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  • #161
    That's great Barbara. Glad you enjoyed it!!

    Glad to hear your babies okay today Gunnar.



    ReRiders Rock *grins*
    ReRiders Rock *grins*

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    • #162
      Rode a little today and worked on his canter, but he's still having trouble holding his stride behind :/ The cross-firing seems to be our biggest bugaboo... but mainly it was just too hot to do much. And our show next weekend is just halter, so no major mad panic... well, maybe a little, but it won't be about me getting in his way during a pleasure class

      Re-riders keep on riding

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      • #163
        Gunnar glad to hear that the surgery went well. sorry late in even knowing that it was happening...bbbuuuuuutttttt I have been just a tad bit busy this week.
        I brought the horsie home on tues and have been just watching him adjust. He is such a sweety pie and is loving the knee high grass in the pasture, cant wait to start his retraining.
        I figure next week I will start with the lunging then work form there at his comfort level dont want to push the guy he has only been off the track for about 2 mnths so want to be careful not to blow his mind in the process of retraining.
        Oh you mentioned a few pages ago about a class called go as you please I first ran into this calss when I was living in Va. Beach interesting class to say the least. Where I live now they have 2 interesting classes one is called 'Generation gap' that is where two riders ride the same horse w-t but there has to be like 15/20 yrs differance in age, guess it is to show the judge that while the horse is able to move quietly enough for a 'kid' to ride it can also be an acceptable mount for an adult. We also have the jack benny class which I qualtify in age for you have to be over 40 to ride in it...
        tish

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        • Original Poster
          #164
          Happy Mother Day to all.

          horseless you are not horseless. yeah.

          Cognac, good for you and your daughter.

          I am so sore but it feels great. Got to go be with Mother, who bought me that first riding lesson.

          Do not forget your mothers today and for those of us without children we are Mothers to so many others. Happy day to all.

          Have fun.

          "Angels fly because they take themselves lightly."

          Steph

          PS: "Don't forget your hat" (the roaming gnome)

          Rerider's Clique
          Steph

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          RIP Barbaro, you were my hero!

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          • #165
            Congrats, Horseless- so excited that your name no longer fits!

            And happiness for Gunnar and her Bodie, and to everyone else for having good lessons, for tackling the sore muscles (I firmly believe that getting on two days later is the only way to deal with it. Or drinking cocktails), and Happy Mother's Day, late tho it is!

            I told the wonderful trainer I ride for that I can't make that drive anymore due to the age and general crotchetiness of my poor car.

            So, I'm back at square one with nothing to ride- I'm looking for someone with some nice-ish h/j horses on her hands and not enough time to ride all of them. So wish me luck, Reriders! I didn't come this far only to fall back into stiff-muscled, bad form riding only once in a while!

            The (potentially) good news is that a friend of mine knows a woman who is going to be out of comission for a while due to surgery- well, that's not good, but she has a very fancy WB who needs an advanced rider...I'm hoping she'll think I'm suitable and I can have him for a couple of months! Keep your fingers crossed, please- I'm desperate to keep riding!

            You can take a line and say it isn't straight- but that wont change its shape. Jets to Brazil
            You can take a line and say it isn't straight- but that won't change its shape. Jets to Brazil

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            • #166
              I'm so happy for you horseless!!

              I guess I'd missed where you'd said you were getting a horse! Whoooohoooooo

              ReRiders Rock *grins*
              ReRiders Rock *grins*

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              • #167
                Horseless - what great news - congratulations. Are you going to change your name now?

                Hope everyone had a great mother's day, I know I did.

                Didn't really ride this weekend apart from my regular lesson on Friday. We went over the judge's remarks from the show the week before and practiced on what I had done wrong. I still have a really bad halt and am trying to figure that one out - any tips???

                Reriders keep on riding
                South Georgia Clique
                Why walk, when you can ride!
                Reriders keep on riding
                Why walk, when you can ride!

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                • #168
                  yeah thinking of changing it just havent decided on which one...
                  none of them really strike my fancy..
                  but yeah should change it cuz it no longer applies.
                  I dont think I really said anything on getting a horse just incase it fell through kwim...
                  offical member or the reriders clique

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                  • #169
                    horseless! Congrats! That's very exciting. How about changing your name to "horseless no more". LOL!

                    Mallard's Mom - what is bad about your halts? Is it the transition? Are they crooked? Best tip I can give is to make sure you're even with your aids in the transition so you don't end up crooked. I'm still battling this!

                    Gunnar glad to hear you got to have a lesson and jump! You are so right about those bending lines. My reactions on course need some serious tuning.

                    I took my boy on our first hack on Friday night. He was so good! We just went around the first field in a walk, but it was a big unknown so I'm glad to find out he enjoys it.

                    Editied to ask RegalBeagle how your show went on the weekend?!!

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                    • #170
                      thanks Jakeable, I guess I should post this in Dressage. I just don't stop very well, feels like I am stopping a freight train. Yes, we do swing out too. My trainer has been saying sit deep in saddle and lean slightly forward, legs back and make sure reins are even. We do start with the sitting trot, then going to a walk and a halt, but it just takes some force which is wrong. We are still in the learning stage, so I guess its practice, practice, practice.

