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LOVE my Schleese Pouvoir! I've had it adjusted 4 times since getting my current horse and each time I just fall in love all over again.

I'm honestly not sure of brand. I've had them for a while now since I had bought them for my last horse. They're just simple double Velcro closure ones. She's had them on for a week now.

For me it's finding a happy medium. I tend to have times where I can hardly drag myself onto the horse and others when all I can think about is getting to the barn. I end up either getting nothing...

My young mare just had front shoes put on for the first time since leaving the track over 2 years ago. The footing at the farm I'm boarding at isn't the best and I was noticing some funky wear and...

Now in concerned with the automatic water comments.

My mare just started dunking after moving to a barn with automatic waterers.

All I know is that what I am seeing is enough to make me daydream about being there. Productivity successfully going down the tube...

Thinline pad maybe?

I heard somewhere that adding witch hazel to a bucket of cold water when you cool them down can help?

Pollen counts are absurdly high in Pa this year. I've been taking allergy meds daily just to function.

It could be almost anything. I wonder where their bedding came from?

Trainer friend thought it would be a good idea to take my baby to a rated show this past weekend so she could get a feel of the atmosphere and scary jumps (since we've yet to find her a scary fence...

Trainer has heard me talking about dropping my irons during my hacks...so she decided to help and took them last night during my lesson. What I learned:

Things jiggle a lot more now then when I...

At 5 my TB is just starting to not look like a bull dog and is getting withers. She just recently went a little rump high again. I'm not terribly concerned yet.

I just saw an amazingly adorable little hunt coat at a very small local tack shop. Like small in the corner of the local Agway small. It was gray with white and purple checks. Simply stunning. I...

I did two point no stirrups last night at the walk. I had forgotten how much that hurts. Some trotting, posting without stirrups. Baby horse was trying to figure out wth I was doing back there....

What if you wrap the chain in vet wrap? Stop the jingle and movement and maybe he won't find it as entertaining or distracting? My OTTB is also very entertained by chains...lead shanks, cross...

I just started today. I forgot how much it hurts! But my greenie is jumping me out of the tack so it's needed.

Another trick I had a trainer show me once, but probably not the best to do jumping. Also have a trustworthy horse. Pick up the canter and take the reins into one hand and hold the free hand over...

I usually find myself singing the Ants go Marching, if the radio isn't playing.

My Harwich from Smartpak gets the job done just fine.

I'm just wondering how everyone goes about starting the lead change process.

Canter to walk to canter?
Canter to trot to canter?

Any other options you find that work?

Love the story! And I love that The Chronicle is doing stories on these wonderful thoroughbreds!

The conditioner? My right boot is rubbing my heal when walking and they still need to sink more.

The last time I worked with my green bean I noticed that her curved snaffle mouth d-ring was leaving marks on the sides of her face. I think I'm going to take her up to a 5.25 inch mouth but I'm...

I saw an article in an overseas magazine one time that used a kind of fat length of rope instead of a crop. I can't remember what she called it but it reminded kind of of a barrel racers over under...

Alas...I already dug out P's old ankle boots and those wouldn't have saved her. They don't protect low enough for where the new girl got herself.