XC fences fine - go figure :rolleyes: )

Got hooked, she took me to Inter I and I'll be starting her daughter under saddle next year.

egontoast

Jul. 18, 2008, 06:26 AM

Eventing.

I was the weird kid who actually liked the dressage phase, although I loved cross country as well.

Tonja

Jul. 18, 2008, 09:19 AM

Grayarabpony wrote:
Tonja, I think I would like to read that book. Hopefully Amazon carries it.
Horsemanship, by Seunig can be a tough read but it’s one of those books that becomes more meaningful as the riding journey progresses. :cool: Trafalgar Square has reprinted Horsemanship as a classic so it shouldn’t be too hard to find.

slc2

Jul. 18, 2008, 09:24 AM

he stated in an interview that he had some very serious regrets with how it was translated to english, saying that he felt it caused a lot of misunderstanding and incorrect riding, particularly in the sections on the use of the rider's back and seat, which he did not intend to be translated as they were.

BaroquePony

Jul. 18, 2008, 10:09 AM

Originally posted by slc2:

caused a lot of misunderstanding and incorrect riding, particularly in the sections on the use of the rider's back and seat, which he did not intend to be translated as they were.

I read the same thing about Museler's book, Riding Logic. Except there were also illustrations in Riding Logic so I always wondered about the comment that all the stuff about the "bracing of the back" was incorrect.

Since I have heard many instructor's use that phrase also, and it makes sense when put together with a few other pointers, I never quite understood how it could have been so incorrect.

Tonja

Jul. 18, 2008, 11:12 AM

slc2 wrote:
he stated in an interview that he had some very serious regrets with how it was translated to english, saying that he felt it caused a lot of misunderstanding and incorrect riding, particularly in the sections on the use of the rider's back and seat, which he did not intend to be translated as they were.
Funny, slc2, I seem to remember you writing almost this exact thing about Museler's book, Riding Logic a while back.

Seunig’s Horsemanship can be a difficult read and it can indeed be misunderstood. Nevertheless, its information is invaluable in the study of the classical riding art. Fortunately Seunig has left an indelible stamp on his students so misunderstandings can still be easily rectified.

egontoast

Jul. 18, 2008, 11:33 AM

read the same thing about Museler's book, Riding Logic. Except there were also illustrations in Riding Logic so I always wondered about the comment that all the stuff about the "bracing of the back" was incorrect.

That's funny , because I typed out the exact same response, wondering if SLc was getting them mixed up but decided not to post and so avoid another personal attack from herself.

Sdhaurmsmom

Jul. 18, 2008, 11:37 AM

I got started because I had done a partial lease of my distance trail horse, and the rider had her messed up to the point that she became somewhat crazed and out of control, even after the lease was discontinued...the thin veneer of training I'd been able put on her was completely blown off and she reverted to 'resistant green' level.

Someone at my barn was taking lessons from a dressage instructor and after seeing me trying to deal with my crazed weasel of a mare, recommended that I try a few lessons with him....I did, and it was quite magical - I was hooked immediately, even though my horse and I struggled mightily (glutton for punishment and not attracted to the path of least resistance, I guess!)

I think what got me, really, was seeing him get on her and turn her, almost instantaneously, into a better-going, better-looking horse who was focusing. WOW! Thank you David Ventura!:yes:

Janet

Jul. 18, 2008, 01:40 PM

Saw "The White Horses of Vienna" when it was first released, and saw the SRS in the flesh on their first American tour, and later that year in Vienna.

When I got a horse of my own and joined Pony Club, we were VERY lucky to have an ex-SRS dressage instructor (Werner Plazter), and he was a great inspiration. A "yavolle" (sp?) from him was worth any number of blue ribbons.

Home Again Farm

Jul. 18, 2008, 02:27 PM

After brief formal lessons, I rode by the seat of my pants strictly for fun as a kid. Did not ride during high school. After marriage and a time in Panama as a young married woman, came back to where I grew up in N FL in the early 1970s and reconnected with my first riding instructor who introduced me to a university professor who had read Seunig, Museler, Podhaisky, etc. She loaned me her little Morgan mare that she had trained through about second level. From there I was totally addicted.

