Hello all, The United States Lipizzan Federation is hosting two breeding evaluations this year, at locations near St. Cloud, MN and Raeford, NC. http://www.uslipizzan.org/evaluationsfun/ Both locations are open to the public, and there's no charge for spectating. The dates for the MN evaluations are...

If we say we don't care for something from a top rider all of the sudden we are wrong? That isn't what you did, though. You didn't say that you "didn't care for it." You said it was a GP test in which Nip Tuck didn't even come close to coming under himself, throughout, and that the piaffe...

Piaffe is a gait unto itself, not a diagonal trot gait, as it was believed to be for decades. Ideally it should appear to be a trot in place, to the naked eye. But as Hilary Clayton and other equine biomechanics have discovered, top GP horses perform piaffe in an astonishing variety of ways. It is n...

...I still don't think you can have an entire GP test where the horse never gets even remotely close to being under himself (and thus showing true collection) and wind up with a 75 in international competition. Not to mention, truly never sits in piaffe or passage. Pause the screen at any point and...

No. I board, so, I need that extra space for overflow. I have boarded in the past at places where we had large tack rooms and room for multiple saddles, even. But currently, and at most recent places, no, we get one saddle rack and one bridle hook and some space for pads and a trunk by our stalls. H...

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