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DRESSAGE FANATICS!!!

This is a group for all dressage people who have questions, advice, news, accomplishiments, pics, anything you want to share. Dressage rocks!!!

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Dressage Fanatics

Hey Dressage Fanatics! Here you are free to share everything dressage. If you have a problem with your horse, start a discussion and see if you get any advice. If you just went to a big CDI and have some great pics, post them for all to see. You don't have to worry about being critizied for being a dressage freak. I hope everyone enjoys this group!!!
~Catherine~

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Raising the bar of Dressage Culture - In Praise of a "Schoolmaster"! 1 Reply

Hello All! My name is Muriel Chestnut and I have been involved in the Equestrian - specifically Dressage - community for a very long time it seems now! - over 25 years! However, I am new to this site…Continue

Tags: Natural Horsemanship, Iberian., Schoolmaster, Dressage

Started by Muriel Chestnut. Last reply by SUSIE-SOLOMON-MABE Dec 1, 2011.

Perfect the Basics Clinic & Symposium #3 with Belinda Trussell

Perfect the Basics Clinic & Symposium #3Learn how to properly ride lateral work from Olympic and 2-time World Equestrian Games competitor Belinda Trussell!Saturday, February 19, 2011! All rider…Continue

Started by Justin Ridgewell Feb 1, 2011.

Clinic with Canadian Belinda Trussell 1 Reply

  Perfect the Basics Clinic & Symposium Serieswith Canadian Olympian / 2x WEG Team member Belinda TrussellreturnsSaturday January 22nd, 2011 !!at Oakcrest Farms Follow the link for more…Continue

Started by Justin Ridgewell. Last reply by Justin Ridgewell Jan 19, 2011.

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Comment by Rachel Heysen-Smith on June 27, 2009 at 5:58am
Hello,
I LOVE DRESSAGE!!

Rach
Comment by Catherine Chamberlain 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!
Comment by Jan Jollymour on April 28, 2009 at 9:40am
Thanks, Mary! I've been really impressed by your posts, and if I have occasion to get to your neck of the woods I'll look you up!

I spent the weekend at a clinic with Bert Rutten (coach of the NL dressage team at Athens 2004), which was fabulous! I sat in a chair and did my physio exercises and wished I was riding. He's back the end of June and I'll definitely ride then. I rode 50 minutes of reall work yesterday, which felt great until I got off and took the brace off, at which point the wrist collapsed into melted rubber. I take your point about not overdoing it!

I'm off to a 3 day show with clients on Thursday, which will give the wrist a break (sorry about the pun!) and then home for a week before Lamplight's CPEDI 3* in Illinois. That again will give the wrist a bit of a rest as I've only got one client/horse there, then home again to my first show of the season - I can hardly wait!!

The wonderful thing about this sport is that there is ALWAYS more to learn, and horses always have something more to teach us.
Comment by Annette Willson on April 28, 2009 at 3:00am
It is so great talking to the passionate ones. So many jumpers hate dressage although most agree its use and need. i certainly love to jump a well trained dressage horse and was always safe jumping cross country on a responsive horse.
Comment by Catherine Chamberlain on April 26, 2009 at 8:55pm
Welcome to the group everyone! I'm so excited to see so many new members! Hope you like what you see and feel free to make suggestions!
Comment by Emily on April 23, 2009 at 4:29pm
Hi! I am new to this barnmice thing.
I love dressage! :) it is my passion :)
I do dressage with my arabian (almost horse) that was rescued from the meat market and I have trained him for 4 years now by myself :).
I am soooo proud of him and we are going to try showing silver this year :) one step higher then schooling shows! :)
I can not wait.
 

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