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May. 16, 2013, 06:41 PM
OOoh, she's beeeyoutiful.
Can' think of a barn name, unless you want to be silly and call her Goldilocks.
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May. 16, 2013, 06:05 PM
And to clarify, by 'backup aid' I don't mean 'back the horse up', I mean apply an aid strongly enough that it is effective. Such as, if a horse is...
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May. 16, 2013, 06:00 PM
Do Not Nag.
Be polite, offer a 'good deal', a 'light aid' or a 'feel', first, every single time.
If your horse does not respond, do enough to be...
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May. 13, 2013, 04:29 PM
I've been gone for a bit...
Oxbow stirrups are designed to ride with your foot all the way through, the 'english' description would be having the...
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May. 13, 2013, 03:14 PM
I think from what you describe, that was the 'helpless newborn herd member' reaction.
Not all critters have it, but it will be highly developed...
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May. 6, 2013, 06:40 PM
I'll disagree with Rod Nikkel, though I readily admit he knows more than I do, by a LONG ways, about making a good tree.
The term 'snaffle' has...
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May. 6, 2013, 04:06 PM
Yeah, she's too thin.
Any more weight loss will be muscle loss, she has almost no fat cover but doesn't look to have lost muscle just yet.
And I...
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May. 6, 2013, 03:58 PM
My thoughts?
They might sound a bit harsh, but the intent is to get you to take a closer look, and go find the help you need before you get...
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May. 6, 2013, 03:43 PM
Oh, and of course the newer dressage saddles with enormous thigh blocks have been designed to create a platform for someone to 'comfortably' pull...
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May. 6, 2013, 03:21 PM
Yeah, the Wade is In Style for sure.
A proper Wade tree will ride like a dressage saddle, and by design its post horn sits lower, closer to the...
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May. 5, 2013, 08:52 PM
Hear, hear!
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May. 5, 2013, 08:43 PM
Yep, looking at that pic. Looks like the horse has a bit of a sway to his back, and high withers, but nothing else is really sticking out.
Looks...
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May. 5, 2013, 08:20 PM
I don't know if you have any more recent pictures, but this horse looks nowhere near thin to me in the Craigslist ad.
If indeed he IS an easy...
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May. 5, 2013, 10:56 AM
Ray Hunt went from good hand to extraordinary horseman, when he went through this with a horse named Hondo. Ray went looking for help, and found Tom...
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May. 4, 2013, 02:45 PM
I had a Perchy/TB cross gelding, and he had a great gallop but no canter at all.
It took a LOT of time. His major issue was that his breakover...
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May. 4, 2013, 02:36 PM
I am a little conflicted about having a horse really well turned out for a big show.
I do think that having the horse in the appropriate weight...
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May. 4, 2013, 01:22 PM
Beautiful, really neat horses. I was one of those disappointed to see the tight side reins, though. The comparison of the mare on the longe line (her...
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May. 4, 2013, 11:34 AM
Pocketpony, I think you just described very well the magic of riding in a Buck clinic...your horse gets to where he is not braced, and his body is in...
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May. 3, 2013, 06:41 PM
Yup! That's right.
Pocketpony, I so wish I had time to drop by the fairgrounds last Monday, I was in town for a birthday party.
And I love Mac,...
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May. 3, 2013, 05:12 PM
NSP, great explanation for the non-musical types!
For anyone musical, you have to learn to count a 'pause' as a 'beat' as well as a noise (note,...
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May. 3, 2013, 01:30 PM
Well, there should absolutely be three distinct footfalls in the canter. But I have never seen a canter done right that would synch with a waltz.
If...
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Apr. 28, 2013, 06:54 PM
So sorry, Jennywho.
I put down my Border Collie two years ago. I always said that if/when the dog became incontinent due to old age/pain, that was...
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Apr. 28, 2013, 06:23 PM
I have a horse-smitten reader in my life.
When she was 7 I gave her all of my Margeurite Henry books, she's a smart cookie and an avid reader and...
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Apr. 28, 2013, 11:06 AM
From your video of the mare trotting on the longe line (from your blog), I would absolutely call this mare green.
She's hurrying along because she...
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Apr. 28, 2013, 10:39 AM
Oooh, thank you! It's set to record...
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Apr. 28, 2013, 10:35 AM
Well, yeah, I've heard of assembly-line gelding. "The vet gives them all a nice shot and they're all lying in a row in the grass, and just one after...
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Apr. 28, 2013, 10:15 AM
I'd be cautious of putting tabasco sauce on the lead rope, if he's in a situation where he might get the tabasco in his eyes. Tied in a trailer, he...
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Apr. 27, 2013, 06:10 PM
I would say a plain eggbutt, but I have run into several horses that just didn't like them.
So I do have one bridle, and pretty much ride everything...
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Apr. 27, 2013, 05:57 PM
I have trouble with this, too. I can't comfortably have my belt tight enough to where the mecate doesn't work its way back through and end up a...
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Apr. 26, 2013, 07:07 PM
I think Ray Hunt once said, about watching a western pleasure horse move, that if he saw any horse of his moving like that, out in the pasture, he'd...
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