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heddy--I know! It's astonishing. They don't do these vital tests that everyone should do every year as a baseline. My GP won't get me to a specialist because nothing "abnormal" shows up on my blood tests, so I'm trying to get the best information to supplement on my own. I am so sorry for ...

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My new primary care physician took one look at my long list of weird, seemingly unrelated, problems that have been increasing over the last 5 years, and asked if anyone's ever tested my B12 levels. I was low. So low that I'm on my third month of weekly shots. I don't know if there's a correlation, ...

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Blob, have a little snippet they may help. I was working with my leasor on Quilla trying to get her to ride bend and a circle without overbending the neck and doing the turn with the outside rein. She is getting the changes, but has had a lot of trouble. Initially, she couldn't even get Q to canter ...

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Hmm. I would say both of mine are very sensitive and can get hot. Maybe go into it thinking I'll walk for 3 or 20 steps, I'll halt, I'll back up, or I'll just change, focusing on the correct aides. One of the things I've also added that helps a lot is verbal signals. "Aaaaaand" is w're goi...

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I have not really been riding, but my leasor is trying to work on flying changes, and I let her ride both girls. They are both very willing to do them for her IF she asks correctly. Changes are something you want to do right the first time because it's a real bugger to try to fix them. I would start...

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Aleuronx--I agree. Get a tailcoat.

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exvet--You are spot on with the lateral work. I pretty much lost my left half pass because I was tight/blocking with my inside hip and hand. Chelsey really helped me with this--she said it looked like the horses were stuck and dropped to the inside. I think of sort of scooching from the outside hip ...

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mari--I'm with you, but on the being able to get back on a horse and do more than sit there track. Last week I tried to do a couple of trot and canter circles and my arms and abdomen were aching for days. Sigh. I'm lucky I can not ride and I have people who are mostly getting them out. I go there, b...

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Just, hugs, khall. I won't be allowed to even do that, if I even learn if my mom is gone. Hugs.

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Good idea, chisamba. I have done that, too. Let them go as fast as they want on a small circle, and keep them there with the outside rein. It's lot of work for them, so you sitting very relaxed and letting them go as fast as they want only involves them.

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Hugs, khall.

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Thank you. I am super lucky in that I have the ability to be able to do nothing. I just wanted to share so if you feel it, test it. Everyone should get yearly blood tests just as a baseline. Make sure your ferritin is tested as well as D, and I'm still trying to figure out the B's. If we all had thi...

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Mari--you get extra points from me for the spots. I'm with you on the halt. Argh. I train and train and train, and everything is great at home, and I can't tell you how many times we piaffe in the first halt. The last one is usually good, but Quilla likes to turn her head back and look at you if she...

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I'm getting around to finishing watching some of the freestyles. I was not a fan of Indian Rock nor the ride he was given. But I just loves Becky Moody's ride and Jagerbomb. I also wasn't thrilled with how tight in the neck Fame was but I wonder if that's more conformation than anything else. I enj...

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Xanthoria Your mare sound like mine were. They were always chill on the ground, hacking around and so on, but once they got revved up, it just kept going up and up. And, interestingly, my mares have always been much better in season--very cool and wiggly and relaxed.

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Lipsmacker--I 100% agree with you on Becky Moody and the french riders. Those should be at the top, though it is OK to see horses you like at that top that are super energetic, because they aren't wrong. And you are right on the transitions! SUPER hard. I think a lot of people would agree with me, I...

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That's a bummer, chisamba. Too many people don't really want to do with the real issues. It's easier to make simplistic declarations. Interestingly, Global Dressage Analytics is working on a program to digitize tests to do just this thing. It would be a great teaching tool. Can I ask, how do you mak...

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Tanga, he definitely is tight in the scapula area. Are you talking about the release where you kind of press your hand into the crease by their shoulder? Yes. Mine LOVE it. I hold their head for my balance and they bring it towards me and I can get my whole hand in there. The more I do it, the more...

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SI finally just let her go, and never tried to hold her back. It was brutal for awhile. And when she slowed down on her own, I would ask her for a little more forward and then ask her to slow down, and she would do it. Let her go - galloping? or trotting around as fast as she liked? Yes. It was not...

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I have no good feedback on this, but maybe a suggestion. It's my suggestion for everything--massage, body work. The scapula release is my answer for a lot of things. Tossing, tight heads and back seems to come from the bracheopcephalus and muscles in the thorasic sling. I play with it a little diffe...

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Sounds like you're trying everything. My first GP mare was like that. I had to gallop her up a steep hill a couple of times to get her chill enough to work. I don't know that being super fit is bad. My older mare I just lost was like that, too. I got her as a badly broke 8 year old broodmare. She wa...

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Lipsmacker. I made a video just for you! Trying to do a website to store info. wasn't working, so trying Facebook. Quilla does ALL kinds of things with her mouth: https://www.facebook.com/61564272925096/videos/1141189543647150 Chisamba, you inspired me to do this. I have all of the comments about ea...

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Chismamba, going back to watch the freestyles as I am answering so I can answer clearly. Freestyle/Dafur--Her p/p is mostly correct, though you can see on this third day she's not as solid, but nowhere near as bad as the ones I mentioned. Her mouth--I see what you mean, but it doesn't really bother ...

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zevida-agree that jumping final was the most amazing thing ever. Chisamba--I think what you suggested may well happen. Eventing is insanely expensive and time consuming to put on, and dressage takes a lot of time. I can't see with more and me places not wanting to host the games, that that will happ...

