Merry, your dream sounds like the one I use to have about Elliot and I.
I know Hambola and you will make it. 
Hope that you are taking mega photos today Duffy dahling!!! LOL
V. .V
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All of mine seem to bend better to the right than the left, even the one that drifts/pulls left when jumping.
I always assumed it was me.
Beezer, kick miss Merry into gear. We want details… 
Serendipity how long must he lunge before being ridable? Any chance you can cut it in half, so you get some riding time? Also, sometimes feed can have those engines reving…Less protein maybe? Or anyone like a friend/buddy able to help you out just a little? Maybe give him a quick lunge during the day or put him in the round pen for you.
Thank you! I have thought of that, I will also check his saddle fit again and maybe he needs to get his teeth floated again. That certainly can’t hurt. His saddle was checked by a saddle fitter about two months ago and his teeth were floated last February. I also was thinking of getting him a massage.
My trainer is very very quick to think about pain being the issue when there’s a behavior problem (which is a good thing!) but she didn’t feel that in this case he was uncomfortable.
Reason is, he was fine and wonderful when we were out of sight of the herd (unfortunately, the only place to ride is in the pasture where he’s turned out 24/7) but when we were trotting by where they were hanging out, that’s when the problems occurred. Going away, he was straight and forward and soft, going right by them and towards the barn (they were on the left munching grass) the battle began.
On Saturday when I rode, I do believe that I pushed him too much. Trot was nice and forward no problems there. Then cantering, once or twice around fine (very small ring). Third time around, buck and swap to wrong lead. I think he had had enough. Problem was I felt I had to end on somewhat of a good note, a small glimmer. But he kept on bucking and switching, escalating into very mad horse. Finally, I got one nice stride and hopped off.
I normallly ride him about a half an hour but the last couple of riding times, I have been asking a bit more of him. We went to a show two weekends ago and while the judge liked him, she said he must move more forward or this is going to become a habit. One of our comments were “barely trotting” and “shove him in front of your leg!”. So, this has been somewhat of a switch with him, while I still only ride around 30-45 minutes, I’m not just putzing around the field any more, we are working more.
And of course, a huge problem is me. I feel my leg isn’t as steady as it was (although not so bad that it would warrent the reaction I have been getting). I have a longe lesson scheduled with a trainer on a different horse so that I can concentrate on myself.
And LaurieB I think you’re on to something, I haven’t been down as much lately (but that will change now) and I need to work on the respect thing more. I completely agree that it carries over to undersaddle work. While a part of me would love to hand him over to my trainer and say “here, you fix him” I know that’s not going to fly for him respecting and listening to me.
[This message was edited by Meshach on Oct. 24, 2001 at 02:17 PM.]
I, too, have fallen prey to the idea that Tess, who sometimes picks nonsensical things to spook at, must continue working until the issue is fully resolved to my satisfaction, passing by said item as many times as I want. However, as my trainer pointed out, insisting that everything be exactly right, right now, can lead to further resistance. With a young one, it’s much better sometimes to settle for good enough and leave the ring while you’re both still happy, rather than going for that last time around.
<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Merry:
Oh JumperEq, don’t feel alone. It’s no lie that Hammie often looks as if he’s conversing with me on course. 
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Merry, as usual, resorts to understatement when it comes to Hammie’s antics. 
“Conversing,” Merry dear? Oh is THAT what it’s called these days.
Bulletin Board Goddess
Sounds like a good way to do the L/S division.
I have no idea if the WSHA is that way in my state or not.
Guess I shall be finding out, haha
Atleast it isn’t like my day where you started at 3’6", which is my goal 
, but a far off one.
<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Merry:
Well, the winds died down enough for me to ride Hammie today. He was sooo wonderful schooling over fences on Thursday at my trainer’s, so yesterday he just hung out in his paddock. I figured, he’d be great for a 10-minute hack today.
Let’s just say if I had a dollar for every twenty-meter circle I cantered in the “scary” corner, well… I’d have the $ for that new-fangled GPA helmet I’ve been admiring.
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Merry, that’s a self-fulfilling prophecy–kind of like that disappearing sock thing Beezer has been talking about on Off Course (I think I may be mixing my metaphors here ).
It never fails, the days I get on Tess for a light, twenty minute ride are the ones that end with us making lots of little circles and maybe dragging out the draw reins.
oh…you didn’t get the memo when you got the greenie? The twisty head thing is mandatory LOL.
Curb chains jingling too Pam!!
We are glad to hear how well Sophie Moose is doing. But, it would be extra nice, to hear you are doing well too. Cantering small poles on the ground, and doing your changes
This should be my horses’s nickname sometimes – he likes to do things His Way!
He has a natural 14 ft. stride, so when he was still Very Green, we were using a 9-ft rail to a trot jump to teach him where to leave from. That was working well; he was respecting the trot rail, and then jumping the jump nicely. So then my trainer says, let’s canter the fence. She moved the rail out a bit, and we rode down to it in a nice, slow canter. Well, I’ll be darned if he didn’t jump both the rail AND the jump!
