Introducing Lindeza (lin-day-za)

GinaGeo said:
It sounds like you’re heading in the right direction, pleased to hear you’re getting her management sussed ?

Good doers are hard to manage. Give me a TB I can chuck food down any day!
Click to expand...


Give me Ludo and I'll pay twice what it's worth ?

A good doer, who stops eating when he's had enough. Who wouldn't pay extra for that?
 
ycbm said:
Give me Ludo and I'll pay twice what it's worth ?

A good doer, who stops eating when he's had enough. Who wouldn't pay extra for that?
Click to expand...

To be fair that’s my WelshxTb and Anglo Arab. They don’t need feeding up but they don’t gorge. I agree that’s perfect!

The Connemara however never comes up for air ?
 
ycbm said:
The jury is certainly still out M, much like you and Bear, which I totally get. She hasn't grabbed a place in my heart and if someone was to make me a big enough offer for her I would part with her with a clear conscience. Though I'm also relieved to feel that there is no need to change anything now until the spring.
.
Click to expand...

Oh Bear has totally grabbed my heart really, I love the furry twit.

That said if he’s anything other than a straight forward, confidence giving jumper when the time comes for him to learn- he will lose his place quite quickly ;) so I guess it’s not true love.

She may surprise you over time but if not you got your Spanish fix and there will be another out there.
 
I would love an easy keeper that will eat anything you throw at it. Gypsum has decided the only thing she fancies is oats and competition mix, like an old lady who's decided all she wants is fish and chips and MacDonald's. And she's 27 and not an easy keeper, so I have to give her anything she will actually eat.
 
Things are nicely settled here but I'm fed up with cold wet forage and dreading ice! So I've ordered Timothy haylage, which should be here soon, and I'm going to try to swap her to that.

I've been able to drop my stirrups a hole to where I would normally ride. I always start a youngster with them shorter but when she got fat I couldn't drop them. The weight loss has made riding her a lot easier.

And this week I had a lesson with the instructor I go to with Ludo. She isn't a Spanish horse lover, but we had a real fun time. We have decided that Deza isn't going to settle to doing long and low 20m circles and she should get stuck straight in to more advanced work. We even did some half pass, counter canter and pre-piaffe tiny trot. She's going to find flying changes and piaffe a piece of cake. I did some more of it at home today and I have to say I did enjoy myself - a lot!
.
 
ycbm said:
And this week I had a lesson with the instructor I go to with Ludo. She isn't a Spanish horse lover, but we had a real fun time. We have decided that Deza isn't going to settle to doing long and low 20m circles and she should get stuck straight in to more advanced work. We even did some half pass, counter canter and pre-piaffe tiny trot. She's going to find flying changes and piaffe a piece of cake. I did some more of it at home today and I have to say I did enjoy myself - a lot!
.
Click to expand...

this is what I do with mine - he just isn’t suited to the long and low stuff at the start of a session. We warm up with lots of lateral work and then take it up a gear then I ask for some stretching. They aren’t built for long and low so it’s quite hard work for them! Then at the end of the session we play with the piaffe as a reward. So pleased you are getting on better with managing her!
 
ycbm said:
Things are nicely settled here but I'm fed up with cold wet forage and dreading ice! So I've ordered Timothy haylage, which should be here soon, and I'm going to try to swap her to that.

I've been able to drop my stirrups a hole to where I would normally ride. I always start a youngster with them shorter but when she got fat I couldn't drop them. The weight loss has made riding her a lot easier.

And this week I had a lesson with the instructor I go to with Ludo. She isn't a Spanish horse lover, but we had a real fun time. We have decided that Deza isn't going to settle to doing long and low 20m circles and she should get stuck straight in to more advanced work. We even did some half pass, counter canter and pre-piaffe tiny trot. She's going to find flying changes and piaffe a piece of cake. I did some more of it at home today and I have to say I did enjoy myself - a lot!
.
Click to expand...
I may have mentioned the "don't bother trying to make them go long & low" thing....they're not happy doing the opposite of what they are bred to do, which is collect & sit.
 
Errin Paddywack said:
It must be fascinating to have two such opposite types of horse to ride.
Click to expand...

It is! I bought her to have a new experience, and if she stays it will be the reason that I keep her.

Schooling both in one day is a real laugh. I have to unload one operating system and load another before I get on.

They're chalk and cheese to hack, too. On the arena he never bats an eyelid at anything and she has only recently stopped spooking at some jump stands. Out hacking, he is eyes on stalks assessing danger all the time and she is quite calm, especially for a horse who's not been under saddle for many months yet.

