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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Things that horse people wont admit, don't fees up to, and are extremely annoying
There are a few things that horse people are known for, lying to make themselves seem like they know everything about horses and all the horse sports. I personally will admit that I do not know everything, If I do not know about something I will go look up on it. What annoys me the most is when people are BENT on being right ALL THE TIME. If I went and looked up something from many different sources and they all say the same thing, then I am pretty sure that the research that I did is more believable than what you heard from a friend of a friend of a friend.
Second, that everybody wants to bred their horses. Personally I would LOVE to breed Super Kid, but I know that I probably wont because there are THOUSANDS of unwanted young horses that need homes and training. Also if the horse you want to bred isn't even trained, has a attitude problem and has nothing showing that the foal would be a nice foal, I don't think that you should bred. If you have foals from 2007 that haven't been sold, don't bred. I personally think that if you want have a good sport horse or pony you should see if your horse is good at the sport, then bred it to another horse that is good at the sport.
You wouldn't bred a horse that has clubbed feet, sickled hocked, toes out and has all conformational flaws, but because its cute you want to breed it? That offspring will have a signifintly less quality of life because its joints are always swollen and sore, etc. Yes, it can be managed with joint injections and supplements yes but in the long run it will have a hard life.
I have known enough horse people that I can say a lot of them lie. I have noticed that in the eventing community that this doesn't happen as much, but in the dressage I have seen the most of these people. I have met a few dressage people that I love and they are awesome people, they don't want to win all the time, they just want to have fun with their ponies and they always come first.
I don't know, just a long rant about things that I have observed. I would LOVE to hear everybody's thoughts and personal idea's etc with these subjects.
Here's Irmi's pretty face to lift up this post
Second, that everybody wants to bred their horses. Personally I would LOVE to breed Super Kid, but I know that I probably wont because there are THOUSANDS of unwanted young horses that need homes and training. Also if the horse you want to bred isn't even trained, has a attitude problem and has nothing showing that the foal would be a nice foal, I don't think that you should bred. If you have foals from 2007 that haven't been sold, don't bred. I personally think that if you want have a good sport horse or pony you should see if your horse is good at the sport, then bred it to another horse that is good at the sport.
You wouldn't bred a horse that has clubbed feet, sickled hocked, toes out and has all conformational flaws, but because its cute you want to breed it? That offspring will have a signifintly less quality of life because its joints are always swollen and sore, etc. Yes, it can be managed with joint injections and supplements yes but in the long run it will have a hard life.
I have known enough horse people that I can say a lot of them lie. I have noticed that in the eventing community that this doesn't happen as much, but in the dressage I have seen the most of these people. I have met a few dressage people that I love and they are awesome people, they don't want to win all the time, they just want to have fun with their ponies and they always come first.
I don't know, just a long rant about things that I have observed. I would LOVE to hear everybody's thoughts and personal idea's etc with these subjects.
Here's Irmi's pretty face to lift up this post
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Heartland recap
Well Heartland started for me Friday night FREEEZING. Ok so my horses didn't get a bath like they needed. We arrived and it was almost dark, so I quick saddle Super Kid up and walked her around. She was good, stretching down and collected. Fed Arrow and Super Kid and finally got to the place where we were staying, around 10:30. Cue scrambling around to get to sleep for the 6am wake up for my moms first dressage test.
Next morning came with frost on the windshield(insert crying about how cold it was) Arrows first dressage test went vary well, with a flying lead change in a counter canter serpentine. Nice for a full level higher test. Both test that they rode where really really good, but the judge didn't think so ( she must have not liked TB's)
My dressage test was at 12:30, so we had a lot of time sitting around. 11:30 rolled around, I tacked Super Kid up and headed to our warm-up. We had an awesome warm up, stretchy walk and trot, then collected walk,trot and canter, with leg-yields and half turn on the forehand. Walked to our arena. Go in and Super Kid decides to turn off her brain and not listen and pull on me, I get so distracted by this I make a half a circle disappear from our one and a half circle. Bell rings she asks me if I new where I messed up, I of course say yes and go back finish that move and finish the test. We still got a 37.13 which is really good.
