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Anne

Looking good, Flight! That was a very polite little nose flick. Your arena is gorgeous.

Anne

Crossing fingers exvet!!

Really enjoying everbody's updates, but pretty much nothing to report from here, winter, work, and general life stuff mean I haven't ridden much.

Anne

Oh Tanga. You are in an utterly awful situation, and though words are just words and no more, I want to tell you that you have my huge sympathies, and I hope you look out for yourself through all of it, and, as we say in new zealand: kia kaha ('stay strong').

Anne

Heck Tanga, what an epic!! Good luck with your rides, and your truck! I will be checking in to see your next update

Meanwhile, as always, very much enjoying everyone's progress.

Anne

It is interesting to read everyone's updates, the ups and the downs. I appreciate the effort you all put in to post here! I'm away from my horses at the moment, and I check in here daily to get a horsey fix. Chisamba, I bet those 2 x 10 mins a day with Kimba are super for both you and her! I can fee...

Anne

My gelding was very fearful to load, I think from a previous bad experience (before I got him). Sorry to say it took months and months of slow patient work to get him semi-OK with loading up. One thing that helped teach him to stay in the trailer was to work on 'parking' outside the trailer. As in, ...

Anne

I thought of this thread when I stumbled across this link: https://www.visiticeland.com/outhorse-your-email "Disconnect from work and let the horses of Iceland reply to your emails while you are on vacation. (Seriously)" Oh! Susan is on to it, same link in your last post above!!!

Anne

PR, those are lovely pics, and I hope you had a successful hunt. It's a great thing, to provide food for the family, and all power to you.

Here's my local beach last night, on my evening dog-walk:

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Anne

Great to read all the happenings here. We went to a working equitation practice session yesterday evening! It turns out there is quite an active group about 45 mins trailer ride from our place, and what a welcoming bunch they are. Bonus that one lady is our near-ish neighbour, and another has her ho...

Anne

I thought it might be fun to share some photos of stuff we see around home, walking, riding, wherever, and/or any other random photos. I'll kick off with a few pictures of our ride yesterday, our 'beach boys' turned into 'bush boys', as we went for a 2 hour ride up a 4wd track in a local native fore...

Anne

Well, merry christmas all DDBB bods! Sorry to hear of the winter struggles, especially with the big US storm this weekend, keep safe you guys... I'm happy to have gone out for my christmas ride this morning, on a gorgeous mild summer day, and managed to get the 2 horses (didn't take Connor, maybe th...

Anne

OMG how did I miss this for a few days??! Agree with everyone else, I love this board, visit daily, try to post semi-regularly, and very much feel part of a community here. Would be happy to pay for the privilege.

Anne

Enjoying everyone's updates as always. Love the 'spooky spot' photo, and Flight's canter pic - wowza. 'Only' advanced and PSG, hah hah. I love the fact your horses are 'open', Ding is looking keen and can see where he is going!

Anne

oh exvet, that is an awesome comeback to a stressful week. I wish you and your SO the best in dealing with all the stuff.
Glad that SF and M are getting over illness, and back to (horsey) work

ongoing healing jingles for Chisamba.
As always, appreciating everyone's updates.

Anne

It's coming into summer down-under, but I'm away for most of this period, so Connor is getting some (more) time off..... however, I do have one goal, which is to do our 'traditional' ride on Christmas day. Somewhere, anywhere, just get on a horse on Christmas day! This was us a few weeks ago, so des...

Anne

Demi, it is great to hear an update from you, and wow, exciting work with Besa!! And super to read of everyone's updates and progress (along with the struggles), I read the training threads daily and it keeps me motivated, even when I am not riding much (and currently at work, so no horse time at al...

Anne

LSP - I haven't watched the video, but thanks for the list of 24!! It's interesting. I've always worried a bit about my difficult youngster (tendency to buck when first girthed up, and occasionally disunites at canter), but actually, he only meets number 18, and 24. I'll try to watch the video at so...

Anne

Sounds like an exciting and positive move, good luck! And keep us posted on your adventures.

Anne

It's the very southern province in New Zealand, nearest 'city' (population ~55,000) is Invercargill.

Anne

Joyful update! Such a relief when the training pays off : Last week we moved 1000km south to our new property..... Fergal went straight onto our trailer (with his buddy), and coped perfectly with the first leg of the journey, 6 hrs. The 4 boys had a 3 night layover at a yard, then a commercial trans...

Anne

So beautiful! They have grown heaps haven't they!

Anne

Demi, I am so so sorry, virtual hugs to you, you seem to be a brave, strong lady, and how wonderful that your husband supported you in your endeavours, and you can ride Besa in his honour. Kia kaha.

Anne

So very sorry to hear this exvet, my thoughts are with you.

Anne

Oh no Demi, so sorry to hear that, and adding my jingles. I'm following along here but not riding at the moment. We're preparing for a move from the north end of the South Island to the south... about 1000km. It's a bit of a mission, but we're looking forward to an awesome location with easy access ...