I couldn't ask for a better unmatched pair :)
.
 
i find that, different sets of riding required, i do think however its very good for your riding and training skills, opened up a whole new world of how to approach different horses for me, am now riding pre type, arab type, thoroughbred and for the first time cob, god me on a cob? must be getting ready for old age,

its taught me how to listen and connect with the horse i am sitting on, not getting on and being too set in what i intend to do and how i intend to do it, its a very happy feeling

look forwards to more updates
 
Well we (trainer and me) decided to challenge her instead of waiting for her to establish her own balance and 12 days (4 sessions) later I have shoulder in and travers in walk and trot, half pass in walk and a good attempt in trot, shoulder in in canter, counter canter, (flying changes are going to be a cinch), and a working-towards-piaffe trot which is 3 strides to the meter (13 inches to the stride) , and she's stopped rushing.

This is fun :)

She knows before I do if I'm having a tense day and she's very reactive to my seat on any day, but that's making a better rider of me.

Weight wise, I can't believe how much narrower she is now the weight is off, I had no idea she was carrying so much. She's obviously an apple shaped girl who carries it round her middle..

Keep your fingers crossed for me for tomorrow and the next few days. Tonight is her first night on all-timothy haylage which hasn't been soaked. If she can get through without pulses for 48 hours then it will mean a blissful winter of no soaking. That would be my best Christmas present :)
 
Last edited:
ycbm said:
I have shoulder in and travers in walk and trot, half pass in walk and a good attempt in trot, shoulder in in canter, counter canter, (flying changes are going to be a cinch), and a working-towards-piaffe trot which is 3 strides to the meter (13 inches to the stride)
Click to expand...

Yeah - but what do you do after you've warmed up ?
 
She sounds an awful lot of fun!

When I next have a space in the stables and don't want to fill it with an eventer sort, I would secretly quite like to fill it with a PRE. For now I will live vicariously!
 
My PRE has forced me encouraged me to be a much better rider. Even though I got him as a green bean almost 3 years ago now, he has taught me so much. He's a sensitive creature, which I quite like, but I really have to ride with my brain and body.

I thought flying changes would be easy with this one since counter-canter was learned in one lesson and his transitions have always been good, but lets just say there is a lot of "flying" to our changes :p but you'll probably fair better given that although mine is not a mare he is a total drama queen.

Really hoping the best for you with the timothy haylage! I think I will be soaking all winter. Dreading it.

Also, feel free to insert some pics of the lovely lady too :)

Glad to hear things are going well!
 
I think perhaps now you understand all my "Spanish horses aren't for everyone" posts?

They absolutely will make better riders of their owners, and if that's not going to happen with some owners they can turn into a nightmare - for both horse and rider. I had to completely revise/improve my riding and training after I discovered the wonderful world of the PRE, a condition which is ongoing. I hope you enjoy the journey...:D
 
Cortez said:
I think perhaps now you understand all my "Spanish horses aren't for everyone" posts?

They absolutely will make better riders of their owners, and if that's not going to happen with some owners they can turn into a nightmare - for both horse and rider. I had to completely revise/improve my riding and training after I discovered the wonderful world of the PRE, a condition which is ongoing. I hope you enjoy the journey...:D
Click to expand...


?✔
 
Great update. I also had bit of a learning curve when I bought my two year old Lipi cross. I thought I could break horses and ride anything...

Best of luck with the hay. I feel your pain, soaking 12 kg every 24 hours right now with no end in sight.

PS. twenty years later and I still have this horse.
 
No pulse after 48 hours of dry timothy. Yay! So today she got half a day grazing without the muzzle on and see what that does. It really looks likely I can go without soaking now, she would normally react the next day and it's been two. That's made my Christmas! If she can go without a muzzle until spring that would probably make hers :)

She's lost two whole inches off her girth and when she bends I'm getting a hint of ribs visible in her main ribcage area. So although she's a wee bit tricky to feed, needing low fat haylage and then straw to pick at when the haylage is gone, she does lose weight very easily without being ridden that much. My fears that she was going to be very difficult to manage have pretty much been settled.

Had a great lesson today with my trainer who doesn't even like Spanish horses ? She said "she's growing on me", after she saw how improved she was in after just 2 weeks, which is praise indeed. My trainer is very prepared to be unconventional when it suits the horse, and the key to this horse is that she cannot engage her body until after you have engaged her brain. No amount of slow steady work will do that, it just frustrates the hell out of her. So we had a lesson full of shoulder in, travers, half pass, counter canter and then played with a flying change, which she got at the front and late behind, having never been asked to do it before. Such fun!
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top