Equi-shine Horsemanship: New year Plans

Quote of the day.

Pounding hooves, tossing mane,Take me swiftly on my life's journey.Loyal friend, carry me to a place of safety.Lift me over the obstacles of my path

It's not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

Paul "Bear" Bryant

"There is something about jumping a horse over a fence,somethingthat makes you feel good. perhaps it is the risk,or the gamble. In any event it is a thing I need."

W. Faulkner

"Never let fear and commonsense hold you back!"

Loren

"Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and, once it has done so, he will have to accept that his life will be radically changed."

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A horse is 'disobedient' in exact proportion to how difficult he finds the task. The trainer's problem is not how to punish the 'disobedience' but to discover *why* the horse finds the task difficult!" --William Hillebrand

"Riding is a dance between horse and rider, the less the rider does the more beatiful the dance"

JackRabbit

Storms make oaks take deepr root...
So remeber when your horse gives you a hard day it just makes the good days even better, without a negative a postive would not exsist.

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”

"Brutality begins where knowledge ends. Ignorance and compulsion appear simultaneously."

" No heaven will not ever be heaven ; Unless my horses are there to welcome me.''

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

New year Plans

We if you are like me I love Christmas but now it is almost here and everything is done. Its time to think of show season next year. I even took my bridles home to clean then today. January to me is the time to start preparing a little bit more aggressively. So that means tune up existing training and start working on the new stuff. I like to go back to basics then layer on the new so the horse doesn't get frustrated or me for that matter.Unique will go to a a three day event this year.. our first. So that should be interesting then the rest of the season will be spent at the dressage shows.The first thing I need to work on is conditioning so take advantage of the snow if you can and go for a short trot out in the deep snow it does wonders for the legs and really helps the hind end get in gear. To get out your journal write do you progress it really helps to be able to go back to last years notes and see how much they have improved.What was hard then is easy for them now it gives you a solid jump off point to go by, and helps you find a plan that is going to help your horse learn the fastest.