                      Reriders keep on riding
                      South Georgia Clique
                      Why walk, when you can ride!
                      Reriders keep on riding
                      Why walk, when you can ride!

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                      • #171
                        Hey, MM- don't know if you have high rails since you are doing dressage, but one thing you might try, if you have the high rails in the arena, is using them as a mental sighting line, and a physical prop to make your horse stop evenly. For example, trot along one side, very straight, and right at the end, give your aids to stop- not the freight train aids, but instead the ones he *should* be listening to, keeping him as straight as you can and using the rail directly in front of you as a halting aid. Ride nice and deep but try not to tense up. If he doesn't stop, he'll bonk into the rail, so instead of depending on your hands and seat, he has to actually stop himself. It's a little like taking the moral highground- "Well, horse, *I* was doing what I was supposed to do- you have to do it, too!"

                        I used this a lot when working with a very dumb, tanklike Hanoverian jumper who likes to lean way down onto my hands and gets buried in the corners unless you are after him with your legs to move forward. When he realized he couldn't just barrel along without consequences, he started listening to my aids a lot better, so I was riding with very light contact instead of hanging on for dear life as he motored around. Lots of transitions, half-halts, and doing the straight down the rail and then halting at the end thingy, followed by a very straight back-up, or a turn-on-the-forehand (so, say he was on the top of the ring at the righthand corner, facing the short side. We would swing hindquarters around to the left, so he was now in the same corner but now facing the long end), followed by a very straight reverse and then either a nice, quiet stand, or a movement into a trot or canter from that position.

                        These may or may not be helpful things for you- but even just lots of transitions probably will. Good luck! Oh- and remember not to tense up- that may be one thing you are unconsciously doing and what you really want to be able to do is to relax into a nice quiet halt, not be perched up on your seatbones muscling your dumb horse to a halt! Also, keep your legs on- swinging his butt out is a terrible habit, and really annoying- but if you have your legs on him, you can adjust pressure to keep or get him straight again, and then hold him there.

                        You can take a line and say it isn't straight- but that wont change its shape. Jets to Brazil
                        You can take a line and say it isn't straight- but that won't change its shape. Jets to Brazil

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                        • #172
                          Thank you so much four socks. That is great advise. No we don't have any rails, just electric fencing - not sure I want to practice stopping and hitting that However, I could use the barn wall. Hmm, gotta rush home after work and practice that. I think you are right about the tensing up bit too.

                          Reriders keep on riding
                          South Georgia Clique
                          Why walk, when you can ride!
                          Reriders keep on riding
                          Why walk, when you can ride!

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                            #173
                            Good morning, how are we today. I am finally less sore from my riding on Friday and Saturday. Wow what 6 months off will do to an old body.

                            Bodie is doing well and on the mend!!!

                            Did you guys watch OLN broadcast of Modified 4**** at Kentucky. Grear coverage of the x country. whole hour of jumping. I think is on again on Fri at 9 PST. The show jumping portion is next sunday at 2:00 pst ??

                            Preakness this weekend? Any favorites beside Samrty Jones and my favorite Imperialism?

                            Olympic Selections; i am trying to get down there this weekend but $$$ and time are precioius. I may wait until the next weekend for the final selections. Any one else going?

                            Hey horseless any new news of your new horse. (new, new, new)

                            4socks, have you tried the horseless rider thread thing? I hope you find something.

                            Back to work I go. Have a great day.

                            "Angels fly because they take themselves lightly."

                            Steph

                            PS: "Don't forget your hat" (the roaming gnome)

                            Rerider's Clique
                            Steph

                            http://community.webshots.com/user/stephanne014

                            Rerider/Haydunker Clique

                            RIP Barbaro, you were my hero!

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                            • #174
                              well he is a 9yo ottb gelding ( but darn if he were a stallion still i could become very rich his daddy is/was unbridled course if he were a stallion i probably wouldnt have gotten him). I have some digi pic but can not find the usb cord to put them in puter think my husband has it with him on base...
                              Anywho he is a real sweetheart for a guy who has been off the track for about 2 months he is very calm and cuddly. I got him off the givaway board right here he is the gelding that alleged had posted.
                              He has a sore ankle which will need injected but he is already on one of the oral supplements and i have noticed he isnt as gimpy as he was so who knows maybe I can streach out the injections out a bit more. though i dont know will have to reasearch that a bit more.
                              I do know that he has found a perminate home here even after im unable to ride cuz my oldest son has fallen for him also and darling son used to go 'oh thats nice mom' when it came to horses but he is quite smitten by this guy.
                              he 'earned' his barn name the first night he was here he foundwhat had to be the only wire in the pasture ( i missed it on the many pasture walks before he got here to make sure it was horse 'proof') so to keep the flap of skin clean and in contact with the rest of his chest until the vet arrived at 10 am I used the only thing I had avalable duct tape ( lol did you know that has a life of about 5 minutes on horse hair???)so he has been dubbed duct tape.
                              mmm 'horseless no more' will that fit as a sn here???? lol someone did sugest 'the rider formerly known as horseless' but that is a mouth full...