So we know he can do the water…
Then, just the other day, finally able to start working on me again, we were doing a gymnastic line. It was set up as a trot in, one to a one to a one. (Did them a few weeks ago, too, and he was fine. He peeked a bit the first time down, but really concentrated.) So this time, he was a bit forward the first time, which was OK, 'cause I was a bit nervous, not knowing what to expect from him 
. So we went through a few more times, and he just kept getting stronger and stronger. (Yes, we had canter poles in the middle of all but the first one.) I said, he’s bored and not respecting this height (2’6"). My trainer said, (rightly so) he needs to respect the fences no matter what height they are. So she gets on. Trots in nice and slow. Guess he thought, I’ll show them, because he bounced the first one stride, and probably would have bounced all the way out if she didn’t set him down on his hocks.
Sigh. Frank. That’s his new nickname.
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Merry:
Barbie Cow and Tigger need to get some experience under their belts (or girths).
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Jade is in the same boat. Unfortuantely she has put on a few pounds over the winter and let me tell you… NOTHING is going to fit under that girth of hers!
Acually the greenie is ripening into a nice lovely red tomato and may be making her debut in the 1st Year Greens in 2 weeks!
I bought a horse in July at Lake Placid that had been broken for only 6 weeks. I am sure glad I didn’t read all these replies first.(haha)
My greenie, named Caesar, has been great. I hope to see all of you in the pre-greens soon.
Well this is kind of a follow up to my old enough to know better not green mare’s Christmas adventure chronicled here about 12 pages ago.
We got rid of the temporary stalls behind the partition at the spooky end of the indoor ring and those decorations, especially the jingly Santa Claus are long packed away so you would think things would have settled down. Especially since it really hasn’t been that cold.
But NOooooooooo.
They have decided to change the stall doors a bit. They’re metal with vertical bars like a jail cell. Absolutly guarenteed to be a size and heavy enough guage that NO horse could stick a hoof through.
Well we know better then that one don’t we. After they stopped the horse-no not mine thank the lord-and got the stall door off his back leg he was only laid up for 90 days.
The decision was made to weld a screen on the doors to prevent this nonsense from reoccuring.
You know, hook up the air compressor and just weld them on.
Of course this was done at the far end of the arena, behind the partition and took 2 weeks. Yes 2 weeks of smoke belching and compressor roaring from behind that mysterious partition.
Needless to say I had the welders lunch hour figured to the minute
And timed my rides accordingly.
It’s cold here. I wanna go to Florida. Or Rivendell.
Hello,
I love reading all your stories – they’ll keep me motivated for a while!
I bought my greenie at the end of June (eek! and it’s already October!). He’s a 5 y.o. appendix QH, who fortunately is super cute, because he’d be Alpo several times over by now if wasn’t. We’re starting to figure out the whole ‘ground manners’ thing, as well as the basics of the ever-frightening Going To The Right. He is so assymetric that when I fitted him for his saddle we had to decide if we were going to fit his right or left side. I figure he either had some sort of injury as a foal (saw nothing in PPE X-rays, though), or the TB/QH split in him has resulted in a TB left side and a QH right side.
If he masters the whole Going To The Right (henceforth GTTR) concept, he’ll be searching for a show name for next summer (I’ll be looking for some help there, hint, hint).
Looking forward to some greenie support networking!
–R
Good for you! But sadddddness on the camera front!
Duffster: Can’t wait to see the photos!
DMK & Laurie: Yup, that’s what I’m waiting for, the ol’ “watch how I give her a flying change when she doesn’t even really want one, like right in front of the jump.”
Pam: I swear, more evidence that we are indeed former conjoined twins. I am always riding/riding/riding. I somehow feel like I can always make the approach to the jump jeeest a litle bit better.
Today Hammie bit the farrier on the butt while he was tacking his front shoe on. So Hammie got in trouble— by me, no less. Then he reached over and bit me! Yeah, he loves me. Uh-huh.
“Friends don’t let friends eat fish tacos.”
Okay, I have a reasonably fast computer and a DSL line so I should be getting to the last page of the Baby Greenie thread pretty fast, but it does seem to take quite a while for Infopop to skim through the pages to get to that last one.
Now, I wouldn’t mind seeing multiple topics, but I’d like to see some sort of hint that they pertain to the Baby Green topic. Like, Baby Green - Starting Over Fences; Baby Green - Winter Exuberance; Baby Green - Showing Issues; Baby Green - Monsters in the Ring, etc. I think losing track of all the good stuff is the really main reason the posts stay on the one topic.
Can anyone else think of ways to soothe Erin’s nerves but keep the topic together - other than just continuing on through page 67 on the way to page 100 and even higher?
I did use the term “spawn of satan”. I can’t think of any other way to describe an animal that throws in spook after temper tantrum after spook after spook. How this horse has not dumped me a hundred times (nevermind not a single time) is quite beyond me. Because that is most certainly his intention.
