Horse Gossip Thread

[welsummerchicks]

Well the trainer better make the horse look better than you do or else why pay her to ride the horse!

As for your costume for your pinto, didn't you get any good suggestions on the other thread you started for that? I thought some of them sounded really good!

I think the best and easiest is a native american costume.

 

[michickenwrangler]

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Please slow down and read my posts!

So what do you call it then if it's not on the bit or frame or headset? Just to refresh my memory and in my own defense, I just skimmed through a dressage article from 2004 Arabian Horse (official registry publication not Arabian Horse Times or World) and while it does not mention headset, they do talk about "frame" as in artificial frame and classical frame.

Now from the trainers I've worked with and articles I've read, I've been told to resist putting my horse into the frame I used to ride in Arab hunter pleasure and horses' frames as they develop are capable of greater collection and can later achieve a more classical frame.

And the rider I was talking about can already extend and collect her horse's stride, both can turn on the haunches, they do flying changes, he halts squarely, she's been working quite well on 20m circles and he's developing the bend he needs. I see no reason why she wouldn't be capable of doing First Level after her first year.

At the very least, you can't argue with "consistent."

 

[BobwhiteQuailLover]

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I LOVED them!!! I own him.

 

[Celtic Hill]

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The general rule of thumb is you show the level below what your schooling.

I use Frame and Self Carriage to pretty much mean the same thing, a horse in a frame/self carriage should be working from it's hind end tracking up into the bridle with a nice non forced outline. This can't be achieved with draw reins, martingales, ect. Headset is refred to just the head, a horse could have it's "Neck Arched in a nice head set" but have a hollow back and on the forehand. but all that is JMO

 

[michickenwrangler]

I thought it was compete in the level below the one you are schooling--schooling 3rd, competing in 2nd for example

 

[Celtic Hill]

That's what i said

 

[michickenwrangler]

I could have sworn I saw "same"

I berate WC, but I do the same thing

 

[Celtic Hill]

Oh haha, nope. And sorry if my last post sounded rude i didnt want it to come off like that.

I berate WC, but I do the same thing

Wait what?​

 

[michickenwrangler]

She didn't read a post of mine very clearly a few pages back so I quoted it and bolded the part she misread.

And now I read your post wrong.

I know I just turned 30, but I didn't think I'd go senile a few months into it!

 

[EweSheep]

Well if it makes you feel better, I'm 45 and forgetting every day!