Anne

Oh Susan how worrying... crossing fingers the issue resolves itself with no further vet intervention... at least Kyra must be feeling OK to have given you a nice forward ride. Ach, horses, there is always something eh. Much enjoying reading everyone else's updates and progress (so much progress, wow...

Anne

Sue, that is a special thing to do for a stranger. Being able to make music is such an amazing thing.

Anne

Oh! Those ears.... That tail! Exceedingly cute, I bet you can't wait to get the kittehs home.

Anne

Completely and utterly cute

Enjoy your new family members, and here is hoping Auntie Puff is accepting of them too.

Anne

No advice from me, but wow, what a gorgeous boy! Did I miss his name?

Anne

Oh, he's gorgeous, what a lovely boy!

Anne

Guys! Just to say I am following along with everyone's posts, and it is great to hear of the successes, the difficulties, the challenges, the plans.... so excited for all of you. I've had some difficult time mentally (loss of confidence, stress), so have been keeping rides low-key, and I'm heading b...

Anne

Oh that is so awfully sad Mountaineer, my commiserations, and my anger towards your unfeeling neighbours.

Anne

Ooof, that is quite a delay Blob, how frustrating... but exciting too, congrats! Susan, yeah, Fergal's a claustrophobic sort too, and I can hardly blame him, especially as we think he had a couple of bad experiences with people forcing him on to a trailer before he arrived here. Today was another sm...

Anne

Quiet persistence pays off : we did our first short float (trailer) trip with Fergal today.... I've been loading him most days, and he's been improving, and getting more confident with just standing until I ask him to back off. Today, we loaded up his buddy, then I asked in my normal way for Fergal ...

Anne

Oh yeah, ha hah, I should probably have mentioned it came out in 2017! I only just found it through some random internet comments though, so I was excited to share

Anne

We just finished watching 'Godless' (netflix) - a western. I loved it! Only 7 episodes, interesting characters, plenty of action (yeah, some violence, but I coped with it, so not excessively gory), pretty horses (though, of course, the sound effects team cannot help but add random whinnying, so anno...

Anne

Flight, your canter->halt at ~1:05 was spectacular! Lightness and balance (as evidenced by the square halt), just beautiful.

Chisamba, as always I appreciate your insights. Stuff to think about!

Anne

Oh no, that is very sad news, I wish her friends and family strength and peace.

Anne

Tanga, I love the 'rules'; we all need to say the last one to ourselves regularly :-) For myself at least, I can say I need to apply the rest as well. As usual, I'm enjoying reading everyone's reports, and commiserate with those having horse/human health/behaviour difficulties. Connor has been out f...

Anne

Goldhorse, fantastic result, well done just keeping on keeping on when circumstances were less than ideal. Lovely comments on your test!

Anne

This thread is old-ish, but I'm going to revive it with a positive update..... Fergal will now load up with minimum fuss (a few taps of the whip), and will stand for as long as I want. I can walk away a little bit, and he'll still stand! (without the bum bar done up). He backs out quietly on voice a...

Anne

That sounds positive Khall, Henry sounds like a total sweetie.

Anne

Commiserations to those dealing with freezy winter temperatures, and 'slightly off' horses. Our weather has been decent recently, and I've had some OK rides, focussing on transitions (leg on in the downward!), and bend in the ribcage. Also trying to do an attempt at haunches in *every* ride. It is n...

Anne

Wow, Brandon is looking much more mature and strong than the last video I watched (a few months back??). I didn't watch all your current video, but he seems less fussy and much more balanced. So good to follow your progress!

Anne

Exvet - go you and Junior! Well done. SueB, phew, that sounds pretty full-on, but yay for Rudy getting his brain back! LSP, it sounds like Lynx is progressing so well, so try to think of all the positives and achievements you guys have made in a short time! Mountaineer, commiserations on the 'scary ...

Anne

Here's one of our attempts from yesterday, not nearly as polished as Demi's transition (lovely!), but an improvement I think. I was focussing on 'leg on' in the trans, and apparently can't think of more than one thing at once because I totally forgot to 'start walking'... Connor's still a bit unstea...

Anne

Super useful discussion everyone, thanks! Chisamba, yes!! More leg in the down transitions. And thanks for posting video of you and Saiph, that's helpful. I really like your description here: "The horse must truly step under themselves to carry their balance behind so that they do not need to l...

Anne

Fixed! (Demi's video link). Here's a trot-walk transition, from a few months back, to compare and contrast with Demi's. I quite like the trot coming in, but he hollows/braces in the transition. I feel the rein length in trot is OK, but I think I have a general tendency to ride with slightly long rei...

Anne

Demi - I went to re-watch your videos and they say 'private', did you no longer want to have them viewed? I was going to show a trot-walk transition to compare and contrast with yours, but it's not so useful without your videos! Tanga, you should get the prize for innovative filming!! Working two ho...

Anne

Well, in contrast to all you suffering in the cold, we have had the hottest days of summer so far (~28 celcius, ~= 83 F)... it is kind of de-motivating as well, especially as we are not used to the heat after a cold, wet, windy spring! Goals for Connor: - calm canter transitions. He's got a lovely c...

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