Following ezduzit’s posting of her recent ride, anyone else willing to put up videos of them riding? I’m interested in what other people do with their horses - videos of trails, schooling, working cows, practicing ground work - whatever!
It seems the dressage / h/j / eventing forums always have someone interested in sharing a video - how about here?
Say what you’re working on and show your progress!
Me? Just waiting for my baby to grow up. She’s getting there! 13.3 in front, and 14.1 behind! She’s a little over a year now! 
Lyric is a 5/8 TB 3/8 QH filly by Huntin For Chocolate.
Lyric, Zach and the Jolly Ball:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCDDH11bHio
Lyric and Zach playing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpYFECD_sc0
and a picture!
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10100167907778498&l=47ae190b33
Well, being an endurance riding fanatic, we often go out and scout trails. This is a ride through the spectacular Sinker Canyon in southwest Idaho. The trail was used on the Owyhee Fandango a couple weeks ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VD6o6Carws8
Here is a short video of Mindy (Bower) doing groundwork with my 5yo homebred TB a few weeks ago. At this point my mare is getting better, she had been taking very short, choppy steps, as Mindy said “stabby”. I had not had her balanced nor bent enough. Mindy is getting her to take longer steps, step in front when she crosses behind, and also in front.
Annie (my mare) tended to drop and push her shoulder at me when she brought her front end around, and go forward. That is why Mindy is forcing her back and around until she crosses in front when she brings her front end around.
I put the music to it because all you could hear was the wind and me saying “Yeah.”
Mindy is Buck’s sister in law and also trains alongside Melanie Smith Taylor in their “TaylorMade Horsemanship Clinics”.
I’ll see if I can get someone to film a schooling ride of us tomorrow!
ok… I’ve got to ask. No disrespect intended AT ALL but what is the lady with the flag doing? I’ve watched it twice now, and I can’t figure out what she’s trying to get the horse to do. Perplexed…
Great thread. I was thinking about the same idea!
Love the trail ride video!
Here is Angel (my mare) playing with a friend a few weeks ago.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10201041212730074
and another
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10201041076126659&l=8418595591826182780
Enjoy!
Love the videos! I’ve never had a horse that would pay any attention to a Jolly Ball, so I’m glad to see some horses make it worth your money!
Love the trail riding video - great editing! What a gorgeous place!
Interesting ground work video with Mindy. I was wondering why she was giving a hard tug straight down on the lead rope at times - the subtlety of what she was going for was lost on me. What was I missing? I would guess that she was trying to get the horse to cross over in front with the front legs instead of crossing behind with the front legs (if that makes sense)?
Angel is quite clever - how fun to play with a horse like that!
Yes, that is exactly part of it. This is just a snip of the session, which is always tricky to show, but I was hoping it would help people trying to do this, with horses that have bad habits (like mine!), who are not balanced, bent and reaching. To see some of the things that can happen.
She wanted my mare to end on the nice crossover in front without falling in and pushing on her, or going backwards. Annie, my mare, is very stiff, always has been and it was very good to see just what I wasn’t getting, on the ground and under saddle. I was TRYING to get it, but I certainly wasn’t being as effective as I needed to be.
Here is a pic of Mindy with my 3yo gelding in a nice balanced and reaching moment.
It was very helpful to have her here as I was going through the motions more than I was actually getting results. Mindy also had to ‘dial her up’ a bit (though she is full TB, lol) because I was so happy with her being ‘quiet’ that I let her be sluggish and unresponsive as well.
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It was very helpful to have her here as I was going through the motions more than I was actually getting results. Mindy also had to ‘dial her up’ a bit (though she is full TB, lol) because I was so happy with her being ‘quiet’ that I let her be sluggish and unresponsive as well.[/QUOTE]
Ahhh, yes, I totally get that!!!:lol: Your horses are very pretty!
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Ahhh, yes, I totally get that!!!:lol: Your horses are very pretty![/QUOTE]
Thank you! And I have really enjoyed your writings on Buck’s clinic, and the photos with your lovely boy!
Thanks for sharing, DLee.
I just LOVE chestnut TB mares
This looks like what happens when MY helper takes my horse- bumps and ‘hey, stop that’ all over where I am missing something!
