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Wow. Forum has been flooded with spam. Just commenting here so this can go back to the top.

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Have a good time. Rest up. I agree with you on 2024.

Yes, the spammers seem to be everywhere.

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This is one of the reasons I blanket mine. There is no way I could even approach getting them decently cleared of mud this time of year. Quilla especially LOVES to roll. We have these plants from hell that have needle spikes and spiky balls from hell, and I swear Quilla finds them and rolls her fore...

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Chisamba--Quilla likes to curl. That's her go to thing. I don't have any super easy answers. Just a lot of positive reinforcement and voice cues to let her know I want her neck out and down. I do a lot of what you do with warming up super long into an outside rein and almost nonexistent inside rein,...

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I went to bed at 7 on Tuesday because I had to get up at 3 am to fly to Ecuador. I am there now. I could not believe it. I think the biggest issue is people don't care enough, and not educated. Those people who didn't vote and those who voted for tRump are screwing themselves. The Muslims I guess vo...

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exvet--You are right on with what you need for the changes and it's not about crank and spank, but it is all about getting the front end up from coming under behind. Look at the video of Quinn from this last show--I was getting 7's on her one tempis because I finally was doing that.

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My goals. I have to sort this health issue out and find an answer. (Still none.) Hopefully I can get out of this new normal. This might require dumping my doc and getting another. Get back my energy and dump the pounds added because of my lack of ability to do much exercise. Doing this show, taking ...

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exvet--I'm sorry about the scores. I've seen a lot of that where judges are really liking heads cranked in. I won't do it, either. But, I have been working on keeping a higher, poll high contact no matter what, and that is working, and how I get correct. I feel like I've been beaten with a baseball ...

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Ooof. Interesting first show day. Osierlea is BEAUTIFUL. What a nice place to show. The girls were great driving and warming up yesterday. They spent all Thursday night eating and pooping. I could NOT sleep. I think I did too much physical stuff and I had massive restless leg syndrome (that's a sign...

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Thanks, exvet.

Easternlanddressage is the new person in NJ who can use some guidance from you guys who live that way. Hopefully she'll jump in.

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Yeah for Joplin! How is it always late night with these things? I'm off to a show for three days, where I am stabling the horses, which I never do at champs. I want to get a jump on scores with so man shows gone in out area next year for champs. Girls are doing great, I am doing OK, and I have Quill...

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I hope Joplin is all good. Let us know. We had a turn from hot to quite cold weather here, so we see colicy horses.

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Chancellor wrote:
Tanga wrote:Thank you!

Also very sorry I missed your PM. There has been a lot of turmoil in my life in the recent past. So I am not checking in here that often.

No worries. I am sorry for whatever is going on.

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Thank you. I'll let her know.

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Thank you!

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Sorry to put this here, but this is where everyone is. Does anyone know how to contact Chancellor? Larvaontheroad is trying to join the board (from NJ) and has been waiting a week and sent three emails and nothing. I messaged her and nothing. I don't think she gets on very often, but I think she's t...

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On the 4-3 test, I had to ride through every bad incarnation, including the 10 minute version that had every move and every one was harder than PSG. I always talked to Mike Osinski about this when I scribed for him because he is on the test writing committee. I think they finally got it right! I don...

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khall--Joplin reminds me of Quilla. She looks like she is good at getting you to lean a bit forward, and then she rounds and goes on the forehand to avoid the work and you get into that cycle. I've sure has those shows. A tip. I know she can piaffe. Think piaffe into those walk pirouettes--it really...

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Chisamba --She should be on as soon as she's approved and she can let you know, but I think she's on the ramen side. If nothing else, she could use some people she can trust locally. I am with you on seeing how to live better. I have used probiotics when I have been sick to make sure my flora is up....

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Chisamba I have someone on Reddit who's been asking me for advice, and is one of the people that inspired me to make the disappeared Facebook page. She's looking for a horse and I think she's in New Jersey from the horses she's looking at. I don't think she has much experience and really needs guida...

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It sound like everyone is making great progress. I am really impressed with the pictures and videos I see. I am a bit better. I can ride, though I am exhausted, and I still need to ride them to and from the pasture. I entered a show in two weeks with both horses for both days at two rides a day each...

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Aleuronx I love the changes--very snappy behind and through. They are very nice already. And nice start on the pirouettes. Another thing you can add to school/warm up those are shoulder in and haunches in on a smaller circle. I do shoulder in, which is a lot of work, and then haunches in, which feel...

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I think I may have discovered how I'm blocking him in the lateral work. Sometimes it's good to let the muscle memory lapse! I'll see how I feel about that after a couple more rides. I agree, Mountaineer. You have to get away sometimes. I just visited with my friend Dennis Callin who was not too far...

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Had a trainer once say the nose points towards the weaker hind leg. And then the diagnosis begins: is it mechanical, which means time off and/or intervention, or muscular, which means more gymnasticizing exercises and strengthening and all that dressage stuff. Quite a few of my horses over the year...

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Mari, wow, I'm sorry. I don't think I've heard of anything like that. One of the horses in the pasture (the woman who was the director of Hoof Dreams) got a little wound on his shoulder that made him very sore, then got cellulitis, and then ended up at Davis with a rare infection that she could have...