Watching dressage go from almost unheard of to a very popular form of riding and showing has been interesting to say the least. I have every issue of Dressage and CT ever published in my library. :yes:

Wish I had had more talent for it. Also wish that I had learned more earlier and had progressed more before age / injuries put an end to any serious riding. But I certainly loved the journey, such as it was.

These days I let my trainer ride, but I still watch and learn and enjoy. :yes:

rabicon

Jul. 18, 2008, 02:36 PM

I've always rode hunter/jumpers and some barrel racing and a lot of stuff inbetween. The horse I bought a year ago I did some hunters with but he wasn't suited for it (alot of knee action and a higher head carriage) so one day I decided that he would make a beautiful dressage horse and so 6 months ago we started. The rest is history ;) We are doing great, still in intro but moving up to training 1 this weekend. Took a while to get him properly balanced and moving out and alot of work on myself with my hunter perch :eek: Also I didn't realize how weak I was until I started dressage :eek: :winkgrin: We do a lot of c/t's also. I think I will be sticking to dressage for a long long time. I would like to advance up to GP level or higher oneday :yes:

slc2

Jul. 18, 2008, 03:01 PM

No, you guys are right, I got the two books mixed up. :no:

Actually not the books but the article about the book.

Muesler was the one who didn't like how his book was translated.

I'm not sure I'll remember correctly what he didn't like about the translation!!! I think I read that article about 15 or so years ago....

Ok. I think it was that his book, with the discussion of bracing the back, led to alot of that 'having sex with the saddle' thing of pushing and pushing with the seat.

He felt the word choice in the translation wasn't right.

I thought he passed away STILL dissatisfied about the book. I can't recall where I read the article. Maybe in Dressage and CT.

His idea of using the back and seat was more sutble and classical than that 'pumping on a swing' analogy.

My SO is a translator and talks about this problem alot, that specific words give a certain impression and can be misleading in technical translation. I think he found a copy of Muesler's book in German at one point. I don't own one, my copy is in English, he just pointed it out to me.

stryder

Jul. 18, 2008, 03:12 PM

I'm more than two years into my dressage journey, and I love the challenge!

I grew up riding western in Arizona - no formal lessons, we just got on and rode, just about every day. Some timed events, a tiny bit of reining, mostly trail riding.

Fast forward, oh, let's say 30+ years and now I'm in the PNW, wanting to get back into horses and looking at the options available to me. The idea of western pleasure, under cover most of the winter, just made my brain go numb. I'd read some about dressage and thought I could learn from books and videos. Uh, no. Found a good classical trainer and started over.

I can't imagine showing, but am very satisfied with how far we've come. Last week's lesson I nailed my first flying change. My sweet mare will piaffe when I'm properly balanced, and really do about anything I ask. Sometimes my DH will take videos of us, and I'm always (quite pleasantly) surprised at how we look - relaxed, happy and fairly smooth. So much still to learn, but I'm certainly enjoying the journey!

Beasmom

Jul. 18, 2008, 03:31 PM

I got my first horse in Texas in 1965. At the barn where we boarded, everyone rode Western -- and badly, too. I witnessed a lot of abusive riding and got turned off to Western. (Don't flame me, all you Western folks! Since those days I've seen thoughtful, sympathetic Western riders.)

Anyway, so I'm thinking there must be a better way to deal with horses than the "get a bigger bit" school of riding. About the same time, my grandmother Ruth bought me a book about the Spanish Riding School. I was inspired by the description of the training of both horse and rider -- THIS was the better way! I had to learn this DRESSage!

Fortunately, there was an old Hungarian ex-patriate, Miklos de Vargha, who gave lessons on the far side of Fort Worth. God bless my parents for footing the bill and driving me to and from my lessons with that old man!

But first, we had to learn how to pronounce "dressahhge"!

twnkltoz

Jul. 18, 2008, 03:51 PM

I saw some at an Arab sporthorse show and thought, "that looks easy. I can do that."

Yeah...I know better now.

Phyxius

Jul. 18, 2008, 04:32 PM

I guess I'm "born again". I did eventing when I was younger, but dressage was our weakest part. My previously western QH mare was not a fan of dressage so we never got very far and just had fun instead. :) So, the lower levels in eventer land are boring!

