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Yes - exactly!

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I've had three gens of tense and forward, and very little crossover in what works best to disarm their often explosive tension. Some of things that have worked: – Warm up with counter canter (literally walk to the arena, immediately start cantering, and after 5-10 minutes we could warm up properly)...

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For what it's worth, I'm wondering if spending lots of time under saddle just walking her all over the place without a workout. If your facility has access to fields, cross country course even your rings - just walk and walk to try and get her brain to chill. She is physically so fit that letting h...

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She’s rising 8 and has been competing for 3 years. Always been this way, and now stronger and fitter so more capacity for it apparently! My trainer wants to “work through it” which I understand but feel isn’t working (or rather I don’t yet have an exercise that seems to relax her) and I want to paus...

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Tanga wrote: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?

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Hello friends! It's been a while... but who better to ask than you guys? My (jumper bred) mare is a rocket. Described by an Olympian as a Ferrari, she wants to do everything fast. She's sensitive, she's smart, and every round is a jump off to her! This does not translate well to eventing dressage, w...

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Chisamba wrote:Do not go for too much until your horse grasps the concept. Just lengthen the neck an inch keeping the poll slightly higher than the withers.

I have been asking for too much and throwing away the contact

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Maia and I have a distinct lack of back at the canter too! My new barn owner/trainer was admiring the canter lengthening a few rides ago, and then laughing at my wild attempts to collect before we barreled through the arena gate :lol: Yeah at my last jump lesson we almost hit the end wall because m...

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Trot poles are another thing to play with. I've actually never found them super helpful in TEACHING the lengthening to start, but they do help build the strength and can be a nice way to teach more cadence/wait/sit once a horse already has a sense of lengthening. I need to be less lazy about settin...

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I'm guessing you have half halts and the ability to collect if you are running cross country and jumping solid obstacles. You just need to distill that feeling. Well I would say it's more of an "animated discussion" about whether to slow down before an xc jump right now, but we're getting...

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@Ryeissa the half halts are pretty good I think. @heddylamar she has a huge canter stride but I the jump saddle we have recently found a new collected canter and we can power out if that to a jump! Coming back to it is a bit (a lot!) harder :shock: @khall I have done the “trot for longer/faster unti...

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Hello all! Long time no see. I have been eventing my green baby mare (just turned 6!) and she's been doing GREAT. We regularly get ribbons and moved up to Novice this year. Trainer is saying we need to do some straight dressage over the winter because that's our weak spot, and I can't deny it! Addit...

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Just reading this now - my blood would be boiling if that happened to one of my cats. I'm glad the jerks moved away

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I tried a Takt jump saddle and I liked the fit and the quality, but in the end buying a brand new, non-adjustable custom saddle for a 4 yr old wasn't going to make sense so I got a used Voltaire from http://www.redwoodtack.com . Even though I swore I wouldn't buy anything foam paneled

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Aww thanks everyone! :mrgreen: OMG you actually found a horse! I have been around since the losses of your other horses... I AM SO HAPPY FOR YOU! She is super For real - my equine journey has been awful the last 10 years. And I still expect her to be lame every time I see her. I'm worried to make co...

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Hello friends! Here's my long overdue update :) After the sad demise of the 7 yr old Baby Bronto to multiple system breakdowns in November 2019, I was crushed... for a long time. I leased a horse for 6 months and we variously hated each other. He went home. Finally I started looking for a new horse,...

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I went from a "call me when you need me" guy which meant my horse often went a week over, to a guy who shows up and shoes my horses pretty much when it suits him and I only find out when I show up at the barn... he's mostly very good, and seems to have me on the same schedule as my trainer...

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I have read that a horse can be totally stall bound and not loose fitness for up to 8 weeks! Wish I could find that article, but at any rate a couple weeks on or off shouldn't make any difference to them, fitness wise, and you'll probably have lovely fresh minds to come home to

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For so many people, doing the right thing is all a lot of talk - they watch an animal suffer and slip until the light goes out. You're so brave to give your sweet boy that most unselfish, painful gift of passing before the world was unbearable. Hats off to you and lovely Fergus, and many gentle hugs...

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(((hugs)))

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Thanks everyone. Only a couple people outside of here know and I told them I didn't want to talk about it. The condolences are only bearable here, where I can cry in peace and solitude. Even when you KNOW it's the right thing to do, it's so DAMN awful. I hurt now for Xan and her upcoming trial. Wit...

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I am really impressed Paula - don't you dare stop now: you are over the hump!

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The insurance company just sent me a request for payment for another year of coverage - haha! I may have been hemorrhaging cash to keep this horse going, but even I am not daft enough to pay insurance post mortem... I do hope they find something catastrophic in there on necropsy. When I think about ...

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OK. It's over. I took him to the teaching hospital yesterday and he stuffed his face with grass on the nice lawn they keep watered for such occasions, then they sedated him. He laid down and with three huge breaths, he was gone. They're doing a full necropsy, sending tissues to vets who study his is...

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Well, my dream purchase of a highly bred warmblood is about to be over: the Baby Bronto is to be put to sleep soon. At age 1 he had a shoulder injury. At age 2 he had multiple soft and hard tissue injuries to his LF in pasture: 6 month rehab At age 2 he was also diagnosed with PSSM and shivers At ag...

