Yeah You’re right, mea culpa.
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I agree with this 100%
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PM’d you if you’re curious!
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I was with a friend who worked at Salem Saddlery (later Dover), she did the engraving - saddle plates and such. Well she stopped to talk to a customer about a job and the customer’s pre-teen daughter was with her. The daughter looked me up and down with a sneering, condescending look on her face like I was something she scraped off the sole of her custom paddock boots. Snobby, stuck up little sh__! Let’s see how far that attitude gets you in the end.
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Well I hope you don’t consider a pre-teen as a “gate keeper” to any discipline- they look at everyone like that 
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No, I just was relating an instance of a snot nose tween trying to prove she’s too cool for you (g).
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This is true. I would be Exhibit A.
I would have his kidneys checked as well kidney pain can cause them to do this and it’s not something they always check for.
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Late to the party, but the arguments about dressage vs not-dressage are cracking me up. Apparently, all the dressage lessons I do with my mare (schooling second level, some third) aren’t “real” dressage because we aren’t doing half steps or half passes yet, and I do all the same things in my jump saddle warming up before jumping as well. Or is it only dressage when it’s my dressage saddle, and suddenly not dressage when it’s a jump saddle? Even though we are doing the exact same things? Where is this magical line separating dressage from not-dressage (fake dressage?) so I can inform my 5* (well, old 4*) eventing trainer he can’t call flatwork “dressage” anymore? Gotta tell everyone showing 2nd level and under at my barn they aren’t actually riding dressage too since it’s not the upper levels.
The insistence of separating dressage and flatwork is ridiculous. Proper jumping is nothing but dressage with a few jumps in the way.
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