me two hope you ride soon

Wow. Thank-you very much for saying that. I can't even begin to explain how bad this day was.
I hope your jumping goes amazing! Enjoy every moment.
Thanks again.

Hi Jackie!! My friend Patti really got alot out of that thread about calming signals and she was quoting from a lady that said she had 35 years experience watching horse behavior and then I read it and said, that's her, my friend Jackie that I told you about that helps me!! I love that thread.... :) I wonder where my video is though...

It was amazing.
I'm super glad too!!

Hey, we're kind of neighbors!
Cheers to the East Coast :)

I will not give up on my girls! No matter how pissy D acts I will not give up on her.. Haha!!
Thank you for your encouragement.. I can't wait for the "magic" to happen:)
Hey, maybe we'll cross each other on the trails sometime.. Haha:)

thanks i like that one

Thankyou soo much JAckie That really helped i will learn all i can ITs nice to know im not the only one who as felt this way before(horrible) i dont think i will ever forget how to ride i am very deturmined and have lived a hard life exspecially for my age riding was one place i cud totally express my self u really hepled me thanks no im not completely heartless thanx again
Reagan(:♥

Thanktyou and right back at you i will(:♥

Yes Jackie,he is abit of a fav at the moment.All the kids ohh and arh over him

Yess i do misss it alot and what you told me is soo true and thanks again for all the good adive(:♥

I know righttttt IMMM soo excited(: i can finnaly ride again thankyou(:

Hi Jackie! How are you? It's getting cold and grey up here in NY State. Not my favorite time of year, for sure! But, we're keeping busy with lessons and have added a few more boarders to the herd. Two of my students now own their own horses (boarded here) and they are having a ball riding together.

One of the horses is an "off the track Thoroughbred". He is the sweetest, kindest, most gentle thing! He's the second one that we have here. The other one came straight off the track five years ago and he is wonderful as well. If I ever get another horse (for myself, for a change) I might consider one of those guys!

Have you been riding much?

I really liked and completely agree with what you said concerning body language and how a horse's body language should be thought of as a paragraph, each signal considered in the context of that paragraph. Breaking each and every signal down and taking it standing alone at face value gives an incomplete picture of the overall message. One thing I am confused about and would like some clarification, I always thought 'join up' once established, it carried over to each time the horse was handled, that there was no need to 're-join up',...the connection between horse and handler could be strengthened by just grooming, riding, enjoying one another. Am I missing something, because I do not have to go thru the join up over and over?

Actually you having a more 'old fashioned' approach to horse training is exactly what I like. I get a little fed-up with all the 'new' techniques that keep popping up. I put a comment up when Ellen started the join up blog, I took it down when I realized that the round pen work was what everyone thought of as join up. Join up to me is not a physical action, it's a mental (dare I say emotional) choice made by the horse to put trust in a human and can be built and strengthened with trustworthy actions on the part of the human. My personal opinion is that join up is just getting the horse to think of me as a member of the herd, the leader of the herd because the horse can depend on me to always have the horse's best interest at heart. That can be done by just spending time with the horse, I'm talking about a horse that is not wild or has been mistreated by humans. I fully understand that a wild horse or a horse with trust issues when it comes to humans can benefit from work in the round pen, not chasing but just having the room to 'flee' until it finally realizes I'm not a threat, again simply showing the horse that joining with me, becoming buddies with me, is a very good thing...NOT chasing the poor thing around until it's brain gets fried. IMO, when you said, "Consistent (same signal means the same thing), humane handling while listening to what the horse has to say (and apologizing any time I irritated/hurt the horse)". that IS join up, that was showing the horse that 'joining up' with you was a good thing. When I got my mare, she was 18 months old and wild as a buck, I spent hours every day just standing in her pen with her, letting her get used to me/my smell, she started trusting me. She started letting me groom her and from there we made a secure bond; she's now 25 y/o and we've had years of fun together, still having fun together for that matter.

Thanks for the welcome, Jackie! I am looking forward to speaking with many of the members here and to learning as I go. If I can ever help anyone out here with marketing, advertising, or business development needs, let me know!

