Dressage Quebec

Ami was awesome today. I wore spurs.  He was very forward.  Go figure. :-)

I've been trying to ride both Kaswyn and Albert four times a week. I thought this tooth issue was going to slow everything down, but riding Kaswyn in a halter has gone very well. Amazingly I'm getting much less resistance from him when I use the halter. It makes me suspicious that this tooth thing has been causing problems for a while. Maybe I'm just imagining it, but Kaswyn seems much more willing to go to the "bit" when in a halter. Most everything I ask him to do has not been a problem at all.

OK, I must be honest. My clipping yesterday didn't go quite like Gorilla Wrestling...........well, not all the time anyway. There were brief moments when my joints creaked or my head got thumped when I had flashbacks of wrestling matches in the past and the notion of "gorilla wrestling" came to me. I couldn't help but write a post. The very thought just got me giggling.The real story is the clipping went pretty darn well. It took me all day to get 19 horses clipped but it really had more to do with

This week teaching the Cert. II class has been focused on the rules of jumping and different types of jumps and it got me thinking about the knowledge behind those that design such courses for competitive events. If you have a love of jumping and an interest in how courses are built, put together and the specifications, then perhaps course design is for you. Before designing a course, it would be expected that one is familiar with riding courses themselves, after all, how difficult would it be to

Je commande d'ici quelques jours un lot de guêtres de dressage. Je les utilise depuis plusieurs mois et elles sont très pratique tant pour la mise en liberté, l'entraînement, les cliniques et les réchauffements en concours. Elles sont disponibles en noir, brun, rouge ou blanc, grandeurs petit, médium, large ou x-large. Je les vends seulement 45$ la paire. N'hésitez pas à me contacter pour réserver votre paire! dressagequebec@hotmail.comhttp://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

Oprah: Sarah Palin Can Come on My Show After the Election I love the Huffington Post. Honestly. I do. If Oprah's scared of her (probably more scared about what she'll do to her candidate as Sarah's got a higher approval rating than Obama and McCain right now as I wright [update: was that a Freudian slip?]), then in my book that's an excellent recommendation for the next Vice President of the United States.

The closest I've come to seeing a critter this size out in the wild is the herd of elk who live up above our little ranch on the Mesa. (Of course, I see a domesticated critter this size every morning when I go down to the barn to feed my Percheron horse Toby.) One Christmas, when we were up on the mesa getting our Christmas tree, a few elk soared over the barbed wire fence right in front of our eyes and bounded off into the wilderness. It made our spirits all soar, complete with four impossibly

Are we looking at the beginning of a new Western Conservatism? So here's why she matters. First of all she offers an opportunity for an ailing Republican party to reconnect with ordinary Americans. She's conservative, but her conservatism is not that of the intolerant, uncomprehending white male sort that has so hurt the party in recent years. She is much closer to a model of the lives of ordinary Americans - working mother, plainspoken everywoman juggling home and office - than any Republican

I had a reader question recently about Shoeing. And I thought it was a quite interesting topic.Hi Deanna, Thank you for a wonderful site. I read your posts and learn a lot from it. My mare and me thank you for this I have a question or an interesting topic to discuss. I ride a 4 y.o. qh who has shoes for a year. I ride about 3-4 times a week for one hour in a manege and about 1-2 times a week as trail riding on various grounds, but most of the time hard ground with stones. I've read about

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. (Take that, Fairness Doctrine liberals!) Jack Bauer and I rented mountain bikes and cruised all over DC. What a joy to have been cruising around the Santa Fe Plaza on my bicycle one day, and the next to be pedaling around the Washington Mall. (Although I will take New Mexico weather any day.) I love Thomas Jefferson. He is my favorite founding father. The Jefferson Memorial is without a

Back to work tonight and tomorrow for me. Oh well, I enjoyed my 2 weeks off, really just one weekend. This is a pic of a nice sunny Autumn day last year. Hope we get some sunny days soon. We needed the rain but I like a crisp sunny fall day!Mina and the burr. Last night the dipstick tried to eat a burr and managed to get it stuck in her throat. It was a bit scary for all of us as she panicked and struggled and just looked at me like "can't you help?". I managed to dislodge the burr and it took her

Lord I’ve really been real stressed Down and out, losin ground Although I am black and proud Problems got me pessimistic Brothers and sisters keep messin up Why does it have to be so damn tuff? I don’t know where I can go To let these ghosts out of my skull My grandmas past, my brothers gone I never at once felt so alone I know you’re supposed to be my steering wheel Not just my spare tire (home) But lord I ask you (home) To be my guiding force and truth (home) For some strange

ami still sore.  rested a 2nd day.

Ami’s stifles are sore.   We worked him pretty hard 2 days in a row (not so much because we wanted to… he was not being a good boy).   I have been turning him out in a regular pasture for a few hours each day to try and build him up on the grass… and he started running.  He was brought in but not sure how long he was running. So he’s sore.  Buted and rested.

Gorilla wrestling, also known as show clipping horses, is exactly what it sounds like. You grab the horse around the nose and hang on hoping that you'll get a swipe or two in with the clippers before the horse throws its head up into the air.......along with you. Of course this will include other defensive movements intended to escape the clipping procedure. Once holds are broken, you go back to grabbing the horse and starting all over again until the horse has been successfully clipped.Depending

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I just returned from a few days in Washington DC. Being in our nation's capitol made me think of what Ronald Reagan said about America being a "shining city on the hill". I had a strong sense of that last night, listening to Sarah Palin speak. Anne from Smells Horsey is right, all Sarah Palin lacks is a horse. I'd ride with this maverick any day. Welcome Back, Dad -- by Michael Reagan. Much has been made of the fact that she is a woman. What we saw last night, however, was something much

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