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At 1:36pm on December 30, 2010, Carrie Hill said…

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!

At 9:40pm on December 22, 2010, Taylor said…
Thank you for your concern! :) I have since figured it out.
At 9:59am on December 15, 2010, Gaia Vincenzi said…

thanks for your comment.

do you remember? I said: you'll see

and then...... :D

At 5:12pm on December 9, 2010, Reagan Smith said…
Yes(: i did Haha i almost flew through the air tho(: lol but my baby is usually kinda devil but she was awsome(:
At 11:36pm on December 3, 2010, Reagan Smith said…
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):
At 10:28am on November 30, 2010, Gaia Vincenzi said…
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 =)
At 3:39am on November 30, 2010, Gaia Vincenzi said…
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 =)
At 9:54am on November 29, 2010, Gaia Vincenzi said…
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
At 7:44pm on November 21, 2010, One Contact Media said…
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!
At 11:41am on November 20, 2010, Sarah Siler said…
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.
At 1:00pm on November 19, 2010, Sarah Siler said…
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?
At 5:59pm on November 1, 2010, Susan Deakin said…
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?
At 9:20pm on October 30, 2010, Reagan Smith said…
I know righttttt IMMM soo excited(: i can finnaly ride again thankyou(:
At 8:22am on October 21, 2010, Reagan Smith said…
Yess i do misss it alot and what you told me is soo true and thanks again for all the good adive(:♥
At 4:40pm on October 17, 2010, Geoffrey Pannell said…
Yes Jackie,he is abit of a fav at the moment.All the kids ohh and arh over him
At 4:47pm on October 11, 2010, Reagan Smith said…
Thanktyou and right back at you i will(:♥
At 10:39pm on October 10, 2010, Reagan Smith said…
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(:♥
At 8:20pm on October 5, 2010, Lexi said…
thanks i like that one
At 2:06pm on September 24, 2010, Megan Hammock said…
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:)
At 1:19pm on September 24, 2010, Megan Hammock said…
Hey, we're kind of neighbors!
Cheers to the East Coast :)

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