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The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread NINE
See our "who's who" page! ^

Posted on 02/24/2006 9:12:25 AM PST by HairOfTheDog

The FreeRepublic Saddle Club - Who's Who *pics*

This is a horse chat thread where we share ideas, ask for input from other horsemen, and talk about our riding and horse-keeping. We have a lot of different kinds of riders and horses, and a lot to share. In the previous threads we have had a great time talking through lessons, training, horse lamenesses, illnesses and pregnancies... and always sharing pictures and stories.

I always have a link to this thread on my profile page, so if you have something to say and can't find the thread in latest posts… look for it there and wake the thread up!

I also have a ping list for horse threads that are of interest, and MissTargets will now be pinging everyone most mornings. Let MissTargets and/or me know if you would like to be on the ping list. As FreeRepublic is a political site, our politics and other issues will probably blend in…. There are many issues for horsemen that touch politics… land use, animal rights/abuse cases that make the news…. Legislation that might affect horse owners.

So... like the previous threads, this is intended as fun place to come and share stories, pictures, questions and chit-chat, unguided and unmoderated and that we come together here as friends. There are lots of ways of doing things and we all have our quirks, tricks and specialties that are neat to learn about.

Previous threads:

The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread - thread ONE
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread - Thread TWO!
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread - Thread THREE!
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread FOUR
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread FIVE
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread SIX
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread SEVEN
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread EIGHT

New folk and occasional posters, jump right in and introduce yourselves, tell us about your horses, and post pictures if you've got them!


TOPICS: Hobbies; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: ofcourseofcourse; saddleclub; thehorseyset
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To: FrogInABlender
Good morning. Still itching and covered with welts but I'm off today (I work tomorrow) so nobody has to look at me this way :)

Bob is 6'2" and 230lbs, so he makes a lot of horses look real small, but Dusty is small and she was the perfect size for me. Her dam wasn't large, 15.1 although her sire was (he was 16H) but I think her growth was stunted a little. We didn't think she would survive when she was born, very small and skin and bones.

Her heart is 16H though and she's probably the smartest horse I've ever owned. She gets bored easily and the past two-three years of being a lesson horse has about driven her up a wall. She's the one that we have to be very careful with her gates. If she can get out, she will let everyone else out too.

3,881 posted on 04/21/2006 9:36:23 AM PDT by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain

We have two "patience poles". They are poles purchased from the electric company and cut down. They are about 4' in the ground and about 10' above ground. Then old tires are dropped over them all the way up. Bob ties the horses to one of the tires, which will turn so they don't get wrapped around the pole but they can fight it all day and get nowhere. Any horses that we have that are bad about standing tied do time on the patience pole.


3,882 posted on 04/21/2006 9:42:38 AM PDT by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: FrogInABlender

I didn't know this, I am so sorry that happened. What a trumatic event for you and heartbreaking.


3,883 posted on 04/21/2006 9:43:53 AM PDT by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: MissTargets
Good morning.

One more month to go huh? That is just so cool.

3,884 posted on 04/21/2006 9:45:23 AM PDT by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: HairOfTheDog

Thanks. I'll write this post number down so that when I down at Jenny's we can watch it. She liked seeing them too:)

Well all the riding is done for the day. I got Celia to take a few pictures, and I took some of Jenny riding Dot in the arena. She (Dot) seemed a bit stiff at the start. We think it's because she didn't have shoes and is tender. But once she got going she was good.

Pictures loading.

Becky


3,885 posted on 04/21/2006 1:16:38 PM PDT by PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain (Ride a Quarter Horse, it's good for the spirit)
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To: PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain

Ah - good - I'm headed out to mow a bit, but I'll be back in to check :~D


3,886 posted on 04/21/2006 1:19:04 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: Duchess47

I'm very regular about making my horses stand tied. Even horses that are very good, it's a good thing to do with them. Harley almost always stands saddled for anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour before I ride. And lots of times he stands there for awhile after I get back.

It's such a simple thing to do but the benefits are huge, IMO:)


Becky


3,887 posted on 04/21/2006 1:21:56 PM PDT by PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain (Ride a Quarter Horse, it's good for the spirit)
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To: HairOfTheDog; FrogInABlender; Duchess47; tuffydoodle
This one is pretty far off, but we were trying to show the rocks and hill.

Here I am a little further down the hill.

Coming up a hill.

Jenny warming Dot up.

Duchess here is Jenny doing some barrel work:) Jenny did some refresher work on the barrels, never got out of a trot. This picture she could have even just been at a walk I don't remember, but the horse was bending around the barrel real nice.

