Meet my PRE stallion Sendero

B-B said:
I have a Spanish, my first, and Im finding suppleness over his back to be the biggest issue.

Did have this with Sendero?
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Yes, and I still do. With PRE's having the natural ability to collect and having a high head carriage, they tend to be quite tense in the back.
My solution was (and still is), cavaletti's, long and low and plenty of leg yield.
 
The hat brigade is getting so BORING. it IS personal choice if you do or do not wear a hat. Get over it! if people don't want to they won't regardless of how many people say "pic would look better with a hat on" what a load of rubbish, she doesn't wear one get over it.

OP beautiful pics and lovely to see some variety in his work, looked like he loved the jumping!
 
Stunning horse & very correct, classical rider. You would do very well over here at the annual Spanish championship show held at Hartpury over 2-3 days every July - see the BAPSH website. As well as dressage, including freestyle to music - competing against other PREs, Lusos & related Iberian breeds - you can show him, not only in the stallion classes but also the advanced riding horse class where you can show off all his fancy footwork. Unlike English showing classes where you just ride figures of 8, Iberian riding horse classes in the UK enable riders to demonstrate the correctly executed movements their horse is able to do, with more points awarded for the most difficult movements provided they are correct, as well as points for conformation. The advanced class is for horses which can do advanced dressage movements, some also do high school airs above the ground. It's great fun. There's also a versatility class which includes a jump. The Lusitano Breed show also has dressage & showing classes, some specifically for PREs. Both shows are very friendly, have a great social side too & are a wonderful opportunity to meet other Iberian devotees & their lovely horses.
 
Stunning horse but as one that has suffered a serious head injury for taking just such a silly risk then I can't help but look at the photos and cringe.
Yes it is your own choice and risk but I just hope you dont live to regret being so foolish like I did.

Am very jealous if your horse though stunning is an understatement .
 
Please, please, please just STOP banging on about hats. Please. This post is about a beautiful horse being beautifully ridden, not about bl%*dy hats. You've all made your points, can we please get back to the point?
 
Roxana said:
Yes, and I still do. With PRE's having the natural ability to collect and having a high head carriage, they tend to be quite tense in the back.
My solution was (and still is), cavaletti's, long and low and plenty of leg yield.
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Thanks for your reply.

We are working on the long and low (though quite round) and LY, but we do need to do more cavaletti (thanks for reminder :) ). Im guessing that you do these raised?
 
Cortez said:
Please, please, please just STOP banging on about hats. Please. This post is about a beautiful horse being beautifully ridden, not about bl%*dy hats. You've all made your points, can we please get back to the point?
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What with free speech and all, anyone is entitled to bang on about anything they choose. By posting pics riding hatless the OP invited people to comment on THAT just as much as the beauty of her horse.
 
B-B said:
Thanks for your reply.

We are working on the long and low (though quite round) and LY, but we do need to do more cavaletti (thanks for reminder :) ). Im guessing that you do these raised?
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Yup, raised it the best. And jumping low fences also helps.;)
 
midi said:
ugh why do people always feel they have to comment and be snide when people aren't wearing a hat, I'm sure the rider is intelligent enough to know the risks and make their own choices - isn't anyone elses business.
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First of all, stunning horse, I love this type, he's a credit to you, and you are very, very lucky.

Secondly, of course its our bloody business. We are most of us tax payers, which finances the NHS, where the idiots who dont wear hats when riding end up being treated FOR FREE when they fall off and crack their sculls and spilll their brains.

Sorry, OP, please be aware if you post on a forum like this in the UK, you will get pilloried for not wearing a hat. However, apologies for any offence caused, as said above, lovely horse.
 
Horse and rider looks fab, absolutely stunning, not concerned about the lack of hat at all.

Lots of other burdens on our welfare state besides hatless riders, are all this posters who criticise really able to say they are blameless in ever contributing or potentially contributing to this burden.....?

The poster is based in Holland, so not a concern for our welfare state anyway. ;)
 
MrsMozartletoe said:
Post on a public forum, accept that there will possibly be comments one doesn't like or agree with :D
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As a long time lurker of this forum before joining up I have read many posts on here and of your posts. You also post publicly and very often demand no-one should make a comment on your daughters riding etc. Surely when posting publicly people are at their own right to comment or not, so out of courtesy they do not - if they were to comment I'm fairly sure you would not like it at all and would be the first to say so.

So why is it when Roxana posts something like "It is my choice. Thank you" you do not just leave her alone? To me it seems a very much closing statement so why not just leave it?

I understand the views in general people have on hats or not but surely if the OP decides not to wear one sniping on the forum will make little difference?

People do not post on every single thread about someone jumping that they are lacking in wearing a backprotector - imo a piece of equipment that can just as easily prevent major damage. As damage to your spinal cord has the potential of being as serious as to your brain.
 
BooM - there is a huge difference between posting pictures of yourself and someone else! MrsM often posts pictures of herself and is happy for any crit :rolleyes:
 
Wow BooM. You're a happy soul :D

I don't 'demand', I ask that people remember that she is a teenager trying her best. If she was doing something that others considered dangerous then I fully expect that they would pipe up irrespective of what I say, it is, after all as you quite rightly point out, a public forum :D. There have been negative comments and I have no doubt handled them to the best of my ability at the time.

I don't remember responding again to the OP after that post, but I'm sure you'll let me know :D; I have responded to others' comments regarding the non-hat wearing issue, but not all of them I don't think, I haven't kept that close an eye on proceedings.

It's posts like this that keep popping up that keep pulling it into the non-hat wearing arena. I made my comments, including compliments on the beauty of the horse and the elegance of the rider. I responded to two or three comments that I believed were directed at me either wholly or partially, but other than that I have left the thread alone.

As someone who has had brain damage, and that was with a hat on, and nearly closing a close friend, I have my view and nothing will change it.

So a Happy New Year to you, and to keep you happy, put me UI :D
 
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Sorry BooM, I've just read your post again.

You're very right, there should be more awareness of the BP wearing, or the lack of it, though I think it's on the increase from what I've seen.

I have to admit to getting very tired of harping, so I am guilty of not going at everyone for every safety issue.

I look at it from the fairly unique standpoint of having had a bleed on the brain and a broken back (only fallen off twice in two years, do it in poor style :eek::rolleyes:). No hat and I would have died; no BP and I would have been paralysed. Out of the two and the complications and issues that followed both accidents, it is the head injury that I would give my eye teeth to have never had happen. The things that you don't know you're going through, that you don't know you're putting family and friend's through. It is pants.

I would love to ride without a hat again as I did as a child, feel the wind in my hair, but how could I face my family and friends if I were to do that and had a third silly accident? I put this bit in to show that I understand the pleasure of riding hatless, BP-less, but this is a dangerous sport that we do and is it not up us to make it as safe as we can?

If the OP had posted a picture of just the horse, or without her upper body, or with a hat on, then my initial post would have been how lovely the horse is and how elegant the rider appeared (from what could be seen), but it was the entire picture, so the entire picture was commented on.

Sorry. I seem to have gone on. I didn't mean to. Tired.

I'll bow out of the thread now.
 
Roxana said:
It's.my.own.choice.

Thank you.
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I don't really want to get into a huge hat debate either, it has been done to death on here, and I know people won't change their opinion just by some people on a forum. However, could I ask, why? I mean, saying its personal choice is not really a reason? What is the actual reason behind it? I won't judge you either way :D It is just something that intrigues me

Goes without saying, gorgeous horse of course.
 
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