Section Ds for dressage?

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How suited/easy to do are they for dressge? Anyone do a bit with theirs? links to pics would be nice
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, im looking a getting one, only novice dressage really, but i do enjoy it
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and they have a beautiful movement......
 
There is a mother and daughter combination near us who compete their home breds and they are wonderful. I think the daughter was the Elem Winter Restricted Champion, so they can certainly do dressage!!!!!
 
ester does dressage with Frankie! I try to do dressage with Genie, but she's a bit over enthusiastic... Our walk and trot work is great, but the canter is entertaining...
 
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We dont do dressage but our horses could proberly do it if they tried lol....

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ooh they look truly lovley

on an un-related point - you can tell those shows are in Wales ! ahh the mud ! lol
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ester here, will try find some pics for you but struggling with photbucket atm! if not might find some links!

Frank hadn't ever done dressage till I got him at 12, and when he was stopping jumping I decided he needed to do something else for a bit. Started taking it a bit more seriously about 18 months ago and now he is pretty established at novice level.

there is the odd judge that finds him hard to judge but most think he is fab (I think we get extra points for cuteness) and he is very good at smiling at judges.

We pretty much get 70% for prelims we do now, 65 for novices and we have done the odd elem unaff for fun, don't score great but he likes having a go at the more complicated stuff!
We qual for the RC national dressage to music champs this year at novice with 72% test, and were 7th at our area prelims in January.

He doesn't have typical welsh movement though ie his trot is quite normal!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdletwaThZo

I like this one a lot, I don't know him though!

Only thing to note if you are thinking about buying one is they can have attitude and be spooky, 95% of the time any small child could ride Frank, 5% of the time he is an arse and can be sharp though he is generally quite lazy and laid back, it is sometimes like having 2 ponies!
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I have 'half a D' and he competes at affiliated Novice.

Will post pics if you want but didn't like to as:
a) I post far too many of him
b) he's not all welsh!

Extension is jaw dropping, collection is as good as most.
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ooh okay thank-you, im happy that the breed could work for what i want to do then
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+ a bit of jumping
as for temprament - whether i get on with the one im going to see will be decied on his temprament being good. Iv had enough of persistantly grumpy geldings and moody mares !!
 
Three didn't realise your boy was part welsh, pics please cos I like seeing pics of him!

Deefa, Frank had always jumped before I got him, we still do lots of jumping too, we get withdrawl symptoms if we don't ! Dressage is ok in small doses.
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ooh, hes lovley Ester, the extension on them just has me in awe! hes a gorgeous colour liver chestnut is by far my most favorite colour, i had a beautiful Welsh B for a time of the same colour, the one im going to look at is a bright chestnut
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thank-you for all your advice
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They are usually very versatile so i would have thought that they would be great for dressage i am hoping to do dressage with my 2 year old when hes older but imagine hes going to be more of a jumper if his temperaments anything to go by, hes not at all spooky and hes only 2 but the breed is known to be quite spooky i have a 13 year old welsh who spooks at his own shadow,
 
mine isn't much good in the show ring but is really doing well in his dressage - TBH we enjoy dressage, much more civilized, god only knows what show judges are looking for????? It's probably because my boy goes free n easy in a snaffle and doesn't have his nose tied to his chest.....but dressage judges always remark on his even rhythym and his overtrack!! He should be able to work upto medium level comfortably (more than high enough for me!!) so we are gonna have some fun playing dressage!!
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Can a welshie do dressage? Absolutely, what they lack in off the floor paces they make up for tenfold in trainability and wanting to please, mine will do anything when he's got the hang of it, he's so enthusiastic, his canter was pretty dire until we learnt changes, now we have a great canter, ok trot, amazing medium trot but a pathetic welsh walk, but Im working on it, he's only 19 so still time to learn!
 
There's a lovely Welsh D at my riding school whose owner (my RI) used to use him for Grand Prix dressage. He can do it all! Although now he is old and lazy and can't even be bothered to work in an outline... he's grown too used to carting around novices like me! Once someone who knows what they're doing gets on him, he's still got it.
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Can a welshie do dressage? Absolutely, what they lack in off the floor paces they make up for tenfold in trainability and wanting to please, mine will do anything when he's got the hang of it, he's so enthusiastic, his canter was pretty dire until we learnt changes, now we have a great canter, ok trot, amazing medium trot but a pathetic welsh walk, but Im working on it, he's only 19 so still time to learn!

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am pleased someone else has issue with walk, walk apparently is a resting pace!
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They tend to have a fabulous natural trot but an utterly atrocious canter. Just a warning.
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I say this as the owner of a fat stubborn Sec D who is damn near unable to canter a circle without 'motorbiking' but can for some reason do changes every other stride, and is not far off proper flying changes. No, I have no idea how or why either.
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