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Anne

Thanks for all the opinions! I was leaning towards brown after reading this website: http://colorgenetics.info/equine/pictorial-guide-horse-colors-part-1-chestnut-bay-brown-and-black Their description of brown fits in terms of his legs being black above the knee/hock, his light brown/fawn muzzle and...

Anne

As I go to fill in a dressage registration form for one of our horses, I realise that though I've always thought of him as bay, he's probably brown....

What say the DDBB?

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Anne

I came across this article on the history/development of the Freestyle. Lots of thoughtful and interesting comments, photos, and links to videos, from old (Klimke and Biotop 1995) to new (Dujardin and Valegro 2012) and many in-between. I thought some of you fellow DDBBers might enjoy the read: http:...

Anne

We are (slowly) setting up at our property. Our concept is to have a central 'hub', close to our house and tack room area (no barn, and no under cover area for the horses, just not in the budget at least for now). This is what we call our 'night paddock' which is a hard-stand area about 40m x 40m, w...

Anne

Wow, great going, very good to hear you are doing and feeling well!

Anne

Wheeeee! Sounds fabulous, well done. I completely understand, having had a similar ride earlier this week on my partner's horse : out on our driveway, footing not super good so I didn't ask for too much, but got such a powerful, uphill, light canter, I was beaming!

Anne

So sorry to hear that Chancellor, thoughts to you and your family : kia kaha ('stay strong').

Anne

We're currently having a pre-dinner Cohen memorial hour, playing his old albums. RIP LC.

Anne

I'm looking forward to updates on his progress. Does the handsome boy have a name yet? I think he could be 'Kahu' (Maori for hawk), or 'Valiant' (he just looks valiant). Good luck with him!

Anne

So sorry for your loss Khall, Anna sounded like a special mare.

Anne

Really enjoying everyone's photos (Suzon, is that Charles Harris' Workbooks from the Spanish School? Love that book).

Here are Zak (the GSP) and Tess (black-and-tan farm-dog):

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And another of Zak, on his 11th birthday :

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Anne

What a lovely pair you make, congratulations on the starting/restarting process. Yes, I keep a training journal of sorts : both a simple calendar where I note how long we rode, and what we did ('lunge + ride, 40 mins", "hack out, 1 hr"), but I also have a book where I write a bit more...

Anne

I too think that Deneb has a lovely posture (and given your past descriptions of her behaviour, it seems a huge success that she is out and about). I like the hind leg activity of the big chestnut in the first photo of her, but overall prefer the second photo - looks more connected and round. Beauti...

Anne

Gosh, scary story Silk, you have just made me feel 100% better about the hassles we are having installing a fire sprinkler system in our new (being constructed) house! It is going to be worth the cost and effort, because sure as shit the fire service won't get up here in time if there was ever a fire.

Anne

Hoping for the best for you bits, he is a handsome young horse! I had never heard of HERDA, so I've learned something here. Good luck

Anne

Ditto what M&M said. I will resolve to try to post more. And I really appreciate your efforts, Chancellor, of setting it up and keeping it going... a year already?!

Anne

Huge improvement over a week ago - great! I'm sure some work is helping it heal - the movement must be good for circulation etc yes?

Anne

Congrats Baroque, energy is good! Can you remind me, is Zeus still entire - are you planning to stand him at stud? And what is his breeding, just curious, in my distant memory I seem to remember he might be by Jaleador? We have a lovely gelding by Cancionero, and very much like the breed.

Anne

Just want to send healing jingles to Rico and cyber hugs to you, don't beat yourself up, accidents do just happen (much as we wish they wouldn't). It does look like it is starting to heal nicely, but what a bummer. Really good idea to keep progress photos.

Anne

Congrats on the new job Silk, though I don't envy you living/working in Auckland.... great that you can keep the horses with your mum while you get everything sorted. Wow Chisamba, that is a heck of a stint working, I hope you will feel refreshed after a long sleep tonight. It is a good day here bec...

Anne

Fight, yes, if you take walk steps to be counted by front legs only..... I'm still getting my head around that. My logical brain still says that 4 walk steps make up one walk stride!

Anne

It is definitely meant to be steps not strides, '3 to 5 walk steps'. I read the test-book glossary of step vs stride and couldn't work out what 'step' meant in terms of walk, but it seems like maybe it is as Chisamba describes. I felt when I rode it that it was 4 steps (albeit somewhat rushed as you...

Anne

This (below) is a short video clip from a test we did last weekend. I'm curious how many walk steps you guys think I did. The movement reads 'at E turn left, transition to walk for 3 to 5 steps over X, track right at B in working trot'. Marks were 5.5 from one judge 'could show more walk strides' an...

Anne

Woo-hoo SF!! You both look very chilled, well done.

Anne

I posted a link to the Peter Amris youtube series a little while back, I really like him too! Also learning heaps from watching Conrad Schumacher vids eg : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YxZ9lVCnqM but there are quite a few others. Best phrase for allowing the horse to stretch : "let him seek...

Anne

Nice summary Flight, and congratulations on your learnings, I'm sure your experiences will be hugely beneficial for your future riding.