And then I get my horse handed back, all light and fluffy and in a pleasant mental state…for me to screw up again.
I can definitely see where Mindy is not letting Annie come forward when she is asking Annie to rock her weight back and go sideways.
I’m not at all sure if this is right, but it seems to me at the beginning of the video that Mindy is letting Annie come into pressure (bumps on the lead rope) where you might have been allowing Annie to pull against the lead, to get a sort-of-right bend on the circle. The horse braces against the pull on the lead, and you have choppy steps and a braced horse…
(and this IS a guess!)
I have a PTSD OTTB gelding, that is tremendously athletic and can get very, very troubled. It took me a long time to find the place where I could allow his life to come up without getting scared myself. That boxed the horse in, and troubled him further. We’ve got a lot of that sorted, but not anywhere near perfect yet! Anyway, I sure understand feeling like a low-energy, low life spot is comfortable, when it is really deadening to the horse.
Fillabeana, thanks, yes I think you’re right on. And yes, I got handed a “light and fluffy” horse and was afraid to do anything with it.
It was so very good for me, because like I said, I knew and was practicing the same groundwork, but not nearly to the level it could be done. And Annie is the first TB I’ve had in years not off the track (she is my homebred and yes maybe a tiny bit babied!) so when Mindy said “I want to see what’s in here” I’m thinking “But I don’t want to see what’s in here!” lol. Which is dumb, because of course it’s better to find out what’s “in there” on the ground rather than climb on and then find out.
I took her away from home yesterday and it was a good test to do this again and have her focus on me, I haven’t had her out like I should so it’s still a very big deal to go somewhere different. And sure enough, all that was “in there” showed up in a new place but I had the tools, and she was comfortably familiar with the routine, to focus that energy.
What I thought was a good circle on the ground, Annie not really pulling on me and being fairly light (say, if you were to compare a horse not schooled in this at all) was actually a marginal circle. She may not have been pulling but she was bent slightly to the outside and dropping her shoulder into me. And her toughness of going into the corners when I’m riding her, leg yielding out, is very obvious in this groundwork, Mindy tied it all together for me very well. I’m not a noob, but geez, this can make you feel like one! At least Mindy said “They’re not THAT bad…”:lol:
Thanks again, you were a huge help before my first Buck clinic a couple of years ago.
She may not have been pulling but she was bent slightly to the outside and dropping her shoulder into me.
OK, so what I was thinking wasn’t quite right. Mindy was blocking/having Annie run into pressure when she pushed her shoulder in toward you, not when she tried to lean against the lead. I’ll go watch again- I thought maybe you had been holding Annie’s head in, but you weren’t.
Thanks again, you were a huge help before my first Buck clinic a couple of years ago
I’m glad I was helpful and not just a pain in the butt!
It isn’t all that unusual to come out of a Buck clinic, thinking…"What just happened? I know my horse and I felt good out there, but…what just happened?’
Yeah, these concepts can take a while. You could have counted me right in with propspony as perplexed about Mindy and the flag, three years ago.
Yes, exactly, and since she wasn’t pulling I figured that was pretty good, or good enough, haha!
Mindy is hopefully coming back this summer, and Buck’s coming in September… I love learning.
http://s19.photobucket.com/user/kismom/media/Remy/100_0420.mp4.html?sort=2&o=89
This is from 2006 (I think). Remy was a 4 year old and I was 50+ lbs heavier than I am now. Taken from our video ride at a Pat Wyse clinic. I cringe looking at it now, but it was a lot of fun and Remy was a rock star. Pat told the QHs (we were the only non-QH) to eat their hearts out after the lead changes.
I remember the quality being better when I put it on PB, but it must have changed as they’ve gone thru their many changes.
Remy’s cute - what is he? He looks like he’s very responsive!
PP, he’s a Lippitt Morgan. SUPER responsive and an all around great horse.
I would so love to have an old-time bred Morgan like Tee’s, with that bone, toughness and a lofty trot. I went shopping for one in the mid 90’s, couldn’t find one. I did find lots of Saddlebred-type, narrower chested, high knee action, hot, saddleseat types.
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