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What is the $50 difference between auditing and spectating?

This is what I completely don't get.

Sometimes I want to ask people, "OK, if you saw some anonymous poster on COTH typing out what your trainer **just said** and asking if this was a good idea,...

Do whatever you did that got them good before he went to the hunter trainer.
If it worked before, it will work again.

It's just the general human condition where a truly surprising number of people can't help themselves.

Like, just because successfully cooking rice by reading the instructions in the side of the...

Between now and fall you should have plenty of time to jump him over plenty of different jumps and trailer off the property a few times to go hop over their spooky stuff.

Let him see it and ride...

For a dressage saddle pad I just had SmartPak monogram it "OTTB." Easy, and free if you have barn buddies.

Being a demo rider is all about donating your time and your horse to the demo. The time is not for you. Therefore I will donate my time and gas, but I will not pay extra to do it.

There is also a...

I saw nothing in the video which indicated to me that the horse was not ready, mentally, physically, or training-wise for the exercises presented.

Let the horse tell you what he is ready for.
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Considering the fact that I own an 8yo chromey chestnut with four white hooves who is schooling canter pirouettes and tempis and also jumps 3'6+ when we get around to schooling for hunter shows, goes...

Is it bad that as I skimmed this post I mentally completed the phrase "Brice pops his head out..."?

I added three words.

Guess which ones.

Once again, everyone.
My plan is not to show up half cocked and yahoo this horse around a cross country course like a bat out of hell.

As I have stated, I have every intention of schooling the...

Ok, thank you everyone for taking the time to type out a response, but I don't know where people are getting the idea that my plan is to just show up at an event without ever having schooled cross...

That also sounds very interesting, and not too far away either.

Let me just clarify things about BN: the jumps are small right? I am pretty brave in the h/j ring but for cross country I would...

Oh wow, I missed the part where you have NEITHER your money NOR any saddle.

That's some expensive air floating over your saddle rack, there.

Good Lord.

Dude, that sounds like all kinds of kick-ass and awesome.

I would be so into that.

Hello eventers

I am normally a hunter rider who has an eventing suitable horse that I would like to take around the most beginner possible three-phase for some sale pics and a check mark on his...

I don't understand how taking back the original saddle, that was supposed to fit but did not, is a "trade in" instead of a "return".

If I order a horse blanket in a size 80, and the company messes...

Depending on where you are located, there are also saddle fitters who sell Black Country as one of the brands they work with. For example, Colleen at Advanced Saddle Fit www.advancedsaddlefit.com...

And to think that high quality full custom saddles, fitted by reputable, certified fitters who know what they are doing so the saddle fits on the first try, and who will keep the horse's measurements...

I drive an hour to the barn one way and see a distance to every line, pothole and bridge. Sometimes doing the add I go 55 in the left lane. Whoops.

I count strides to the curb when I cross the...

I have a young horse that I suspect is still growing and he goes in a saddle that a saddle fitter fitted to him with a ProLite pad underneath. The pad makes the saddle fit a little bit narrower and...

Here's a trick:

When he flings his head up in the air, swing the buckle end of the reins gently over his nose.

Pull down.

Grab his head.

Voila.

Are you kidding?
In my post I advocated deliberately making myself uncomfortable?
Where did I do that?
I assure you, I have no problems and experience zero discomfort lasting the 20 to 40 minutes...

If it takes the Harvard contingent an entire grilled-shrimp-salad-interspersed day to read 60 pages, then they could keep the entire shrimp industry in business before they could finish "Grooming to...

Try to work on a lateral (side to side) as opposed to a longitudinal (up and down over the back and neck) yield.

Think of riding two lines of the horse: the inside edge and the outside edge.
You...