Well, then I went "circus" and worked with the horses at Medieval Times here in Maryland. That was so much fun! Then, I bought Peanut and he likes just about everything so we do just about everything. :)

MT - Sentado, piaffe on long lines - http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a43/_phyxius_/setadow.jpg

MT - Midnight - Friesian getting ready to go schooling, ignore my brown boots. - http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a43/_phyxius_/midnight.jpg

MT - Menudo - Levade u/s - http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a43/_phyxius_/cvnmrear1.jpg

MT - Faraon - Passage - http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a43/_phyxius_/cnppassage.jpg

Vesper Sparrow

Jul. 18, 2008, 05:09 PM

As a 50-some rerider, I took up Western because I thought it would be easier for my out-of-shape body. I ended up with a very good Western instructor and was gravitating towards the more dressagey aspects of Western (unlike most of her students who hated the picky stuff and just wanted to do barrels or poles). But there was something missing, and I knew I eventually wanted to go back to English and try real dressage.

So I switched to an eventing barn and told my coach that I eventually wanted to do dressage. I also bugged and bugged her about leasing a horse and she eventually found me a lovely old TB mare who was an ex-eventer--and thankfully not the Hanoverian foxhunter that I had originally wanted to lease! After about a year of English basics, we started dressage lessons and I haven't looked back. My horse has been a wonderful teacher and the better I get, the more demanding she gets. She is preparing me very well for my 3 year old, who we will start working with this winter.

NRB

Jul. 18, 2008, 08:59 PM

I come from a family that always rode for pleasure for generations. I grew up riding scruffy ponies in my grandmothers field. Started taking lessons when I was 8 or 9. Lessons were from Czech Instructor that had evented in his country, then he came to the US and worked for Temple Farms and later Gary Lashinsky. He settled down in WV and was our local trainer. In the beginning never knew I was learning "Dressage" it was just plain riding to me for many years. Heck I thought everyone rode shoulder in......Got into eventing as a kid, still event now, but dressage is the easiest phase!

Roan

Jul. 21, 2008, 03:13 PM

. . .MT - Sentado, piaffe on long lines - http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a43/_phyxius_/setadow.jpg
. . .

I SO want a saddle pad like that, but without the fringes and the lion. Want want want!!!

Eileen

Fancy That

Jul. 21, 2008, 08:01 PM

I was introduced to dressage through eventing. How about you?

I was the typical ex H/J type who fell in love with cross-country (via Hunter Paces with local hunt club) and got interested in eventing. So - we had to work on our dressage :)

Phyxius

Jul. 21, 2008, 08:40 PM

I SO want a saddle pad like that, but without the fringes and the lion. Want want want!!!

Eileen

They're all handmade, you can get the fabric (a sort of velvety stuff) from most fabric stores. :) It's hard to see there but the applique isn't rampant lion, it's actually a horse. :)

I also like these, which are actually used for the quadrille.
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j51/phyxiusfoto/Dressage%20At%20Devon/mtvcap2.jpg

Here you can see the blue one a little better -
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j51/phyxiusfoto/Dressage%20At%20Devon/mt2.jpg

Ambrey

Jul. 21, 2008, 08:44 PM

Phyxius, my daughter had her birthday at Medieval Times two years in a row. I always thought Smokey would fit right in.

I love your photos!

Roan

Jul. 21, 2008, 11:26 PM

They're all handmade, you can get the fabric (a sort of velvety stuff) from most fabric stores. :) It's hard to see there but the applique isn't rampant lion, it's actually a horse. :)

I also like these, which are actually used for the quadrille.
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j51/phyxiusfoto/Dressage%20At%20Devon/mtvcap2.jpg

Here you can see the blue one a little better -
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j51/phyxiusfoto/Dressage%20At%20Devon/mt2.jpg

My sewing machine is packed away and I just don't have time to tackle something like that. I think I've found someone that will make one for me -- seamless, too, for my Ansur saddle.

Thanks for the extra pics!

Eileen

grayarabpony

Jul. 23, 2008, 11:40 AM