                              MM this is going to sound 'silly'but it is true... stop/halt is actually a 'foward movement' so it sounds like your trainer is one the right path with that with the exception of slightly leaning foward. When i was training under charlotte bayley( got really lucky she happened to be married to my 2nd cousin at teh time) we were taught to sit deep and straight holding hands and a slightly driving leg. remember your circle of impulsion the motor is the hind end and the breaks are your seat and legs with a slight tap on the hands.)(which go to the mouth of course) so what your doing in a nut shell is much like you do when you are stopping your car. you are still driving your car(horse) and his motor is still engaged ( automatic trannsmission) and now you want to slow or stop so you leg up on the gas a bit ( legs and driving seat)but you dont want the car to stall( horse jolt to halt) so the gas is still going to motor but your breaks are applied a deep 'heavy seat' (undriving seat) with a hold on the reins. the way to accomplish the deep but still 'driving seat' is to brace the amall of your back( you know that feeling you get there when your opening a large jar of pickles while holding it under your arm big jar here that is what a braced back feels like)hold your hands from moving much foward. Unless i have forgotten anything your horse should stop smoothly without his face flying up with mouth open and straight and with out petering out. It has been a while since i had to think of the steps in doing this because i have been doing this since 1979/80 wihen i learned on a horse who would much rather break the current land speed record the stop or half halt... and after a while it just ame 'naturally' and she had one of the most beautiful stops a horse could have.
                              I hope this helps and I hope I rmembered all the steps.
                              *edited 1 time for a glaring typo*
                              offical member of the reriders clique

                              [This message was edited by horseless on May. 11, 2004 at 06:38 AM.]

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                              • #175
                                Horseless - congrats and fingers crossed for the ankle

                                Foursocks - I've got my fingers crossed for you that the WB comes available

                                I'm still doing a happy dance after a much improved performance at a show yesterday. I kept up my part of the bargain with an endless supply of carrots and Rover delivered on his end, toting my butt around the A/A ring. We won a class O/F, were 3rd in another, won the U/S and would have won the Stake except for a little technicality, I went off course. Seems I just had to jump the line I hated one more time. Judge by mistake called us back 1st. Hmmm. I can easily forgive myself for that little senior moment.

                                All in all a terrific lift for my confidence. So on we go tomorrow to do the $10 schooling at the first outdoor show in preparation for next weekend.

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                                • #176
                                  Thanks horseless (when's the new name coming?). I printed out your comments and am going to try and remember your directions - hah hah, If I paste them on Mallards neck it may help.

                                  I wanted to practice last night but we had our dressage club meeting so went and stuffed my face with brownies instead We have a fun games show planned for July. Lots of gymkhana type events, if anyone has some good games on horseback please PT and let me know, we are looking for ideas.

                                  Reriders keep on riding
                                  South Georgia Clique
                                  Why walk, when you can ride!
                                  Reriders keep on riding
                                  Why walk, when you can ride!

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                                  • #177
                                    <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Mallard's Mum:
                                    Thanks horseless (when's the new name coming?).
                                    We have a fun games show planned for July. Lots of gymkhana type events, if anyone has some good games on horseback please PT and let me know, we are looking for ideas.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

                                    There is a book out called "Games on Horseback" by Betty Bennett-Talbot and Steve Bennett. You can find it on Amazon. USPC also has a big games rally. You can look on their website (ponyclub.org) and select "Opportunities and Events" and choose "Games". You may find something there.

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                                    • #178
                                      Some WTC schooling for me yesterday and went pretty darned well.Pro wants Rei off all bute but he felt funky behind yesterday so it might be Legend time again.Warmup trot so lackluster that i bit the bullet . Cantered off , no impulsion. So for the first time I cantered with another horse cantering in the ring also...Voila!! Balanced, steady, workmanlike, but not rushing. THEN I got the trot I've waited 3 years for. You know, that big, light open Floater we keep seeing in turnout. WOO-HOO!!!

                                      " Found my 5 1/2 in fullcheek copper roller on COTH!!"
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                                      • #179
                                        New name alert here thanks jakeable for the sugestion.
                                        MM glad i can be of assistance let me know if you need more like i said i may have forgotten something and ill go fiddle around on a horse who is broke to ride well and see what i forgot.. Sorry fot the typos also but after 20+ yrs of trying to type and my fingers rebeling i dont think they will ever learn. lol..
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                                        • #180
                                          Irish Ei's-- I TOTALLY get what you mean about your horse trying so much harder when there is another in the ring. For Daisy, any sexy gelding will do and she's really picking up her feet. (otherwise she shuffles along with her arthritic little legs behind). The other night we shared the ring with a horse being lunged and his trainer was lightly cracking a long dressage whip on the ground. Anytime it struck the ground and the horse canterred she started really digging in and going for it, too. It would have been terrific except I was riding her bareback. GRIN

                                          Barbara

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