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My daughter is going to the one in NYC, and my DIL to the one in Seattle.

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I have green/hazel eyes. A color which is also recommended to make a pop with them is a purple. (I tend to only use whites/browns...but I do like some of the purples. I am brunette.) So for blonde, maybe a lighter variety of that? Mulberry

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American amazon has them: https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss ... Creme+Eggs

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Read other of her studies, not a horse person.

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Much more importantly the intelligence supposed to be about (problematic) financial dealings (since his have NOT yet been released in general), and about the senate and congressional leaders.

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(One lady's indoor there already collapsed!)

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Certainly the first part of school WP (because there is no air time) is to keep the mobility/regularity of walk, largeness. If the horse learns to cheat in collecting the walk it easily creates the need to push to keep it, which means the likelihood of lateral walk increases. And yes, walk is the la...

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The thing is that that there are good points of use of travers circles can also have a negative of too much bending, which can truncate the purity of the canter. Agree about the quality of walk, canter, almost walk, canter, walk, etc....horse in front of the leg. The problematic thing that horses ge...

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Cantering on and collecting is done progressively. The horse has to take half halts. It is almost onto the spot, and abandoned before the horse dwells. The better the clarity/quality of collection the easier the turning will be. Same thing for walk pirouettes, which come first. Isnt 'counter bent le...

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There are two issues in collecting: 1 the horse learning, and 2. (for sure) the rider learning the power of their posture/use of the seat (vs the hand per se). Imho the lack of ability to being able to collect (the biggest step into second level) is about the clarity of hh (of asking and allowing ),...

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Imho the horse must be able to do those exercises si/c.si, and t to r in trot (primarily), and in canter (more difficult). HI on a big circle must be fairly easy (but si is much more important (keeping the control of shoulders/straightness) than is mobilizing the quarters). Smaller circles with upri...

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It starts with one step, not even onto the spot. If the horse cannot be gathered, how are they to canter onto the spot, even for a quarter pirouette. So, the question is rather why the horse shuts down imho. Certainly a horse should be able to do walk pirouettes (understand the aids), and figure 8s ...

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But that is not collecting, IF the horse stops. It is asking and allowing w/o that happening. The rider sits up more, stills the seat, horse starts to react, rider immediately (almost before it starts) exits. The almost onto the spot, is not to be sustained. It is not a submission issue, it is balan...

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It is just ask (collect), turn, go forward. If it is less what is the rider doing? Collecting but not turning, or turning but not going forward. For me that misses a step. THE first issue is collecting (onto the spot) before asking any turning. If they cannot do that they cannot turn. Are they into ...

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Ok, have a question: how many strides are those easy/less/hardest? Usually one first asks for a canter almost onto the place and moves on. A quarter pirouette is collect (into the outside rein), move into turn, ride forward again from inside leg(st across), three strides (collect, enter/turn, go for...

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My student just lost her (upcoming fei) horse on Xmas day (he was outside/playing and coliced badly and died within an hour). I would LOVE to get her something like this (for next year). Message me if you do that.....

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Who will be there: here's what be a basic list...keep returning to who is highest rank (some have retired, some have died, some have been sold off). But at least a basic 'perhaps'. https://data.fei.org/Ranking/Search.asp ... gCode=D_WR

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I see two primary uses: 1event riders or those who want less to clean, and 2 especially good for reschooling horses which have had their bars abused by precipitous flexion/low closed postures and/or are very defensive/sensative/etc with their mouths--use the snaps to hold the bit forward. (Of course...

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Usually if you know the piece number you can replace them. I had a channel changer for an OLD like 15 years + sony tv (only gets the 1-99 stations) that I used in a guest room, but I was able to replace it with the last one in Seattle by doing a search, and it was cheap.

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(one of those is like 3cents used...only pay shipping). What I often do is use the different stitches within any piece. Just make sure that you have extra yarn!!!

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I like this one: https://www.amazon.com/Leisure-Plastic-Canvas-Stitch-Dictionary/dp/1609001982/ref=sr_1_4?s=arts-crafts&ie=UTF8&qid=1482355268&sr=1-4&keywords=needlepoint+books And this one: https://www.amazon.com/Needlepoint-Book-Jo-Ippolito-Christensen/dp/0136109721/ref=sr_1_1?s=ar...

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If a horse gets stronger after/during jumping, it is not about the bit. It is about going back to relax and not participating in the horse's drama. Ride a circle, or figure 8 (or 10 of them), or walk, until the horse relaxes---then restart the work. Half halts can be pulsed (upward into the corners ...

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That you SO much redsox.....do you live in Boston? Will have to get together when I visit my DD (in Weymouth)

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Think I am in that 'no note' group. I got a bottle of Balsamic Fino. Thanks SO MUCH to my kringle.

