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I purchased my first saddle completely unsupervised. That is to say, I picked out a saddle from a sales catalog that I could afford and in a shade of brown that I was partial to. I was utterly clueless, and this became the first in a long line of saddles
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Perfecting the Halt and Maximizing Your Score I must confess, I am darn proud of my halts and I think I have earned the right to confess my pride, especially since I’ve worked on them for years. Literally. In fact, I have never dismounted after a ride without asking
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Timing: noun a. placement or occurrence in time b. the ability to select the precise moment for doing something for optimum effect Accuracy: noun a. freedom from mistake or error: the quality or state of being accurate I’ve noticed that riding terms can be vague and allude to ideas
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When life hands you lemons…. As the old adage goes, you are supposed to make lemonade. I can clearly recall the first time I heard this saying. My first, out of the starting gate response was to change the scenario. That’s just how I roll. I remember thinking that
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Sunday Morning Quarterbacking So, as with Monday morning quarterbacking, today is the day to look back on our first schooling show and review where we are and what we’ve learned. This is the very first time Lexi and I have completed an entire cross country course or stadium course
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PRE SEASON TRAINING CAMP Well, here we sit 6 days out from our official debut into the eventing world and I find myself praying that our pre season is not a portend of things to come. Riding between thunder boomers has become the norm here in rainy Florida. If it
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Welcome To The (cough, cough) Masters! - #5 Okay, so what does professional golf and (almost) over the hill eventers have in common? Don’t worry I had no idea either. This weekend my husband was channel diving (surfing invokes pleasurable images) between Nascar, golf, and every single hunting channel
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If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it… This should be the mantra for my budget friendly life both on and off my mare. When I suffered my epiphany and decided to test the waters of eventing once again I was in a quandary. I had a very nice,
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Another one bites the dust sand #6 Yes, it has finally happened. I have officially been re-christened by the jumping gods in the form of a sand bath. I knew this would happen. It was just a matter of time. I must say though, in all fairness, the fault really
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IT’S ALL RELATIVE After several months weeks of intense clinical study I have come to some very interesting conclusions involving my return to eventing. Okay, so maybe I just consulted a few like-minded over forty friends of mine, but either way I found the results to be very consistent.
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Back In The Saddle # 2 Now that I’ve decided to shake things up with my mare the question became who to turn to in order to make the transition back into eventing. My mare has had limited exposure to jumping. Me, I haven’t ridden in a jump saddle
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Back In The Saddle # 1 - Intro I guess Back In The (Jump) Saddle would be more apropos for this blog, but you get the idea. Who am I you may ask? I comprise the largest segment of the eventing industry or base. Actually, if you want to get technical,
