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Tucker the Wunderkind | From Hunters to Dressage: Suddenly Farm ESDCTA/ECRDA Horse Show

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Monday, July 27, 2015. Suddenly Farm ESDCTA/ECRDA Horse Show. So I headed to the outdoor, checked Equitests one more time to make sure I knew what letter the 15m canter circles are at, and I was ready and trotting around the outer edge of the arena as soon as the rider before me did her final salute. This time I will not be caught off guard with an early bell! So let's talk about what went right! And I even touched him with my whip in the right-to-left and he didn't have a melt down. His trot lengthe...

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Tucker the Wunderkind | From Hunters to Dressage: Let's Talk Geometry

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Wednesday, July 22, 2015. Basically, at my level at least, geometry in dressage means the circles are the right size and shape, your corners are corners, and your half circles are half circles. I'm focusing on training and first levels here, because those are the tests I know. If you need help on second level stuff and above, well this is definitely not the blogger you should be asking. Because I'm an American dammit. 20 Meter Circles (Training Level and First Level). For the 1-3 test, the 15 meter cante...

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Tucker the Wunderkind | From Hunters to Dressage: June 2015

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Friday, June 26, 2015. Same-Sex Marriage is Protected by 14th Amendment! I know this is a non-sequitur among my usual equine-related ramblings, but today is SUCH an important day in the law that really if I didn't recognize today's decision here on the blog, I should get my J.D. revoked. It's sort of amazing that this happened during my legal career. Law students will be reading this decision for the rest of all time in their Constitutional Law and Family Law classes. To same-sex marriages. First. Marria...

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Tucker the Wunderkind | From Hunters to Dressage: March 2015

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Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Sunday Fun-day Trail Ride. On Sunday, Ethan and I brought Mooch over to Riverview and met up with two of the lovely ladies from my barn, and we went for a sunny trail ride with Goose, Tucker, and Wally, and Mooch. New Jersey is not quite green and springlike yet, but it was so, so nice to be out in the open with the horses, feeling the sunshine, smelling the fresh air, and seeing the big expanse of blue sky above. Ethan and Mooch through Tucker's ears! That you do this:. You have...

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Tucker the Wunderkind | From Hunters to Dressage: November 2013

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Thursday, November 14, 2013. Tucker the Dressage Pony. Some photos and video from my dressage clinic with Pierre St. Jacques at CLR Stables last weekend! I think Tucker's dressage work is really coming along well, if I do say so myself. Still lots to work on, mostly me. But I see signs of progress and I'll take it! Turns out I stick out my tongue to do leg yields? One of the lesser known lateral aids? Love this one of him (don't look at me and my caved-in core). Look how nicely he's sitting! Thankfully, ...

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Tucker the Wunderkind | From Hunters to Dressage: May 2013

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Saturday, May 25, 2013. This is a Test. Repeat, This is Only a Test. There comes a time in every equine's life when he wonders to himself, just how prepared are my humans in the event of an emergency? Would they know what to do? Will they perform under pressure? At such a time, a horse has no choice but to perform a test of the Equine Emergency Broadcast System. Signs of distress: he pawed, he kicked his stomach, he swished his tail, he rolled, and refused to eat his hay. What are horsey friends for?

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Tucker the Wunderkind | From Hunters to Dressage: Tucker, aka Moon River, aka the Wunderkind

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Tucker, aka Moon River, aka the Wunderkind. 8212; n, pl -kinds, -kinder. 1 a child prodigy. 2 a person who is exceptionally successful in his field while still young. Tucker is a 12 year old Dutch Warmblood gelding that I've had since he was about 5 months old (though I've known him his whole life). I met Tucker back in 2002, when I had just graduated college and was working at Cedar Brook Farm. Moon River, wider than a mile,. I'm crossing you in style some day. Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker,. HITS,...

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Tucker the Wunderkind | From Hunters to Dressage: July 2015

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Thursday, July 30, 2015. And then I got on and just started wandering around the freshly mowed hay fields. The crickets were singing. A light breeze picked up after a hot and humid day. Deer were grazing in the fields. Swallows were dovetailing picking up all the bugs the mowing kicked up. And a gorgeous pink sunset was emerging above the treeline. The photos don't even do it justice. Life is good. Life is even better with a horse. Monday, July 27, 2015. Suddenly Farm ESDCTA/ECRDA Horse Show. But I've al...