Ok, I can’t wait until tomorrow! It has been a year since I have been inpatient in the hospital!
I hope to be able to ride in the fall, working on getting a portable oxygen concentrator
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Thank you so much!
After much upheaval in the past 18 months, including hip replacement and a broken wrist for me, a stifle injury, ulcers, and a heel boo boo for my horse, changing barns twice and having little coaching, we finally landed in a wonderful situation with a young, talented trainer/coach. In less than two months she got us pulled together to the point where we showed yesterday and got 67% and change at third level. I’m feeling motivated!
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Congratulations! I have gone through something similar and the ‘come back’ was like getting rid of that dam monkey that had been riding on my back for close to two years. Nice way to start a new trend!
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Thanks, and yes, damn monkey BE GONE!
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Moved up to first level at a schooling show last weekend and didn’t embarrass us both! I’m hoping to improve on our scores this weekend.
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Nice!
Ah you know how much I like you two. Never ever will you embarrass. Total respect 
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I got reserve champion at the 2023 California Dressage Society (CDS) Regional Adult Amateur Championship (RAAC) in Novice Training Level. I am 59 and my horse Peleus is 24. Peleus retired from jumping at 18 and I started doing dressage with him three years ago. I have moved up to 1st with four qualifying scores thus far this year. My friend got qualifying scores at 2nd with him. He is a special horse and I am amazed he is still sound considering his huge jumping career and a prior suspensory injury.
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My mare finally has this feeling of opening up and reaching forward to free up back and neck in that reaching forward way we want. She has a short neck, and it makes a dramatically different feel in how she uses her body.
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I got another horse and I guess my brag would be that I tried her 
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She is a 3 year old Hanoverian mare started 6 weeks ago under saddle.
I am a bit excited because she is really a very very nice horse and I bought her because I finally found a good dressage trainer and she is going to be our project.
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We had regionals this weekend. My mare is just a doll and we are going to keep having so much fun! Third place in our championship class with an overall 66% (68 from one judge, 64 from the other), and second in our warmup class.
I managed to not fall apart in the awards lineup thinking about my trainer who bred her and wanted me to have her and passed away last year. She was such a gift from him, helping me work out how to manage to buy her, and at a bargain price, plus all he taught us to get us on this path. I’m loving the trainer I’m riding with now, but even doing entry forms and getting the the line asking for the breeder always hits me with gratitude.
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Kudos to you for your achievement, and extra kudos for honoring your horse’s breeder by putting his name on your entry forms.
I wish more people would do that. I get it that some people don’t know who their horse’s breeder is, but for those with registered horses, the name is right there on the registration papers. Folks, the breeder dreamed your horse and deserves to be remembered and recognized.
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The closest my mare and i’ve ever gotten to a show! lol. I just hand-walked her for a couple of hours, though i had bought a day-pass to a stall at NEC in St. Charles. Rainy day, we were the only ones there although they had slots available for 10. All we did was walk around and meet all the corners of the warm up ring, of the smaller back arena. We walked down the center and stopped on X. We did two diagonals.
But that was after wandering around the grounds, up and down the banks of stalls, she wandered into a few that had something that interested her. She walked into all four wash stalls and got a warm water rinse over her whole body. We met the stall cleaners. We met the bathroom cleaner. And we touched and walked by alllll the machinery. In and out of all the doors into rings.
She did pretty darn well. It was an hour and a half drive each way. But the temperature was cool. All in all, a pretty nice adventure on a rainy day.
lol look guys…my horse in an actual arena!!
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She looks cute and kind of curious!! . You should do this more often with her it’s like a field trip and she will bond even more with you 
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ahh thanks. I think she’s pretty cute too :). Experience was pretty amazing. For 60$ i had the entire place to myself! I’ve scheduled three more visits. Unfortunately she has a shin splint so I’m not riding her for a few more weeks, and she’s off pasture too. She was going a bit stir-crazy in the barn so i had to think of a way to stimulate her. She’s 15h but MY o my…she looked like a puppy in that big ring. Oh, and she LOVED her warm-water rinse. Those dark spots on her is when the machine went by and kicked up barn dust over her wet pelt.
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Is she from the BLM like many of your other guys? What a cute pony, I especially love her pretty head!
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Thanks :). She does have a pony looking head…looks like a pony in both head and conformation too. But she’s 15h. She’s from the humane society (st. louis) large animal rescue. i have 7 horses and 2 mules from them.
that neck of hers though…that’s all curly baskir. They have short thick necks…
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