She is useing the bit I bought while at the clinic last year. Story behind it. She has always used the same bit I was using on Harley, the correction bit. Well I think I told you that Charlie took that bit away from me because he said it was wore smooth out. The edges of where the bit was jointed was so wore that they were sharp. He told Jenny to check hers and I think it was worse then mine. Both Jenny and I never even thought about a bit wearing out, yikes, poor horses. But even tho this bit looks like there is alot to it, it's really a pretty easy bit, and Jenny really like the way the horse gave to it.

Becky

3,888 posted on 04/21/2006 1:35:31 PM PDT by PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain (Ride a Quarter Horse, it's good for the spirit)
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To: FrogInABlender

If it makes you feel any better, Frog, I think that your accent is a hoot! I love it. :-) Mine is kind of generic and ugly at the same time, because it's a Boston accent. Park is "Pahk" Car is "Cah" Beer is "Beeah" I do try to control it, but when I get tired, it comes out blazin' :-p


3,889 posted on 04/21/2006 1:45:56 PM PDT by Beaker
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To: PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain

Terrific pictures :~D Great shot coming up the hill :~D


3,890 posted on 04/21/2006 1:57:28 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain

I don't know about you, but I'd rather go up a long steep hill than down one. Going downhill has never been real comfortable, I always feel like we're topheavy. When I started getting afraid of big jumps it was the long downhill side that scared me, never the takeoff side.


3,891 posted on 04/21/2006 2:09:17 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain
Good pics! Looks like y'all had a productive afternoon. The trees are greening up nicely too. I'd never thought about a bit wearing out either, but when my trainer was training Bob, he had him in a snaffle out on the trail and was trying to get him to stop and it broke clean in two. That left him with just a noseband for control and Bob took off with him through the woods. He did an emergency dismount and got him stopped but if it'd been anybody else, they probably would've gotten hurt. I think he checked the rest of his bits after that. I guess anything that has moving parts could conceivably wear out and it wouldn't hurt to check them once in a while.
3,892 posted on 04/21/2006 2:33:01 PM PDT by FrogInABlender (Never argue with an idiot. People watching may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain

What great pictures. And it's so green there now after all the dry. The horses look great. Dusty wants to trot too close to the barrell in her turn, so that the rider's foot is hitting the barrel.


3,893 posted on 04/21/2006 5:38:44 PM PDT by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: FrogInABlender
Thanks. Dentists are a pain now. I had to go in for an evaluation$$$$ I was refered to an oral surgeon. He did a 5 minute eval and charged me 95 dollars and sent me to a medical doctor for a medical clearance. I'm scheduled for surgery Wednesday. We are not seeing things the same though. He wants to do conscious sedation. I just want some lidocaine. I can spend that extra 300 dollars on something a lot more fun than drugs. My husband just wants me to go to Mexico tomorrow where he goes. I don't know about that though.
3,894 posted on 04/21/2006 6:31:03 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: Duchess47

Try putting tires around the barrel to keep them off of it, and use lots of inside leg.

Becky


3,895 posted on 04/21/2006 6:44:49 PM PDT by PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain (Ride a Quarter Horse, it's good for the spirit)
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To: FrogInABlender

Hey. She looks like me ! :')


3,896 posted on 04/21/2006 6:51:27 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: FrogInABlender

I also don't have an accent lol


3,897 posted on 04/21/2006 6:52:35 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: Duchess47

Sorry to hear you are still having trouble. I wonder what you are allergic to?


3,898 posted on 04/21/2006 6:54:23 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: HairOfTheDog

UUMMMMM, 6 of one and 1/2 dozen of another for me. At a CTR one time an observation was going up a very steep hill and at the top there were several logs to step over. 2 riders before my turn a horse gased out at the top trying to step over one of the logs, and came back down the hill, mostly backwards. It was very scary, the rider came off about 1/2 way down. After that they called the observation off. I was very glad. Even before the wreck I was trying to decide if I was going to do it or not. i was on Belle, and now I would say she wouldn't have any trouble, but then i was still a very nervous rider.

The horse and rider that didn't make it were from TX, and she said they didn't even have small hills to work on. The horse just wasn't use to them at all. Belle was. it was still a scary thing, and I still worry now going up long steep climbs:)

Becky


3,899 posted on 04/21/2006 7:20:30 PM PDT by PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain (Ride a Quarter Horse, it's good for the spirit)
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To: PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain

Do the judges ride the trails out first?


3,900 posted on 04/21/2006 7:26:41 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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