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Always clicked up, most particularly when going x-c. That said, they fairly easily go flip up/down (passier).

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I would be the nay sayer, imho it has allowed the demise of traditional training. Kurs were around for some period of time which allowed the horse to show strengths and hide weaknesses, but technique was still the most important thing. Once (an iceskater) started musical freestyle, the scores went u...

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Glad it made ya happy....EARLY before xmas......

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(do so, I will send them)

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For me, ideally starting 3:1 (allows for the most stability of the curb) with the 3 hand held over the withers, and it allows the most (specific lateral flexibility--which is the job of the snaffle), or 2:2 (shultheis/fillis style) as Chisamba states (with curb under pinkie and snaffle over points)....

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The amount of ignorance combined with fear is overwhelming in this country. But it is true that the majority voting for him are those with (at best) a HS education and male. And he did play on fear (of those any minority or perceived threat). What we need is EVERYONE to VOTE. I am conservative, but...

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Why not ride side saddle, that protects the hips.

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Whether one chooses to depart from inside or outside leg is not the question however. And I think a case can be made for both. For sure the leg positioning is the same regardless. But the OP was asking about aids DURING the canter, and the 'accelerator' for sure is the inside leg. As far as position...

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The placement of the legs (inside closer to the girth/outside back) for the depart is not about what they do during the canter. The inside leg is the 'gas', the 'fluffed' of the quality of canter. And outside leg is passively down and back (if used the horse will easily become crooked). The aid to e...

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I start in hand as soon as the horse is confirmed in wtc. First, in hand. Walk from whip raised, halt from it dropped. Then halt, back up (which is diagonalizing), and then forward (with hh upward on the caveson)...never holding backward. Then rider put on and handler doing the 'enflaming', and grad...

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I am using DMSO that was my dads from when he was a test dr for its human use (that is really a long time ago probably 50+ years, and yes I do use it). Remember, it was 'discovered' because of a person in a pulp mill who had his arthritic hands in it frequently and they got better. (Long term exposu...

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A simple change however is 2-3 strides, not steps.

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3-5 steps is from barely a stride, but not even two. So, perhaps being low/closed make it looked rush. But it was correct IF the horse is supposed to show steps vs strides.

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Restaurants in Lima??? Central or Astrid & Gaston, or ??? Going to Lake Titicaca as well. Just wondering what were the highlights? And whether you had any altitude sickness at all?

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Has anyone gone to Peru? And special places you enjoyed (eating/enjoying to look at/etc) in Lima, Cusco, Puno? Thanks a lot.

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(yet his tongue was out even in the trot ups in a halter....hmmm) The worst part: she was getting a 75% average for the entire test before she retired....WITH the tongue out (which IS considered a major resistance and should take off at least 2-3 points per movement). And we wonder why riders contin...

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Horses have way more capability that most riders find the key to discovering. And what does a small trot mean? Lack of stride length, lack of freedom, or not being asked to thrust and stay balancing in the first place? The expression of the trotS are a result of energy and balance, but first comes c...

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The upper arms go from hanging vertically and through the shoulder socket and elbow joint allow however much the horse offers (early on). A 'complete' bascule. The degree of allow changes when following free walk (on loose rein and on long rein), to the changing balance of medium walk, to collected ...

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I agree in part, if the neck lengthens AND the throat latch opens, then the stride can be freer (perhaps lengthen). But if the neck lengthens but the bearing stays the same, the stride will likely not change much. mho Agree that the horse should stay out to the hand within transitions. But if the hi...

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Any horse which tends to have an arab type conformation which has a long neck/slightly high set/usually thin throatlatches (arab/friesan/etc) need to spend a longer period of time (not just minutes each day, but like 6 months) of sustaining a slightly longer but mostly more open posture. (Still mout...

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(Khall, I do come east (west/north/south/and even canada..and out of the country---Greece/S.A./Asia/etc)

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NAY nay nay. It grows into everything.

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Of course, you cant too linear. But intuition is based on observational skills as well. Horses are very logical, and react as equines. And of course riding is all about expirimentals within limits. But it is about respecting the nature of the horse.

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Anyone who is interested, read what event riders like Denny Emersen have to say (who have 60+ years in the sport, or kim, or etc). I think he is about given up, but he has stated the obvious repeatedly. This is not about frangible pins, which actually can allow a horse to become more sloppy, and tab...

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I have a small kindle fire (with color) with the most memory it comes with but only for books, it fits in my purse. I take it everywhere. I also have (large) apple ipad pro (and use it as well). If you forget your glasses, both can be changed to large print. Ipad's lighting can be made less or more ...

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Just say Chisamba's post. Technicians are intially rather robotics, they work on every detail. And imho that is what we can all do. And intitally it is very boring, but still useful. But it can become artistic at some point because it is associated to feeling (you know the change from conscious comp...

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