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I heard it once described that being good is an absolute. And that’s why there aren’t too many shades of wording to express it. You’re either good or you’re not. Conversely there are a great many ways to express the levels of evilness people descend to.

I do like discreet though!

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DJR your year has been what I call a “shitstival” - festival of crap. I’m so sorry. I hope Jet heals quickly and profoundly and remembers every nuance of his training afterwards.

Hugs!

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Anyone else?

It sends me to raidforums .com when I try to visit COTH. Definitely NSFW!

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Yes! And she's a little pocket rocket, plus the owners are excited to get some training on her. Win win!

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yeah no sorry - that is not the weather I can handle :lol: Nor can I handle Lyme! "Yes, you and your horses will all get Lyme, but your horse life will be a zillion times more satisfying." Satisfying tho... my horse life is not satisfying :( I DID manage to make a commitment to ride the ve...

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It is indeed ridiculous! You’d be drowning in showsheen!

I’m sure the money goes elsewhere...

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Let's remember that I've dealt with two subsequent, different injuries here. The coffin bone fracture started it all, and is fully healed. We had a month back under saddle W/T/C before, with extenuating circumstances, the relatively minor soft tissue injury happened. We're leading parallel lives. M...

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Bip, you go! I'm only extremely jealous! :lol: Where do you live anyway? I tried out the lease horse and she's a greenish mare who seems to be a lot of fun. Going to ride her again this afternoon, so then I'll be discussing how much I have to pay the owners to train their green horse (I know - begga...

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piedmont I should expand territory - you're right. I did find a good lead on an Irish sporthorse to part lease about 15 mins away today. Going to try her soon! And I had my "assessment" lesson today. For a very fancy barn, this guy was a real beginner safe gelding... kick ride, stiff as a ...

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Xan- that mare had issues. Serious issues. She hated her job, which was the most revealing thing of all. I'm very glad she went foot perfect for that ammy but there are better horses out there for you. I know there are. I also know you are in the deepest of dark places with your current horse situa...

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My heart horse just rehabbed one tendon injury from last summer only to injure her check ligament this year, in the same leg. Ironically and cruelly, it happened right before breaking ground on my very own dressage arena. Prognosis is not great for returning to third level work. Oh lawdy - that's a...

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I’d be OK with cleaning tack if it was a less expensive lesson, and at a barn that charges less than about $1500+ per month for board with compulsory training on top… At that price I kind of expect to have the horses groomed and tacked for me... When you see either of these barns at a show each ride...

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Due to ongoing broken horse issues, I've decided to take some jump lessons on school horses. I approached a local Grand Prix jump rider and asked him for a lesson. Yep, no problem. Showed up, a very shy working student tacked up for me, and then we went to the arena where GP rider was on his stallio...

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oh my god Wiccky - what the actual?! I'm so sorry

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Argh, so frustrating! I often wonder how different it would have been if I'd bought that lovely 3 year old with the x-ray finding that my vet and the examining vet said wouldn't present any future problems. Horses are such a total crapshoot, I feel like buying one at random is just as effective as ...

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I know... and am usually able to say "oh well, on to the next" but the feeling of regret this morning has been STRONG.

I should have found a way to make it happen. Just UGH!

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As some of you know my voice journey has been bumpy. Rocky. Turbulent. Over the years, I have had horses suddenly die, get weirdly expensively sick, and been sold horses under false pretenses. My current horse at seven is once again on a nine+ month layup. Woe is me. Last year I saved up money to bu...

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Thanks guys... I'm still in shock in a way. Why is everything going so wrong, horse wise? What am I going to do for the next 9+ months? I can't afford to buy a new horse... I don't know any trainers with schoolmasters I can ride.... I don't see any offsite lease horses around here (I still need to d...

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I have seen less gore at the butcher's on delivery day... DJR you win this and ALL FUTURE CONVERSATIONS about horse wounds...

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Right. I'm down on my luck now. Bronto came sound after the injection and I was entered in a show last Sunday at first level, for the first time (for him) and I was feeling READY and good about it! But somehow he lost his right lead canter. Such things happen with youngsters, but in the back of my m...

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OMG what horrible, horrible luck DJR! I'm so sorry - I know that shoulder will heal, as will the flank injury on the filly (the dearly departed Decrepit OTTB had a similar shoulder injury and it was fine). But the colic loss, and the stress, and the expense.... you poor thing. If these things run in...

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Truth... I really hoped by buying a baby and treating it with kid gloves I'd be better off. But no! Oh universe, you wag, you...

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Thanks Q! I might print that out for those times when I need a boost! :mrgreen: A wrinkle occurred this week: slight lameness of indeterminate appendage. Vet lady was out, said 3 out of 4 legs (but NOT the one that was off for 8 months of the last 12!) seemed sore, and probably as a result of compen...

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My guy get half his (alfalfa based) feed before a ride, half after. The first half lines his stomach and the second half gives him something to look forward to! I vote for go right ahead and take her away from her feed while you groom and tack up. There will be something in her stomach to soothe it,...

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Look at that face!!! Congratulations

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