The fat chestnut is my absolute favorite. Oh my God!
Agreed, that hack winner was gorgeous.
Congrats again to Jill Wilson and GO APPLE!
fat chestnut in the ring again! 
Also loving the short & fat paint LOL
Ballaghmore Suite
Anyone know his breeding? I couldn’t find anything online.
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1403 BALLAGHMORE SUITE
Radnor Hunt Rebekah Robinson
It will show up on youtube later![/QUOTE]
Thank you.
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Are these rounds going to be archived? I would love to see the fat Irish chestnut. What was his name?[/QUOTE]
Here is the lovely Irish horse! http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cdlwPPP50C0
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Jointed curbs. Any understanding of physics and the anatomy of the horse’s mouth would consign these bits to the dumpster, but they, too are “fashionable”.[/QUOTE]
I’ve always found it really interesting that we disagree so much on this particular point - before I found the hackabit that I use now, I used a pelham with a port for Nikki, both when she was a hunter and for the first year she did the jumpers. It’s one of the only bits that she has liked for more than one ride (I have a whole trunk full of bits I tried with her!) and I’d probably still use that now if I didn’t have the hackabit. The jointed leverage does work for some horses, in my experience.
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Here is the lovely Irish horse! http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cdlwPPP50C0[/QUOTE]
Aww! He is cute as a bug’s ear.
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Jointed curbs. Any understanding of physics and the anatomy of the horse’s mouth would consign these bits to the dumpster, but they, too are “fashionable”.[/QUOTE]
You may not like them, but like SuperShorty, I too have found horses that LOVE a jointed pelham, and detest mullen mouth pelhams. So best to avoid generalizations that something is altogether horrible.
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You may not like them, but like SuperShorty, I too have found horses that LOVE a jointed pelham, and detest mullen mouth pelhams. So best to avoid generalizations that something is altogether horrible.[/QUOTE]
Agreed. My incredibly well-trained horse… ex-grand prix horse… fights any bit that is not a jointed pelham. He loves it!
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I’ve always found it really interesting that we disagree so much on this particular point - before I found the hackabit that I use now, I used a pelham with a port for Nikki, both when she was a hunter and for the first year she did the jumpers. It’s one of the only bits that she has liked for more than one ride (I have a whole trunk full of bits I tried with her!) and I’d probably still use that now if I didn’t have the hackabit. The jointed leverage does work for some horses, in my experience.[/QUOTE]
I guess I go wrong in not thinking of the hackabit as a jointed curb. It’s a hackabit, after all. Watching your videos, (and a bunch of other watching in general) you can see that the noseband (the hack part) keeps the shanks from rotating very far, and the connector bar which some hackabits have between the lower shanks ( and which probably has a name) prevents the mouthpiece from collapsing and changing all the relationships between all the parts. The hackabit is stable and predictable. Unpredictability for the horse is the characteristic of jointed curbs to which I object. Hackabits, especially those with the lower bar, do not have this problem, and the horse has a reasonable chance of knowing what’s about to happen in his mouth. Jointed pelhams do not work this way. Maybe some horses really need to have no idea what’s going to happen on the next pull of the reins, but I have a hard time believing that this is the case for all those horses…
Oh no, sorry, I wasn’t clear - the bit I used prior to the hackabit was a jointed curb bit - it was a ported pelham. I agree that the hackabit, especially the one I use, is not a jointed curb! Sorry for not being clear.
Some nice rounds and really high scores in the 1st year handy round this morning…
Kelley Farmer took 1 and 2, with scores of 92 and 91!
Question from a non-jumper rider…do a lot of riders use an Open Speed class as a warm-up for later classes? I’m not seeing as much, well, speed as I expected in this class. I am, however, seeing some lovely, lovely rides!
Also, as an aside, I like how I can hear almost everything that’s going on in the ring…it’s cool to hear how different horses sound around the course!
Exactly. For many it is a warm up. Most likely only a few will really be very fast.
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Exactly. For many it is a warm up. Most likely only a few will really be very fast.[/QUOTE]
Thanks!
So George has a new rider???
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So George has a new rider???[/QUOTE]
Not watching the feed, but are you talking about Lizzy Gingras’ George? It was always her horse, but Jill Henselwood had the ride initally. She is Lizzy’s trainer.
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Not watching the feed, but are you talking about Lizzy Gingras’ George? It was always her horse, but Jill Henselwood had the ride initally. She is Lizzy’s trainer.[/QUOTE]
I did not know that! Too bad for Jill though, she did really well with him.