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lipsmackerpony Swishing tails and working mouths is not marked down as is. Responses that show resistance work are. So, if the horse just chews all of the time, or is one of those horses that opens their lips when concentrating, that's fine. It's steady. If (the easiest one) you ask the horse to bac...

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Khall, I'm sorry. I feel for you with Rip and your mom. Hugs.

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I finished with all of it. In response to you, blob, pretty much agree. I like Dalera and Jessica, but overscored. I generally really like Hermes, also who is correct. I think Glamordale is OK, but the incorrect p/p is not being scored as it should, let along the "extended" trot. Isabel We...

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Ya'll need to finish up so we can discuss! I've been feeling like crap, so watched all of day two today. Mountaineer, I agree with your husband, Jagerbomb was impressive. I don't remember all of the horses, but there were a lot of REALLY nice horses and riders I wasn't very aware of, and very nice t...

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Flight--agree about Carl's horse, Fame. This is what I don't like the trend of--tight, no neck horses. Adrienne's horse is like that. That was Jane with the nick. Just starting day 2. Glamordale is lovely, but still got an 8 for an "extended" trot with no overtrack. they did catch he siwtc...

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No one has started it! So I will. VERY happy to say Peacock actually has replays of everything for only $18 a month, and you can only do one month. Good, because I can barely stay awake during the day, so trying to watch middle of the night wouldn't happen. I'm mostly through day one. Thoughts. I al...

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khall--So sorry about your mom. I feel for you. I'm back to nightmares almost nightly about mom since she's basically been kidnapped and isolated again. I have a feeling she's dead. I'm mostly focused on health trying to deal with massive fatigue. Some days I feel OK, and some days I do a little wor...

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"They" won't. But the rest of us with brains, morals, and a clue what is going on in the world will, and they will continue to show how disgusting they are as she takes down that POS. The people whining about Biden being too old have zero excuse now, and I LOVE how Kamala calls out the POS...

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I listened to someone who was talking about this this morning. We've all done bad things. We've all done things we regret. We can all do better. we could all be called out as abusers if videoed at the wrong moment. As much as it is so easy to jump on this as abuse, I think it's a an "easy"...

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khall I know. It's stunning. Everything about him is disgusting, cheating, and lying and they love it. I keep going back to we had to learn how many horrible people there really are. Adding, kind of feeling hopeful with Kamala. I know, how DARE a strong, woman of color, who doesn't take shit run for...

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NICE half pass, Aleuronx. I forgot, a woman at the barn who has her horse in pasture in mine is a movie director with her husband. Friday we did a barn party and previewed it. SO good. Called Hoof Beats (the name is the worst thing.) It follows three women going for the 2020 Olympic eventing team. G...

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khall wrote:Tanga I have no idea how anyone with two brain cells could support T

And THIS is the biggest issue, isn't it. Ten years ago could you even have imagined that people are this stupid? The lesson we had to learn--a third of the population are immoral, useless, stupid people.

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Geez. I hope the country can get it's shit together.

Anyone with a brain who can do some good for most people, versus give all of the welfare to the rich and ya'll pull yourselves up by the bootstraps. How can it even be a choice?

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Oh no, goldhorse! I am SO sorry!

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Yeah, Khall!

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I 100% disagree about the choices. I wasn't for Biden when he got in, but he's accomplished way more than I thought he could, and even being faced with a psycho ranting the same inanities over and over, after being befuddled, he went back to detailed facts about what has happened, what can be done, ...

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Tanga, so long as i sleep for about two hours or 3 hours, i do well. When i finally sleep for 8 i wake up tired, grumpy and cranky. I am SO jealous! Man. I am at the opposite end of the spectrum from you. I think IF I could sleep a sloid 8, I would be OK, but sometimes 10 s not ev enough. Mountaine...

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Chisamba--Can you PLEASE share with me your secret sauce for all of your energy? How can you even do that? Ugh. HOT. No AC at home. Literally hosing down the house ten times a day and using fans to cool off at night. And it's only day TWO. Had a show Sunday and I was feeling it was a bit much, and t...

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Me, and anyone with a soul and brain. Totally terrifying we've gone backwards so much and we have discovered how many downright stupid, evil people there are.

I'm with you on the second statement, too.

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khall I am so sorry. this is a hard road. That's what I found is that it is cheaper to find a good facility that to try to do 24/7 care in the home, and it's probably better for her. Sad to say, if your mom is like mine, I think it doesn't matter to her because she can't remember. This might help yo...

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I have discovered, and I hope this helps, I need to sit tall, not back. Sitting tall allows my seat to move with the jump of the stride, sitting back stops the seat from swinging and is like hitting the brake. Yes. This is the way. It can also drop their back and interfere with them if you sit back!

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OMG, Chisamba! Amazing! I wish I could get this slab of fat off my belly. Just, wow.

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Good job, Mountaineer. Axel is not a high scoring judge. And I always like to ride under Rogers.

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She is suffering from depression & anxiety along with her cardiac disease and dementia. In some ways her memory loss [of things she used to do and/or loved] is more of a blessing but her failure to remember to take her medications isn't. Stuff we're all dealing with I know. Makes me even more a...

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Josette, that is the way I would go. You have to do what you need to do for your horse.

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Chisamba--That sounds a lot like what I've gone through with Quilla. We got to GP, did pretty well for about a year, and then she got anxious and started anticipating and doing things like stopping. If I tried to push her, esp. in a show, she would rear and capriolle. It got MUCH worse if I tried to...

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