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Quilla wants to do this to the left. She tilts her nose in, thus outside ear down. I pick up the outside rein, bump her up off the inside shoulder, and need to straighten the neck more as the inclination is always to overbend. And I agree with exvet, it's usually the right rein horses don't want to ...

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Ya'll are working so hard. I'm mostly not doing much. I thought I was getting a little better, but now I feel like I'm backsliding. I go to the barn, but it is still far too much for me to walk back and forth between the pasture and barn. It's either slow going or hard to walk up the slight hill to ...

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Flight, thank you for the idea. That day we were working on keeping the outside rein. But your phrasing of keeping the arms back to support the torso and keep it straight really helped her. One of the hardest things has been to get her to stop putting her right arm forward. That and dropping the sti...

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Flight, yes, this is a problem she has had for a long time, so we're on six months trying to correct it. This is where her body wants to go if she's not right on it and I'm not all over her reminding her. I am trying to get her to get the feeling of putting weight on the outside seatbone but stay up...

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heddy--I know! It's astonishing. They don't do these vital tests that everyone should do every year as a baseline. My GP won't get me to a specialist because nothing "abnormal" shows up on my blood tests, so I'm trying to get the best information to supplement on my own. I am so sorry for ...

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My new primary care physician took one look at my long list of weird, seemingly unrelated, problems that have been increasing over the last 5 years, and asked if anyone's ever tested my B12 levels. I was low. So low that I'm on my third month of weekly shots. I don't know if there's a correlation, ...

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Blob, have a little snippet they may help. I was working with my leasor on Quilla trying to get her to ride bend and a circle without overbending the neck and doing the turn with the outside rein. She is getting the changes, but has had a lot of trouble. Initially, she couldn't even get Q to canter ...

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Hmm. I would say both of mine are very sensitive and can get hot. Maybe go into it thinking I'll walk for 3 or 20 steps, I'll halt, I'll back up, or I'll just change, focusing on the correct aides. One of the things I've also added that helps a lot is verbal signals. "Aaaaaand" is w're goi...

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I have not really been riding, but my leasor is trying to work on flying changes, and I let her ride both girls. They are both very willing to do them for her IF she asks correctly. Changes are something you want to do right the first time because it's a real bugger to try to fix them. I would start...

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Aleuronx--I agree. Get a tailcoat.

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exvet--You are spot on with the lateral work. I pretty much lost my left half pass because I was tight/blocking with my inside hip and hand. Chelsey really helped me with this--she said it looked like the horses were stuck and dropped to the inside. I think of sort of scooching from the outside hip ...

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mari--I'm with you, but on the being able to get back on a horse and do more than sit there track. Last week I tried to do a couple of trot and canter circles and my arms and abdomen were aching for days. Sigh. I'm lucky I can not ride and I have people who are mostly getting them out. I go there, b...

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Just, hugs, khall. I won't be allowed to even do that, if I even learn if my mom is gone. Hugs.

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Good idea, chisamba. I have done that, too. Let them go as fast as they want on a small circle, and keep them there with the outside rein. It's lot of work for them, so you sitting very relaxed and letting them go as fast as they want only involves them.

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Hugs, khall.

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Thank you. I am super lucky in that I have the ability to be able to do nothing. I just wanted to share so if you feel it, test it. Everyone should get yearly blood tests just as a baseline. Make sure your ferritin is tested as well as D, and I'm still trying to figure out the B's. If we all had thi...

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Mari--you get extra points from me for the spots. I'm with you on the halt. Argh. I train and train and train, and everything is great at home, and I can't tell you how many times we piaffe in the first halt. The last one is usually good, but Quilla likes to turn her head back and look at you if she...

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I'm getting around to finishing watching some of the freestyles. I was not a fan of Indian Rock nor the ride he was given. But I just loves Becky Moody's ride and Jagerbomb. I also wasn't thrilled with how tight in the neck Fame was but I wonder if that's more conformation than anything else. I enj...

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Xanthoria Your mare sound like mine were. They were always chill on the ground, hacking around and so on, but once they got revved up, it just kept going up and up. And, interestingly, my mares have always been much better in season--very cool and wiggly and relaxed.

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Lipsmacker--I 100% agree with you on Becky Moody and the french riders. Those should be at the top, though it is OK to see horses you like at that top that are super energetic, because they aren't wrong. And you are right on the transitions! SUPER hard. I think a lot of people would agree with me, I...

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That's a bummer, chisamba. Too many people don't really want to do with the real issues. It's easier to make simplistic declarations. Interestingly, Global Dressage Analytics is working on a program to digitize tests to do just this thing. It would be a great teaching tool. Can I ask, how do you mak...

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Tanga, he definitely is tight in the scapula area. Are you talking about the release where you kind of press your hand into the crease by their shoulder? Yes. Mine LOVE it. I hold their head for my balance and they bring it towards me and I can get my whole hand in there. The more I do it, the more...

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SI finally just let her go, and never tried to hold her back. It was brutal for awhile. And when she slowed down on her own, I would ask her for a little more forward and then ask her to slow down, and she would do it. Let her go - galloping? or trotting around as fast as she liked? Yes. It was not...

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I have no good feedback on this, but maybe a suggestion. It's my suggestion for everything--massage, body work. The scapula release is my answer for a lot of things. Tossing, tight heads and back seems to come from the bracheopcephalus and muscles in the thorasic sling. I play with it a little diffe...

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