Hi Jackie, I’m writing from Italy =)
Thanks for your nice comment :) I don’t know Caprilli's Sistema..what is it?
What is my photo you love the seat over fances? =) bye

thanks for the valuable informations you have provided me, really interesting!
I started riding only a two years ago.. and watching other people, I always thought that, for comparison, I not bend enough on my horse's back and I've not long enough hands on my horse's neck to accompany her mouth.. but I naturally find the balance as you see in the photographs and the results are always good =)

thank you very much indeed for all the congratulations and for the interesting concepts that you have quoted me, you're very kind.
I will look at your blog and I actively seek to stay in touch and comment when I can. I'm trying to learn the technical English terms of riding as well as possible.
I will always do my best riding and jumping, follow me and I hope you'll see =)

No): not yet i dont know if i will my dad doesnt realize how much i love it ad we are still kind of tight on money and its not like im some big shot who could get sponsers...but IM aksing to ride for my Birthday and christmas and thats it and im hoping that will do the trick but mayby not):

Yes(: i did Haha i almost flew through the air tho(: lol but my baby is usually kinda devil but she was awsome(:

thanks for your comment.

do you remember? I said: you'll see

and then...... :D

Thank you for your concern! :) I have since figured it out.

Hi Jackie,

I did have some lessons with Kay directly, but being there for the summer camps, I usually rode with the instructors that handled the camp program. I did however work closely with Kay one summer...in the camp kitchen when the cook broke a leg getting bucked off when galloping racehorses one morning! Karen came onto the scene I believe it was the last summer I spent there working in the kitchen. I rode in the end of summer FS clinics a couple of times too. Saw my first "three phase" one summer, along with watching the Potomac 3 Day Event and got hooked on eventing. I struck off on that branch to learn and do more eventing-related riding and ended up as a working student (later, in the instructor's course) at Morven Park the following summer. Just down the road from Purcellville (where NF was located then) in Leesburg. I satisfied my eventing bug finally (made it into Preliminary on my home-bred) and moved on to foxhunting. I realized that my love of cross-country riding started at North Fork where we rode out once a week over the wonderful hunt country of northern Virginia. Taking up hunting was like returning full circle to what I had originally fallen in love with. And, despite all the dressage, balanced seat, etc. that I have done, I have always kept the principles of FS in my riding and training. Particularly now with my OTTB I've had 3 years. A springy horse combined with all the years have taken their toll on my back! 

I've always felt that using the FS principles was the best way to start any horse as well as to give them a break from competition schooling. As I learned at MP, "A hand that takes when the horse gives and gives when the horse takes results in a horse that goes kindly, if incorrectly." At my age and with my goals these days, kindness trumps "correctness". When he gives me a soft mouth, jaw and back, I'm happy - and so is my horse!

Heyy

thanks!

 

Hi Jackie..... where did the time go?  Why was I on Barnmice non stop and then not for a long time?????? I just re-registered and I see that there is a new format, interesting... :)  I don't know if I'll be able to find you over on the new format are you there?  Oliver is so great... I put up a photo of us today on Facebook and this lady was harrassing me that I don't really know about how I was pulling on his mouth and why don't I ride bitless and I thought again, too many cooks in the kitchen and I would never ever want to hurt my horse..... like my o ring snaffle was abusing him..... so maybe I just suck I don't know..... there are so many thing to worry about..... and being a lameo at riding is not fun.... I wish I had more experience, but hay, I can get my horse away from a girl horse so that is good I guess... I look forward to many conversations this year with you my friend.. Happy New year.... How you ride in the cold I will never understand.  I am feeling better doing Yoga and getting stronger so I can ride.... :)   Are you seeing a warm snap at all?

Thanks so what's up

thats not good today in school it was snowing so hard so fast everyone ran to the window to see! :) Whats up!

Yep! I've only been riding her up and down the driveway maybe 5 times, then getting off.

Once the nicer weather comes along, it will be easier. I'll probably be sending her to a trainer in April to get her started over jumps, because I'm not experienced enough to do that yet.

Thanks for the comment!

Thank you very much

 

Thanks for your comment on my video, I really appreciate it!

 

Thanks again, Jackie!

