DRESSAGE FANATICS!!!

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Comment by Mary McGuire Smith on July 29, 2009 at 12:19pm

Hi Andre! Great to have you here! We all share our trials, tribulations, and triumphs here! I hope you will be comfortable to share yours, as well! LOL--I think our horses have the patience of angels with all of us. ;-)

Comment by Andre Steenkamp on July 29, 2009 at 10:01am

Hi Everybody - I have been doing dressage for 6 months; My horse is far better at being a horse than I am at being a rider. We are muddling through together - with lots of patience and laughs.

Comment by Ann Hatfield on July 12, 2009 at 12:45am

Can't claim to be a fanatic but enjoy very basic dressage. I have ridden a test under Jan, a member of this site, tried to get in to board in her stable one year so as to take lessons in the winter; she was booked solid with clients already there. She is an excellant judge, and, I understand a super instructor.

I am a peasant in the dressage world, schooling in a flat spot in the pasture or at friend's rings when I can, and schooling on the trail. It makes it more difficult but it is possible.

Years ago, when I rode some endurance, some of the best international endurance horses were well schooled in dressage and were expected by their riders to do entire races in a reasonable frame, not hollowed out as my old Polish Arab and many other endurance horses seem to want to travel.

Odd as this may sound, I am raising some sport mules and mules have been allowed into the top-flight dressage shows in th US. It will be very interesting to try this. Mules are extremely athletic, despite their shorter necks. If you want to see mules, and a donkey or two, doing dressage and jumping go to the website belonging to Meredith Hodges. She competes, judges and raises top quality mules at the Lucky 3 Ranch in CO.

Comment by Catherine on June 27, 2009 at 8:09pm

Welcome Rachel! Great to have a new member! :)

Comment by Rachel Heysen-Smith on June 27, 2009 at 5:58am

Hello,
I LOVE DRESSAGE!!

Rach

Comment by Catherine on May 6, 2009 at 3:45pm

Your welcome! I know exactly how you feel, which was the reason I decided to make this group. Good luck with your mare! I love to hear stories like yours. Hope you have fun on Barnmice!
~Cat~

Comment by Ari on May 6, 2009 at 12:27am

Hi
I'm new to Barnmice.
(Also a DRESSAGE FANATIC)
Thanks for making this group, it's nice to know there are other people out there just like me.
If I talk about memorizing tests to my hunter/jumper friends they just look at me funny, even though they have to memorize courses too. LOL

Right now I'm working on first level with my quarter horse-ish mare rescued from the meat pen- we've been together for 3 1/2 years but this is only our 2nd year doing dressage.

Cheers!

Comment by Jan Jollymour on May 4, 2009 at 1:18pm

Thanks, Mary. The clinic with Bert was terrific, and I'm glad I went. I got home on the Sunday night, and at 11:24 on Tuesday morning Christa's GP horse colicked, and by 3 p.m. she and I were driving him 5 hours through the mountains to the colic center in Langley, and by 9:30 p.m. he was in surgery. His caecum and colon were twisted lengthwise, upside down and over on the wrong side, so surgery was the only option. He's come through thus far really well, still at the clinic, but eating and drinking now. We drove home again that night, arriving at 3 a.m., then re-packed the trailer and loaded up at 6 a.m. the next morning for a 6 hour drive to a show (with another horse). Got home late last night - what a week!

I live in a small town inthe southern interior of British Columbia, Canada. I'm about as far from you as I can be without being in Alaska or Hawaii, but I'll be in Chicago next week for a 3* at Lamplight, and in England this summer for CDI, so I do get around...

The show went well, with my students winning two Reserve Championships and the 15 year old YR beating all the professionals on her little OTTB mare and ending up with the MacKenzie Cup. There were no junior entries, so she rode in the Open Division against a whole class of pro's on WB's, and spanked them soundly! It just goes to show that really good work can still pull the scores!

Oops, the dryer just stopped, so the laundry calls...Thanks again, Jan

Comment by Ruth Hogan Poulsen on April 29, 2009 at 7:53am

great little slide show and some good images from the program... hosted by the WOW factor RADIO!!

http://www.mydeo.com/videorequest.asp?XID=49205&CID=262617

Comment by Mary McGuire Smith on April 29, 2009 at 1:19am

Sounds fabulous, Jan! Thanks for the compliment, too! I bet auditing at Bert's clinic was great fun, and LOL at the pun. Good luck to your clients! I take it you didn't get to Rolex? How far away are you, if you don't mind my asking? I had a friend/fellow instructor of mine drive up on Friday night just to walk the CC with Jimmy Wofford Saturday morning, and then watch the CC phase, and then back home Saturday night (5 hour drive each way) to give lessons the next day. I told her she was crazy, and that if I hadn't had previous commitments that I couldn't cancel I would go with her. I am still waiting for the report, but she is probably still catching up on sleep! LOL
Keep us posted about your progress and about your students!

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