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Thank you everyone for the feedback. While I appreciate everyone's recommendations for stallrest and just rest in general, I want to emphasize that I haven't trotted my horse or left her in the...

I'm looking for some people to share some experiences with suspensory and hock injuries. My mare came up lame at the trot 6 weeks ago (presumably she did something out in the pasture). After two...

Even the horsey people who I consider well-off have their budget limits. Many of them come from pretty modest backgrounds - they've just worked their way up to high paying jobs. The same people can...

I've been working on this release for the past two weeks in lessons. I have never felt so uncoordinated in my life! My trainer has a few extra steps involved - she's having me exaggerate this a bit...

Thank you everyone for all the suggestions. You've given me a lot to think about and a lot to ask my trainer about. I am more than willing to concede that the problem is me. But it is frustrating to...

Here is the bit I have now:
http://www.smartpakequine.com/stubben-loose-ring-snaffle--copper-mouth-4838p.aspx?cm_mmc=paidfeeds-_-froogle-_-NA-_-2109684511

I am a new to dressage rider (taking lessons for past 2 years). My horse doesn't know too much dressage either - just what we have learned in the past two years. I finally got my dressage tack and...

After consulting with my trainer and all the other shorter riders I know, I took a gamble and purchased a Hulsebos saddle on ebay. My trainer really loves these saddles. I haven't gotten it in the...

Thank you for all the responses!

In case anyone else reads this looking around, I thought I'd add my feedback on what I've learned in the last few days. I got to ride in a friend's Trilogy with 15...

I have been combing through this pdf:

http://www.usef.org/documents/licensedOfficials/2004/dressequip.pdf

but I can't find any reference if certain types of metal bits are legal. Does anyone...

I have been looking around online for a used dressage saddle.
I'm 5'1 and weigh 110. I have been cautioned by several people that the flaps on most saddles will be too long for me. If you are...

Do you have access to a good dressage instructor? Lots of dressage, where you focus on rocking back on the hind end and riding with the shoulders up, haunches in, shoulders in - all these things...

I'm a novice rider. I own a very mellow 13 yo QH who doesn't have a ton of training. After two years of riding around with a loop in my reins and constantly kicking my horse to make her go, my HJ...

My mare is grumpy. She can also be very sweet. She is mostly grumpy around other horses, but sometimes is grumpy with me in very predictable ways.

Her chest and belly are very ticklish. I work on...

Do you work on half halts at all? You can use them to get your horse on the bit when they are hollow and to lighten up their front end. When my mare gets tired, she wants to fall onto her forehand...

In Texas, we have similar winter weather to California - it can be 30 at night and 65 during the day. My mare grows a fine, short winter coat. I think that she is comfortable down to about 30 if it...

His build and attitude sound like my mare. My trainer taught her lead changes, but they were always disjointed and we were often halfway around the ring before we got them. We started dressage...

I wonder if anyone has used this on deep cuts and what their experience was?

My mare cut the inside of her hock a week ago - she was reportedly fighting with another mare all morning in the...

For the record, mares can totally be in heat during any time of the year. Last winter, she would just stop in the middle of the ride and point her butt in the direction of the gelding pasture. The...

I know people that have taken dressage horses on trial for a week or so. As other people have mentioned, the trainer network here is key. Usually the people willing to send their horse to stay at...

You may want to just keep an eye on her before adding grain. My mare - super easy keeper - has been on hay all summer. Usually her pasture has grass, but with the drought, nothing there are only a...

My friend and I had a little problem on the trail the other day. It all worked out, but I wonder if there is another way we could have handled this problem?

We had two dominant mares -pasture...

My horse has a downhill build and we've been working on staying uphill during upward and downward transitions quite a bit lately.

I do lots of halt - trot transitions, rein backs, turns on the...

I agree with the other posters that you need to work through this. I've been there and it does get better. Maybe you can sign up to take lessons when some of this - especially the horses...

I am not sure about Houston, but in Austin the allergens are always high. Although you would think nothing is growing with the drought ....
But allergens can definitely affect breathing as well.
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