What kind of bridle are you riding the bay horse in?

heyyy

 

Thats good sick of homework your so lucky that you have warm weather here its hailing and its FREEZING here same here i hate going to school its boring and thanks now i feel lucky that i get to ride but my pony is located 2 hrs away :( cant go up there only on weekends maybe going up WED!!!

hello your horses are so cute

Hi Jackie , Yes ,your right. I took about 6months to get that happening! We have to train a new horse this year , so we started today with him, getting him use to have another horse in his hairdo. He's a big un, 17.3 !! I'll put some pics up of him when we have a bit more weight on him.

ok thank you do you have any pets

 

oh thank you for looking at my pictures the bay is named Doodlebug and the flea bitten greys name is Reggie i dont ride them anymore what are the names of the horses that you ride

ohh i love their names it ok that is dont ride Reggie and Doodlebug I learn off of every horse that i ride

I'm sorry to hear that you have issues so similar to mine--tremor, strength, left side weakness, exhaustion, balance...  My sweet gelding looks down at me when I land on the ground as if to say, "I don't know what I did to cause that, but I AM SO SORRY!"  Smile.   He's my best therapist.  Sounds like you have a great teacher.  I'd love to find someone like that for myself.  Keep on enjoying every day and look forward to reading your postings.

Yeah--there's nothing like the look of amusement on a horse's face, is there?  You KNOW you have been truly laughed at! 

I keep telling my doctors "you don't get it--I will NOT stop riding--it's the only thing that keeps me going..."    So--we reached a compromise--I now ride Western.  They think that keeps me safer (more support  plus a saddle horn)--they don't get that I don't have any idea I'm coming off until I'm on the ground!!  

I have truly wonderful support--and am very grateful!

aww thank you so much Jackie Reggie was a good guy

Hi Jackie.... well, I don't know how I am doing.... things spun out of control..... that thread about calming signals and watching Ellen with her Stallion got me all out in the back yard with my horses...... and Cavalia came to town which is inspiring..... and I was happy with my horse Oliver for five minuts...... and then all of a sudden my trainer came back and started using negative adjectives for all the bad things Oliver was doing while I was trying to do my Cavalia demo and I just fell apart again...... I don't know girl.... this Orphan Horse thing might be the end of me...... he looks exactly like Ellen stallion to me, he wasn't crowding, we were working together, I thought we looked great and I was not afraid...... I am kind of depressed again about him... and when that happens, back to Barnmice to talk about horses..... cuz if I go outside I might play with my horse, godforbid..... and I couldn't figure out my name on here so I was lost in space..... LOL.... I hope you are being the all inspiring riding Jackie that you always are!! 

Thank you Jackie, I look forward to finding my way around the web site!

Interesting--we've played with the idea of sidesaddle, also, because my right leg is more or less intact strength and sensation-wise.  But the western saddle is fine at this point--and as long as folks don't get their knickers in a knot when I show up (only VERY occasionally--when I feel REALLY fine) dressed correctly for fox hunting--in a western saddle--who cares?  I was very proud that I spent my 50th birthday foxhunting--just with the hilltoppers, mind you--not up with the pack--but not bad for a lady with MS.  Rode English that day--perfectly turned out--though scared some of my fellow riders who recognized my balance & strength problems.  Aren't horsepeople wonderful?  I also have a great photo of me "competing" at mounted games--with a helper so I could be safe.  Horsepeople are just the BEST!

You sound like you know yourself so well--good for you.  It's great that you can still contribute to building & improving horses--and isn't that what it's all about?  Thanks for sharing with me.

Also--LOVE that quote--Winston Churchill, wasn't it?  About the outside of a horse being good for the inside of a (wo)man...1

You are SO right--horses--in any way shape and form--are the BEST therapy.. Aren't we blessed!!

Thank you Jackie. I look forward to finding my way around. 

Cheers, Heather

Hi Jackie!  It's great to be here and thanks for the warm welcome!  I haven't found the equivilent cat site, no!  I am looking forward to talking with you all and sharing horse stories, my equine teaching master, Apache, is just a dude.  He is the most amazing soul, but then we all are aren't we?  Speak again soon. Blessings XX