We had until 3:30 to 4 to do our stadium round, another long time slot. I walked it with some of our good friends their trainer who I used to take lessons from, he helped me out by telling me what I could to to make a long distance ok for short pony legs and other things. He also helped me out when I was warming up Super Kid, saying that I have a habit of riding with the Emergency brake on. I ride with my reins a little short but don't completely give her her head over a jump. So in the video you can hear him saying let go, and I didn't get it until halfway through the course.
Next morning came with frost on the windshield(insert crying about how cold it was) Arrows first dressage test went vary well, with a flying lead change in a counter canter serpentine. Nice for a full level higher test. Both test that they rode where really really good, but the judge didn't think so ( she must have not liked TB's)
My dressage test was at 12:30, so we had a lot of time sitting around. 11:30 rolled around, I tacked Super Kid up and headed to our warm-up. We had an awesome warm up, stretchy walk and trot, then collected walk,trot and canter, with leg-yields and half turn on the forehand. Walked to our arena. Go in and Super Kid decides to turn off her brain and not listen and pull on me, I get so distracted by this I make a half a circle disappear from our one and a half circle. Bell rings she asks me if I new where I messed up, I of course say yes and go back finish that move and finish the test. We still got a 37.13 which is really good.
We had until 3:30 to 4 to do our stadium round, another long time slot. I walked it with some of our good friends their trainer who I used to take lessons from, he helped me out by telling me what I could to to make a long distance ok for short pony legs and other things. He also helped me out when I was warming up Super Kid, saying that I have a habit of riding with the Emergency brake on. I ride with my reins a little short but don't completely give her her head over a jump. So in the video you can hear him saying let go, and I didn't get it until halfway through the course.
Over all it was a really good starter show for the season, we ended up 7th out of 8 because of my stupid dressage mistake and our mini refusal. Once I can get the video of our stadium up I'll put a link up to it.
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Lessons Kicked our booty
On a vary good end to a weekend we had a lesson today with Rachel, who has know Unicorn pony a vary long time. She trained her basically, anyway. She came to my house and gave us a lesson. WE NEEDED IT. I need to remember to keep my shoulders back and leg on, other wise Super Kid gets REALLY looky and will refuse, which is what we are trying to get over. WELL pony is athletic enough to take a fence from a almost complete stop launch in the air and over. Yea not fun, you end up with a swollen, continually getting purpler thumb knuckle. ( Using the ponnies ice horse ice wraps on it works vary well) Anyway it was a vary good and productive lesson.
On another note I went to the Hoosier Horse Fair, yesterday with my mom, I got to see Rhymes half brother Connor but I missed him rider every time we walked by ): We also went and saw Mac'eo or some spelling like that. They are a horse acrobatic act from a family of gypsy's AWESOME and their ponies are PRETTYYY!! I have pictures but am to lazy to go get my camera, put them on the computer, and put them here, I'll do it sometime, just not now. Anyway I need to see if my Latin extra credit is actually 500 words (second different language first was french which I almost failed) I am good at many things, languages is not a strong point. I can retrain a old stiff Morgan mare that didn't know crap about dressage into a awesome dressage horse and get sold to a hunter\jumper barn, I transformed my own horse from a vary round fat mare to a eventing machine, school is not my forte
On another note I went to the Hoosier Horse Fair, yesterday with my mom, I got to see Rhymes half brother Connor but I missed him rider every time we walked by ): We also went and saw Mac'eo or some spelling like that. They are a horse acrobatic act from a family of gypsy's AWESOME and their ponies are PRETTYYY!! I have pictures but am to lazy to go get my camera, put them on the computer, and put them here, I'll do it sometime, just not now. Anyway I need to see if my Latin extra credit is actually 500 words (second different language first was french which I almost failed) I am good at many things, languages is not a strong point. I can retrain a old stiff Morgan mare that didn't know crap about dressage into a awesome dressage horse and get sold to a hunter\jumper barn, I transformed my own horse from a vary round fat mare to a eventing machine, school is not my forte
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Super Kid part 1
Super Kid has all the right breeding to be a great horse, but in a small horse package. At 15h she looks like a Connemara pony but she isn't at all related to that breed. Kid's dam is Knightwynd's Super Model a section D welsh cob mare. Her sire is Rollo a Holsteiner
stallion.
Rollo is by the Holsteiner stallion Ratibor and out of the mare Almadina which is a Lipizzaner.
Jumping is in his bloodlines, also TB. You can look at her whole pedigree here.
Jumping is in his bloodlines, also TB. You can look at her whole pedigree here.
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