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Stillness Is Good | mindreadinghorses
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Thinking about horses, interpreting their minds. December 31, 2014. Horses are prey animals and they want to move when they want to move. That’s what keeps them safe. Constraints on movement for a horse, if not built on a solid foundation of self-control, are claustrophobic, making them feel the way you might feel in a deep, dark small cave. You need to understand that so you can be sympathetic. Let’s start with standing in the aisle. This is a foundation for standing elsewhere. Ideally lea...It is all r...
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Goals | Ride Quiet
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An attempt at balancing young adult life and ponies. Rehab from the February 2014 tendon injury (consistent soundness in moderate work). Fitness: Be able to do 3 x 5 min. trot sets without getting exhausted. Trail ride alone without separation anxiety. Maintain correct stretchy trot for at least one full 20m circle in each direction. Improve straightness in the leg yield. Trail ride at least 1x/week. Complete a beginner-novice event without jumping faults and a dressage score below 35. Notify me of new c...
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In The Snow, Wind and Rain | mindreadinghorses
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Thinking about horses, interpreting their minds. November 5, 2014. In The Snow, Wind and Rain. Before I brought my horses home, I would tell my boarding stable operator to blanket my horses when the highs for the day were 40 or less. I felt I was being compassionate. If I was chilled, they would be, right? Well, probably not. If you don’t have shelter, you may sometimes need to windbreaker / rain blanket. Have shelter but you’re getting horizontal sleet in 30MPH winds for a day or two? Might want to brin...
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November | 2014 | mindreadinghorses
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Thinking about horses, interpreting their minds. Monthly Archives: November 2014. November 23, 2014. Tell Me With Anticipation. I first learned the nature of the best horses from Tex. We were doing circles and as I came through the center of the arena, I felt his hip twitch, and as if he had spoken, it said to me “do you want to change leads here, Boss? There was nothing behind her to be afraid of and she was not worried. Some rules can help:. Obviously, watch yourself for habits that can create inapprop...
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Thinking about horses, interpreting their minds. November 5, 2014. In The Snow, Wind and Rain. Before I brought my horses home, I would tell my boarding stable operator to blanket my horses when the highs for the day were 40 or less. I felt I was being compassionate. If I was chilled, they would be, right? Well, probably not. If you don’t have shelter, you may sometimes need to windbreaker / rain blanket. Have shelter but you’re getting horizontal sleet in 30MPH winds for a day or two? Might want to brin...
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Best Friends | mindreadinghorses
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Thinking about horses, interpreting their minds. June 26, 2015. The grey paint horse, Gunsmoke, steps through the gate into the paddock, looking around. In the shelter, his old friend, a bay quarter horse, Lensman, looks up from his hay box. Then the two walk away side by side. They pause overlooking the farm and again share breath in the stylized heart. They stand, side by side and then restlessly walk away, sharing breath one last time near the gate. First, we need the compassion to understand what the...
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The Comfort Zone (and how I kicked its ass this one time) | Ride Quiet
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An attempt at balancing young adult life and ponies. The Comfort Zone (and how I kicked its ass this one time). Asymp; 4 Comments. So… I jumped this? I’m not a super nervous rider anymore… as long as I stay in my comfort zone. My comfort zone over fences is very decidedly in the 2’6″ – 3’0″ range, and as I get closer to 3’0″, the butterflies start acting up. Tebow is young enough that he still needs miles over the friendly, lower fences. So far, he hasn’t needed me to. We were working on bending lines an...
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We had a visitor! Part 2 of 2 | Ride Quiet
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An attempt at balancing young adult life and ponies. We had a visitor! Part 2 of 2. Asymp; 2 Comments. Our afternoon trail ride, as told mostly through pictures. Friend rode Tebow again and I rode Domino because obviously the 6 year old Thoroughbred eventer is much quieter on trails than the 20 year old trail pony. Tebow wants to eat blackberries, too. We found the canal! Tebow at the big river (feat. very poor photo skills by me). Nice cyclist stopped and offered to take our picture. So it wasn’t ...
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August | 2014 | mindreadinghorses
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Thinking about horses, interpreting their minds. Monthly Archives: August 2014. August 27, 2014. Horses as Partners…? So if the idea of partnership with a horse can’t exist because horses can’t offer alignment with human goals, what can take its place? But they don’t know why we want them to do these things, and that puts a burden on us to ensure that what we ask is good for them, and that we make becoming competent at these actions something that is pleasant for them. For this team, I am the coach ̵...
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