Anne

So, our 27Ha (78 acre) property has approximately 25,000 3m x 3m squares! Needless to say I've not looked at all the word combinations... However, from the spot where we load the horses onto the truck to go to shows : "plaiting. judged. shapes." Kind of appropriate!!

Anne

Dear Khall - so very sorry to hear of Mark's death. A huge loss for so many people, and I hope you are doing OK. My partner and I met Mark once (2006, at a Rhode Island clinic), and he seemed to be a lovely, calm, helpful, knowledgeable, generous person. We still have our 'Natural Dressage' caps whi...

Anne

Oh huge jingles for Mark. My partner and I audited a clinic he gave in Rhode Island many years ago and he was the nicest person.

Anne

It's a good day here, though I'm missing my partner, horses and dogs. I'm in the final stages of a project which has had me away from home for over a month. Just booked my flight out for Tuesday so here is hoping the rest of the weekend goes smoothly (work wise). I'm visiting the DDBB often, for my ...

Anne

Not sleeping well is tough, good luck managing the pain and getting the zzzs. More healing jingles and sympathies, you seem to be a tough and determined lady, so you'll get through. I'm checking in daily to see how you are doing, so keep posting!

Anne

I really like the DDBB community. I don't post much, but read every day, mainly the Training forum and Obs. I shall endeavour to post more! Like Demi, I very much enjoy following horses and their persons by name (albeit screen name of course), and it is a small enough group to do so. Once I am ridin...

Anne

Catching up with The Board at the end of a work day here in NZ - sending healing jingles your way Linden!! the hospital surroundings look beautiful, and it must be nice to look out on a peaceful, tree-filled view.

Anne

Good luck with the knee surgery and with the move! And so sorry to hear of your mother's death - my dad died in October last year and his absence is a gap in my life. Take good care of yourself (and the lovely Django), and I'm *really* looking forward to any contributions you make to the training fo...

Anne

I've been watching replays on the badminton website, it seems to have live streaming too, but that is middle of the night for me.... https://www.badminton-horse.co.uk/index.php/live-stream/ Like Flight says, the dressage commentary has been interesting, and they put the scores for each movement up a...

Anne

C, thanks for sharing your video. I really like the activity and rhythm of Deneb's trot, and she seems attentive to you. I also really like your steady connection. She looks like a very sensitive type (as you have described), and evidenced by her abrupt transition to walk. Good luck with her, you ar...

Anne

Hope you really enjoyed the dressage champs, and many healing jingles headed to you from across the Tasman.

Anne

We stumbled across a series of training videos presented by a Danish chap called Peter Amris. Here's the link to the first in the series of 12: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj3SvvZ91w4 I really like his approach and way of explaining things, and thought you other boardies might find something to ...

Anne

I'm totally enjoying reading everyone's updates, and love your photos, Flight. PNG_Pony - I'm really interested to find out how your video lessons work, I've been thinking of pursuing something similar as where I am in nz we have few options for instruction. Could you perhaps PM me with a few more d...

Anne

The bridle looks very smart, and what a gorgeous horse. Brrr to all the snow, we are having a hot spell in NZ, so it looks particularly chilly there!

Anne

Thanks for the photos, you are a lovely pair!!

Anne

Oh ouch and damn!! Hope you heal up quickly, and yay for ambo guys that were up for helping with the horse/yard necessities, brilliant.

Anne

Agree with the above - it also helped for us to trot two together and get them into a bit of a 'race'. The horse who likes to be in the lead quickly learned 'big trot' to get to the front. And once he realised he could do it, and we wanted it, we could get it in the arena as well.

Anne

Super photos Rosie, what a happy handsome dog Kirby is. We have a German Short-haired Pointer - his colouration is very similar to Kirby's. He adores birds and has caught one on the wing at least once..... never been interested in chasing balls, but point and retrieve birds, no problem!

Anne

Our 4 are all non-warmblood : 1. 3/4 TB 1/4 Clydesdale, sensitive, responsive, spooky. 2. Andalusian/TB cross, cheeky, somewhat spooky, competing NZ level 2 (US level 1 I think). 3. Irish sport horse (3/4 RID, 1/4 TB), big 16.3hh, lovely loose movement, somewhat tricky personality. 4. 3/4 TB 1/8 Iri...

Anne

Well. I have never shown video of myself on a BB before.... but in the spirit of the new start of the DDBB, and because I do find other people's video's interesting and instructive, here we go with my short counter-canter video. It got a 6 from one judge with no comment, and a 7 from the other judge...

Anne

Glad to see an update here, Brydie it sounds like you made a successful effort (improved canter - yay!), and good luck getting your video sorted. I've made some progress over the last couple of weeks : shallow loops seem balanced and 'easy' (if anything in dressage can be called easy!). I went to a ...

Anne

Thanks all for continuing the discussion, these all seem like really good ideas and I am itching to try them. Not until next week though, as I am away from home at present.

Anne

Good report Demi, that sounds like positive progress to me! I am away from the horses for the next week or 10 days, but will try to report in once I am back in action.

Anne

I had some hopes of developing a photography hobby, but find my time and interest is just not there for a DSLR - I love photos but am more the point-and-snap type.... so, I am about to try to sell my Nikon D5100, but find (as I took it out of its carry case) it looks rather dusty.... is that a big n...

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