ester
Not slacking multitasking
Fwiw it's worth I wasn't considering actual/near collisions more the effect something having issues can have on others in the vicinity.
Fwiw it's worth I wasn't considering actual/near collisions more the effect something having issues can have on others in the vicinity.
I'm glad you like the name. Sorry Princess, but I don't think am apology is warranted. You had a horse with what read on your posts to me like a morbid fear of tractors. And you consistently took him to high class venues where you could have come across a tractor at any time. The venue you were at has told me that they have you a five minute warning, but it's your word against theirs, so we'll never know the truth of that one. It matters little, anyway, in venues the size that you go to there will always be heavy machinery around, and it really does read to me as if you have different expectations of other people's abilities to control their horses than your own. The fact that he escaped you while you were leading him and ran into a passing ridden stallion shows me, no matter how close to you the tractor was, seems to indicate that.
I've never seen anyone at a competition who was competing in an Intro class cause the slightest problem to anyone else. I think your desire to prevent those people having fun is sad, and thankfully I don't think it will ever happen, because venues need the money.
I think you are very brave, with a two year old to start, to be posting on record that any amount of preparation can stop a young horse at his first real party from misbehaving!
im not sure where i actually said that CPT?! in fact i actually said the opposite-that im sure he WILL make me wince....yep just checked and thats what i said....
......what i also said was that i personally dont think intro classes contribute much to the general standard of dressage and that people shouldnt go out in public before they can canter safely, in balance, and without being scared to the point of not being in complete control.
i also said that in my opinion correct preparation includes multiple arena hires.
i also said that i will have done multiple arena hires and thus will feel as well prepped as i can when i take Goofs out
although all that said i kind of hope he plods round like a donkey, ill get you a lovely pic, just for you CPT, howza bout it?
you are very good at twisting the truth,i need a gold star emoji...........
I apologise for making this personal, but I don't really see any other way I could have pointed out the unfairness of PS suggesting that Intro riders are causing problems for other riders?
If you check back, although, no names were named, it was pretty derogatory stuff.
It was basically telling the OP that she shouldn't even have been there, never mind been mildly annoyed by a pot hunter.
i
and if you can do it in the warm up you can defs do it in the ring.
you may not be able to do it well, and indeed no one can do it perfectly...........but if you can(physically) canter a circle in the warm up you can (physicallyridenter a circle in the ring, as can the horse.
i wouldnt over complicate it or you (generic) run the risk of making it a bigger issue than it needs to be.
IMO the only way a horse can learn to deal with a situation where another horse is having a wobbler, is to be in that situation. For most people, the only way they are going to be in that situation is if they are at a show, or one sort or another.
When I started taking my mare out to shows, she would be horribly distracted by other horses around. But because we kept going out, and just got on with what we needed to do, she learned to concentrate on me, rather than other horses. I am sure that some people have horses who are more focused on their riders then mine is, but the only thing that was going to help my mare was keep going out to shows
i tend to agree with susie (albeit this is a different topic really and a bit of a tangent.....)
i cant get too worked up -see my earlier point re rules is rules, get a grip...............BUT if you cant canter, should you really be at a show? for whatever reason that may be, are you really competent and is the horse really on the aids enough to be in a busy public warm up, if it cant even canter a flipping 20m circle?!
really?
3yo under saddle tests for mare and stallion grading have canter in them..................
if intro tests were abolished i think general standards would rise albeit then you would only have the whingers and the whiners moaning that so and so used the prelim as a warm up.....!
I am afraid I have to agree with this.
My horse had canter issues up until this year, and I wouldn't have even thought about bothering taking her to a competition.
I don't always do so well with standing still either so removing halt would be just great too
Personally I would like to see fly leaping included at all levels
I'd quite like 'wiggle down the centre line and come to a halt with bum poking to the side.'
Maybe we should develop a new type of freestyle dressage.
OK let's go for our prefect test. Copy and Paste to add your next move, folks, and see what we get.
1. Enter at A and wiggle down the centre line.
2. Halt at G with bum squished out to one side.
3. Move off as if stung by a bee, stop and stare in amazement at the judge's hair color, turn right.
Over to you! Remember this is a walk and canter only test.