Do You Ride Horses? V.4

[xChry.]

Hey everybody! Small rant.
I recently bought a nice, older connie combs barrel saddle from a swap n shop group off facebook. I received the saddle and the front end is coming apart, theres damage to the horn, and its not a 7" gullet like I was told. SUPER STEAMED! Anyway, Im sending it to be fixed so I can re-sell since it was originally for beauty, and she's passed. Plus it wont fit anybody here anyway. Youd think out of the 15+ riding horses we have.. Nope.. Oh well.

[Albino_]

@:toucan:
I do work at a barn and I will for sure get pictures when they arrive!

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Well I just found out my boss ended up making plans for a cart riding thing though a group on Facebook. So big horses and miniature horses are gonna be going on the trails while carting haha. So I get to be around many horses! I will take pictures when the time comes! Saturday come fast!! Haha

[*Shiveren*]

Hi al! I'm an Eventer looking for some Cross country colours! Post some unique/ your favourite colour combinations below!

@Soul Of Winter Aaaa, how cool!
@xChry. That sucks! Good luck finding a saddle!
@∠(ᐛ 」∠)_ Those are some nice horses <3

[Nocte Luna]

@Soul of Winter
Congratulations! That sounds wonderful! Let us know how it goes and if you get pictures, feel free to share!

@RunningRace
In addition to stretching on the ground, do exercises to bend more. Circles, serpentines, etc, will all help. Do at least 2 circles each pace, ideally one circle at each end of the arena. Even when changing directions, do it on a circle so then you can bend more.

@sleepypony
Good to hear that Jack's doing okay and that your saddle search is going well!

@∠(ᐛ 」∠)_
Wow, gorgeous horses, thanks for the pictures!

@xChry.
That's unfortunate. Have you tried asking the seller for some of the money back? Unless they directly stated that the saddle was in such poor condition, they should be able to give you a refund.

@*Shiveren*
Good combinations? Hmm, not sure what you're into color wise/what color your horse is (which can help determine what colors look good) but I'd say start with a neutral color (grey, white, black) then add another color that looks good on your horse. If you ever want to talk more about good colors, let me know, I love equestrian fashion/horse color coordination, so hopefully I can help you out!

@Mini debate
Thanks to all who have responded so far, it seems pretty unanimous that you all use the hard brush on your horse's legs if there's a lot of dirt. I'll keep this topic up for a couple more days then I'll post a new one. It's really interesting to hear all your opinions. To all who still want to respond but didn't see the topic, I was asking if you use the hard brush on your horse's legs when grooming, and if not, why?

@My equine lifestyle (it's no longer just riding at this point, haha)

-Teaching: I now teach 4 more lead line lessons. 0.0. They needed me to sub for someone yesterday for an 11:30 lesson (so basically, I have my lesson, then go straight to teaching) and afterwards, M told me I should just take over, considering those who usually teach that student tend to switch off or not be there, where as I'm there every week. On top of that, they have 3 lead lines Sunday that need to be taught, so I now will be going Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday, and teaching all 3 days. Unfortunately, I'm going to have to give up Thursdays fairly soon, due to schedule craziness that starts in two weeks and ends 4 weeks after that. But then it'll almost be summertime anyways.

-Riding: Rode Pete for my lesson and Gabby to exercise her. Pete was good, though I keep getting ahead or left behind. Watching the videos that I have of the lesson, I look awful when I get left behind. I feel myself getting left behind and I just throw my hands forward. It looks so bad. We did a whole course, but I trotted everything, because I'm still not comfortable with cantering Pete to jumps. I also have video of me cantering Gabby, so maybe I'll end up sharing that one. I think it's okay. My leg could be a little stronger, but it's overall okay.

-Working student stuff: We were looking for new stirrup leathers for a school horse saddle, and we found everything but the leathers. Oh well. We also had fun jumping all the jumps and seeing how high I could jump. It was so much fun. Unfortunately, our jumping time will have to end. We've got a new group of 18 park district kids coming in 2 weeks, which will once again consume almost all of our time.

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@Mini Debate
Yeah, I always use the hardbrush on my horses legs because she us to loves to get muddy haha

@Horse Update
Super big update for me. So I don't own any horses of my own but I lease here and there and I'm helping a friend train her horse. Her horse is technically trained but she's super stubborn and just got rid of her foal (for weening) a couple of months ago. Anyway, the bug thing is that she jumped without a hitch yesterday! Usually when we just try a tiny cavaletti she gets super happy and head strong and bucks around, but yesterday we jumped a small course and she was UH-MAZE-ING

[Mercury.Muses]

@∠(ᐛ 」∠)_
" I want 10." Don't we all xD.


@ *Shiveren*
I don't do eventing, but I am in an art class so I love color combinations! ^_^ You said post so I'm thinking you might've meant pictures but xDD
Any light earthy tones usually tend to look good together, greens, browns, greys, light blues, possibly even light oranges & purples depending which way you swing on the color wheel- hot or cool.

For bold looks, you could always go with contrasting colors, yellow/purple orange/blue green/red or even mix it up a bit so you have colors like blue/red where it's still hot and cool.

Black usually looks good with mostly every color too.

I also enjoy different shades of colors, so gradients are nice, like a bright red w/ a dark maroon red or a light blue w/ a very vibrant blue and then a dark one.

Red & purple also look well together ouo.

woops, I rambled, xD I'm not even sure if this helps you or not, but I hope it does! <o<


@ Mini debate
I don't typically brush off Sugar's legs- unless they are really dirty- but where I live, it's a lot of dust with little rain so it's not often that she ends up dirty, just really dusty.

@Update for me

Went yesterday, and I mucked out my stall, which I think I am taking pretty good care of 8), then did all the horses' waters and fed the ones my trainer feeds, and mucked out two other stalls. I felt so accomplished xD. My trainer also got every single pile along section A and B (those two are hers) cleaned up and had her husband use the tractor to go dump it all in the dumpsters.

So tonight, I wasn't planning on going riding because of the walking dead marathon, but I am, luckily TWD isn't on until 10 pm here and I'm going at 4/5ish so I'll be able to get home in time. I'll probably ride with the bareback pad again, and I finally got an SD card for my camera so *hopefully* I'll be able to get a couple of videos and pictures of sugar.

[trees |-/]

@ anyone!
question, do you guys spend more time warming up then actually 'riding'?? i lunge my horse for 15 minutes or go on a walk trail ride before i actually do some dressage or jumping.

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@Palomino.
I usually do a walk, trot, canter warmup for 15 to 20 minutes, and then I do dressage or jumping :3

[jingle bells.]

@ anyone!
question, do you guys spend more time warming up then actually 'riding'?? i lunge my horse for 15 minutes or go on a walk trail ride before i actually do some dressage or jumping.

My trainer usual has us walk around for about 10 minutes, then trot for a good while, warm up in the canter, do a couple warm up jumps, and lastly do our courses and other work.

[Lady_Lycana]

Those stinking coyotes got Lemon's foal last night. This sucks