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| KaliTude | Jan 19 2007, 11:18 AM Post #16 |
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Thomas H. Cruise!
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I don't see any. She is just starting to gain muscle along her topline since she just started work in the last couple months. But I do have a nickname for her "Apple Bottom". She was sound on Wednesday evening, best she ever looked on the lunge and felt awesome undersaddle. I even was complimented by the GP level dreasse clinician who was in the ring that night teaching about what a great mover she is... Then last night she seemed off and resistant. So who the heck knows.. |
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| DressageGeek | Jan 19 2007, 05:17 PM Post #17 |
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I Visited Candy Mountain and All I Got Was This Lousy Incision
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Just my own perspective: Ted did this, more so on the right hind. But he is slightly uneven, and obviously had some issue/injury behind (his tail was broken). I have been working with my current trainer (and Ted is 14, 15 end of March) and he has improved greatly. I am also learning how to ask him to move well - he has always tended to be on his forehand, hollowing his back, sticking that leg out (as do I, we're a pair!). he will do it now, but only when he is totally chilled and ambling. One day the trainer asked me to fere lunge him and we watched him, and she was baffled as he moved well, but that AM he had come in dragging. But I have learned that when Ted is sleepy and relaxed he is obviously too chilled to even pick up his feet. |
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| Reynard Ridge | Jan 19 2007, 06:29 PM Post #18 |
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Drivin' The Short Bus
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Amy, have you had his teeth checked lately? And I find that saddle fit has a lot to do with how they move behind. Maybe a new saddle. I've heard good things about the Hennigs. ![]() Sorry. Couldn't resist. By the way, used my super fancy new saddle pad at a clinic last weekend. The crowds went wild. "Hey," they called out, "is that the $700 Pony????"
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| KaliTude | Jan 20 2007, 09:14 AM Post #19 |
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Thomas H. Cruise!
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Well as far as GG goes, the trainer at the barn watched us last night go both directions and said in her opinion she looked great. And to me she felt great. Whatever is going on it's not constant. The one difference it seems is when she goes her best I allow her to warm up for a few minutes on the lungeline w/o sidereins or anything, just WTC both directions a couple times around. So, maybe she is just having trouble carrying the weight, bending and using herself without a short warm up on her own first. When I warm her up undersaddle I do allow her to walk and stretch and trot on a loose rein for a while, but maybe the weight is just difficult for her at this point in her training. Lord knows I am unbalnced myself (someday I WILL stop being so one sided). Anyway, I just post this for Amy, maybe you are seeing the same thing? How is Frodo when you allow him to lunge free? Is he better after a warm up on the lungeline? |
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The crowds went wild. "Hey," they called out, "is that the $700 Pony????"
7:54 AM Jul 11