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  1. Went with my boss to a dressage competition at Patchetts. She entered...... ooooh lets see if I can remember this..... p13 and p17 (I think), and did quite well with a 6th in the first and 5th in the second class. Roxy was so chilled out! Absolutely gorgeous 5 year old mare, trotting around the warm up menage on a long loose rein, Gina practically holding it by the buckle, and Roxy just stretching her neck down and forward, so great to see.

     

    She had one test in each indoor school, and Roxy did not like so much the second one, the walls were making creaky noises due to some heating system, so had a couple of tiny spooks, but came back wonderfully.

     

    After bragging about boss and feeling so happy about her whole way of handling/caring for her horses :wub: , I have to say you do get to see some pretty awful riding when you go to places like that :mellow: won't go into detail, but it just made us both sad to see. Not so much other people there for the event, but mainly liveries.....

     

     

    I know how you feel. This is another reason I am glad I am away from the horsey circuit these days.. I was only discussing this with a friend of mine yesterday about seeing sooooooooo many horses being ridden around with their noses down on their chests and the gear they are wearing. They have GOT to be ridden "on the bit" in the "perfect outline". Excuse me why don't you learn to ride from your seat, hands and legs and your mount will autimatically go in a perfect outline, or hopefully will :) ggggggggrrrrrrrrrrr.

     

    I had the most wonderful AI working for me when I had the riding school, she was trained by Pammy and Brian Hutton. When I first saw her lunging her dressage horse and warming him up my heart used to be in my throat. She used to let him go round with his nose on the ground and I could visualise him tripping and she used to laugh at me. Her lessons used to be full of riding without stirrups and reins which the kids used to laugh and laugh, but my god they learnt Balance. Also she never blamed the horse or pony and had a great knack of getting the best out of her riders, whether they were useless or not.

     

    You stick with your boss she sounds great to me.

     

    Great to read that someone actually does let their horse stretch

  2. This is some pics I took of my springer Jack whois starting to creep into his 13th year. Playing about with my camera, trying out settings I never use, I used the wrong setting but came up with these amazing piccies. well I think so anyway. I hope you enjoy.

     

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