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Oct 28 08 4:45 PM
There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need. TTL; two years and many more. <3
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"If riding were only blue ribbons and bright lights, I would have quit a long time ago"~ George Morris "Virginia has the nicest horses"~ George Morris "Riding is first a sport, then an Art. That's why I make a lot of money"~George Morris "Do as little as possible, but as much as necessary"~George Morris "Distances are like men... never take the first one you see, there will always be another one"~George Morris "Function equals form, and form equals function"~you guessed it :)
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Oct 28 08 4:57 PM
Hunter Princess wrote: Please, PLEASE do not go to a hunter show with a roached mane, schooling show or not.
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Oct 28 08 5:04 PM
JowAngel wrote: HunterPrincess - Hey how do you do that tail braid??? I was dabbling with it a little just for fun (I don't show really) and I was wondering about it and forgot to look it up. Do you know of a good website that explains? Also, I take it you aren't supposed to leave it in long? I did a really loose one just about 6 inches down and only with the very edges of tail hair up top, and then when I took it out a little tiny chunk of hair came out too. I thought because it was loose it would be ok...guess not!
Oct 28 08 5:08 PM
Lyzzacious wrote: Hunter Princess wrote: Please, PLEASE do not go to a hunter show with a roached mane, schooling show or not. I've heard a bunch of hunters around my area talking about how they roached their horse's manes because they didn't have very nice manes or braids didn't look good on them. Just because YOU are a hunter 'princess' doesn't mean that the OP wants to be. Monoveros, roaching would be ok since you only plan on going to local, SCHOOLING shows. You're not competing against people from all over the nation so it shouldn't matter...besides, as long as the horse looks neat, well-cared for/well-prepared, and workman-like, that should work.
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baxtersmom wrote: This is why it's not worth bothering to "dabble" in hunters. Just come over to the dark side. Roached manes are just fine for eventers, up to and including the AECs (we have several in our barn, draft crosses whose manes are just too much of a pain to braid).
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GasMenagerie wrote: Oooo... if only I was 20 years younger! I wish I had gotten into it in my youth!
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baxtersmom wrote: GasMenagerie wrote: Oooo... if only I was 20 years younger! I wish I had gotten into it in my youth! We have a gal in our area who didn't start riding until her late forties and started eventing in her fifties! Also, a guy in his 70's who runs Training level with his 20+ y/o Morgan! It's really fantastic how much you learn about riding training for all the disciplines... even if you never compete.
It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt
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WhoKilledBambi wrote: no kicking the nerds. We need them for sciencing.
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Oct 28 08 7:50 PM
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Monoveros6 wrote: I would love to do eventing! It's my ultimate goal, but I'm going slowly...I've only been able to start jumping recently. I'm not sure my mare could hold up to it or jump safely. Then again, I've heard that the really low events have tiny jumps, and we could do that...I just don't know where to find them! I just figured some hunter schooling shows; I've been to one, and am showing on the school's huntseat team, and it's a lot of fun. I love my mare, but her big ol' ears, general level of training, age and lack of natural talent pretty much confine us to lower level anything. (Which I'm ok with, she's worth it!) She has such a yucky, frizzy mane that her neck looks so much better roached, I think. And, frankly- it's low maintenance! I like it. I don't want to be laughed out of the ring though.
Oct 28 08 7:58 PM
Query for HP: You've said a couple of times that hunters isn't as bitchy as people think it is. Wouldn't marking someone down for competing with a hogged mane - if everything is turned out nicely and the riding is good - come under that umbrella? I wouldn't consider it the same as riding into the ring with say, a western saddle. Rather just a personal choice (that I also wouldn't consider outrageous, ie pink glitter stars stencilled on the rump). Would it really be that looked down upon in your area? Even at a low level?
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