Lets see your... Racehorses to dressage horses!

Pigeon

Pigeon

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Because I'm currently trying to do this, and love to see before & after pics :)

Here's my little dude:

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I think you've seen this pic before but it's the only real 'before' pic I've got, no ridden ones I'm afraid.
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Then this is from a month ago at her first combined training comp (6 months after other pic)
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And because I'm hoping she'll be an eventer rather than a dressage horse...
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Ahh this thread is a great idea! I am still in the before stage with baby tb with god awful feet so hopefully will have an after next year :)
 
Just because I love putting photos up of her

before
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and the last time i rode her

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after pictures due sometime in early 2014 ;)
 
Pigeon said:
Because I'm currently trying to do this, and love to see before & after pics :)
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Wow!!! What are your secrets?! I'm currently trying to work on getting muscle back on my TB after a long period of box rest and don't really know where to start!
 
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October 2009, first ride together and his first time not hacking/ in race training.

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April 2013...

All done by the person in the photos, she's 15 in the first one and just turned 19 in the second. He raced (hurdles/ p2p) from 3-8, and she got him when he was 9- he'd spent the year chilling in a field recovering from an injury.
 
JillA said:
Pigeon I love your pics - are the ones in your sig the same horse as the ones you have just posted?
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Yep same horse :) His summer coat is much brighter than his winter one!!

Thanks guys!

Amazing transformations, and it's so rewarding!! Further convinces me that thoroughbreds are just the best :D
 
Pigeon said:
Do people find that judges seem to like tbs?
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When Reg goes correctly, judges do like him- he's not an extravangent mover by any means, but now he's really got going and is going soft and supple judges give him good marks. They LOVED Al's little mare, who just pushed all the right buttons with her huge paces and really neat and correct way of going. Even when she was resisting in places and being a bit mare-ish, she would get 65%+, which is good going for a baby.

We've not come across a judge who doesn't like TBs, I don't think. Just ones who correctly penalise tense tests... Sometimes he loses out because he does tend to go a bit like a sewing machine if he' not quite 'there' but that's understandable!
 
Pigeon said:
Do people find that judges seem to like tbs?
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no
judges either highly mark extravagant but tense tests - quite often warmbloods
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highly mark a correct by more 'orderinary' test - your more *normal* horse - possibly something with tb blood

a judge should not preferance any horse - but im sure if we were marking we would all like something more than something else!
 
This is my TB early on in his (but mainly my!) education -









And more recently (last ones are from this week, age 18)










I wouldn't go as far as saying he is a dressage horse but he has learnt how to go 'nicely' and I'm sure with a better rider would have done dressage quite successfully.
 
No after photo's as of yet as I've only recently bought my little 3 year old ex racer.. He came out of racing over Easter after 4 runs and being too slow and this was my 2nd time riding him in my paddock...

He's an absolute sweetheart & I cannot wait now until he is old enough to do a bit more and go out and compete next year!! I'm really hoping he will prefer strutting his stuff in the white boards than the starting stallls!! :)

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Fig Jan 2011:




Fig now:






Don't have access to any early pics of CS, but this is him looking and working his best:







We keep our fb page really up to dates in terms of schooling, shows and pics of the boys at home :)
 
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I am so impressed with these pics its fantastic and really inspiring :D I have a cracking 'before' pic but as he is still in the 'before' stage I will hold onto it and post an 'after' pic as well in a few months ... And I cant wait (hopefully) for your reaction as I think my new boy is gona be pretty impressive ... Even if it will be my riding that lets him down :o :p
 
I don't have any before photos, but these are me on three ex-racers
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Blue a week after coming out of training


One I reschooled for the owners about three weeks after coming away from training yard
 
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