Kayty

hey how are you whats diong

This might be a bit off topic (not that there is a topic) but do you have a webpage on horse channel.com and aren't you horse of the day today?

Hey how are you going ?

Hey how are you? long time no speak

Kayty,
It just dawned on me that I should ask you another question. What should I be working on to do beginner novice eventing for the dressage portion? It seems simple, and I gather that I should be working on transitions, keeping the gaits the same pace, making sure to bend through corners, and being as seamless as possible. Is there anything else I should try? No dressage instructors in my area...my coach is h/j but knows a bit about dressage.

Kayty,
Thanks for your reply! I have an instructor but she's more hunter/jumper than dressage. We practice shoulder ins and outs a lot in lessons, sometimes do circles, that stuff, but Casper doesn't even know what a should in is! Okay, so let's make sure I'm right about this:
On a 20 meter circle, ask him to leg-yield to the outside and with my inside leg, "push" him into my outside rein for just a few good steps until he starts to build strength and understand the concept. What should my inside rein be doing? And my outside leg would, on a horse who understood lateral work, act as a regulator right? If he started moving too much to the sideways, the outside leg would keep him in between my legs type of thing?

I'e only really read about dressage and have about 0 experience with it.

Hi Kayty,

In my starting eventing thread, some of the eventers there recommended talking to you about dressage. I'll just be doing beginner novice, but my horse really likes to cut corners and isn't responsive when I ask him to move laterally. What are some exercises I can do to help supple him and get him to respond better to my leg - he's great at moving forward, just not sideways.

Seriously...If I ever make it to Australia will you give a lesson????? Even though I'm a hunter/jumper rider?!!! ( I have family in Sydney-ish...anywhere near there?)

Hi Kayty,

Interested in your opinion of the McLean's, since you 'liked' my post?

Read heaps of Andrew's philosophy & thought I'd done my research well enough when I decided it was the place to send my green horse. After only a week i visited him... & took him home amid tears! The man(Warwick) accused me of lying that the horse had any prior training at all(I had been up to taking him out & about on trail rides when I got pregnant). At the paddock, he ran to the far side & stood shaking. Took me a while to get near him(he had always come when called!). He had a halter left on him that had rubbed his nose raw, was headshy and had sores in the corners of his mouth from a bit(they'd assured me they wouldn't use one because I hadn't started him that way). He was reactive on the ground, but almost 'mechanical' to ride... Years later he's still got a few 'hangups' from the experience!

Who's the horse in your avatar?

JustImage, I've already told you that I have not meant offence in the slightest. If you are so sensitive that you cannot even take any advice (which by the way, has cost me upwards of $20,000.00 in...

As soon as I read the title 'head set' I cringed ;) If you want to do Dressage with this horse, throw away the concept of a 'headset' and think more about him being a fish, and you are the net....

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Easy and dressage exercises is like comparing apples and oranges. Dressage is hard work, not a bunch of cool circus tricks. Your post says clearly to me that you do not have much experience. Right...

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If you haven't seen a horse comfortable in them, then why continue using them? Correct training is what develops and enhances a horse's natural abilities, as well as turning their weaknesses into...

If you haven't seen a horse comfortable in them, then why continue using them? Correct training is what develops and enhances a horse's natural abilities, as well as turning their weaknesses into...

If you haven't seen a horse comfortable in them, then why continue using them? Correct training is what develops and enhances a horse's natural abilities, as well as turning their weaknesses into...

If you haven't seen a horse comfortable in them, then why continue using them? Correct training is what develops and enhances a horse's natural abilities, as well as turning their weaknesses into...

Good luck with the Innova, I know a couple of people that loves theirs with standard blocks. Personally I can't stand any saddle that forces you into a position, you need to be able to move unless...

Good luck with the Innova, I know a couple of people that loves theirs with standard blocks. Personally I can't stand any saddle that forces you into a position, you need to be able to move unless...

Shoulder in is harder than haunches in, because horses find it very easy to go crooked in haunches in. They can have their weight over their forehands and perform the movement but not the exercise,...

Shoulder in is harder than haunches in, because horses find it very easy to go crooked in haunches in. They can have their weight over their forehands and perform the movement but not the exercise,...

Shoulder in is harder than haunches in, because horses find it very easy to go crooked in haunches in. They can have their weight over their forehands and perform the movement but not the exercise,...

Easy and dressage exercises is like comparing apples and oranges. Dressage is hard work, not a bunch of cool circus tricks. Your post says clearly to me that you do not have much experience. Right...