Free Lunge Lesson

it is hard to video tape and lunge at the same time. i never liked using that pesoa rig and that horse always got a workout because of his tendency to burst into canter. i insist on sending them back into canter once they break if they do that. i like to send the message that I say when to canter, not the horse, and that has been my very successful method.

in this session, i think the horse recognized my sigh and the phrase "wrong lead" and was correcting it, don't you?

sending his quarters to the wall with the whip and my body language wasn't make the difference that's for sure.

BarnMice Bio

As well as my lifelong interest in the world of horses, and many years teaching horse-riding lessons, I spent 15 years in Management in the Financial Services Industry, while eventing with a corporate sponsorship. More recently, I launched a horse-talk radio show at the University of Guelph's station that eventually syndicated to reach the Hamilton broadcast market as well. For this program, I was honoured to receive the Susan J. Anstey 2008 Media Award from Equine Canada. I was able to interview a wide variety of horse people including experts across many disciplines, genres and industries, as well as attend fantastic shows such as the Dancing White Stallions, Can-Am and the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair.

I started riding when I was 9, and have schooled countless hours with National Level 3 Coach Margaret Godson. I have attended clinics and discussions with with Paige Lockton Wilde, Jackie Bellamy, Leslie Grant, Darren ChiaChia, Dorita Kovacks, Walter Zettl, David O'Connor, Peter Gray, Marios Delauriers, Jo Young, Ian Stark and many others. I have volunteered with therapeutic riding associations, jogged a filly hitched to a harness racing cart, and mounted the equine star of Carmen at the Met in Manhattan. I surprised an elk in the woods of Alberta my first time in a Western saddle, and I have actually herded cattle. One of the best rides of my life was through water on a Paso Fino, and I have also tolted on an Icelandic. Someday, I hope to ride a kur and also aspire to drive.

I am certified and insured as an English Instructor and I enjoy choreographing really Musical Ride Movements! I sometimes teach out of Manoravon Farms (New Forest Pony Breeders) in Guelph, Myrddin Stable, Greyden Farms Equestrian Centre in Erin, Rivendell Ranch and student property as well. I also coach at a few shows, as well as helping out with Pony Club.

I have programmed, authored curriculum and implemented summer and March break camps and authored/presented for Equine Guelph. I also often think of some kind of on-line Pony Club that I should be inventing!

Have you heard about the Pony Musicals? Get your ticket money ready...

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way the animals are treated."

Christmas Gymkana - ideas

[ ] invite a parade of breeds
[ ] invite pony clubbers (to sing fire`s buring while riding thread the needle, circles off in teams of 5, 15m circles back to remeet partner on centre line ETC)

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other things to do
[ ]fencing plan worksheet
[ ] turn out procedures

Learning to Fence?

http://www.patriotchargers.com/fencing%20help.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG3dkPsUzzo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKTUJMrF_Sg&feature=related

Manoravon Herd Member Bio's

Have you ever had to stop your car for a group of geese crossing the road? I have often had to stop my car to let a goose flock pass in front of me, on my way to the barn... at Manoravon, the ponies pictured below will often trot TO you.

In a part of England, ponies run free. They roam wild, in the heaths, the bogs and the woodlands. They live in a natural herd environment 24/7 as true mountain/moorland ponies. At Greyden I taught a student that travels to "The New Forest" area every year and she says you see them just foaling at the side of the road.

Annual round ups (Drifts) are held so owners can remove surplus animals and many are sold for transformation into quality riding or driving ponies.

Dave says that ours here are so fat because they've been bred to survive on nothing but bark and bracken over there and over here we throw them out in rich grassy paddocks!


Top Brass - 13
Finnegan - 13.31/2
Rocky - 13.h 1/2
Peanut - 13.h
Countessa 12.2
Cheerio's bio should include that her offspring is for sale right now for $30,000 or $40,000, and that she was featured in the book Crazy for Ponies

Racar Finesse - a beautiful black pony born in 1990. We measured her recently as 12.2hands high and she is most often ridden by Kim, usually with the Dr. Bristol and Lynda's dressage saddle. And gloves! She is a go-er, suitable for Rider Level 5's and above. She has done jumper 3' and is also broke to drive. In the paddock, she's hard to catch, and is the mother of our beautiful Faith and the slim black filly out back.

Jacob's Rosebud Dream - a twenty something liver chesnut, mother of Finesse. She has done PPG, costume classes and a little bit over fences. Dream is suitable for Rider Level 4 and above.

Musical Hooves

more from the news:
"A waltz is NOT good riding music. (There is no gait with 3 total beats, remember that the canter has 3 beats PLUS a period of suspension that must COUNT as a beat)"
i count it for students as 1-2-3-WAIT.
ah ha,
i always thought a waltz had a moment of suspension.
maybe this epiphany is the musical breakthrough i've been waiting for.
ha
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1) music can improve and enhance a horse's movement and the rider's rhythm! When music fits the horse and rider, both the quality of the gaits and movements improve.

2) Studies show that music affects our physiology. Slow music slows the heartbeat and the breathing rate as well as brings down blood pressure.

3) Faster music speeds up these same functions. Listening to your favorite music is good for your cardiovascular system. Researchers have shown that joyful music has a healthy effect on blood vessel function.

4) Riding to music increases your endurance and feelings of well-being. Studies show that exercising to music improves endurance by 15% and improve the "feeling states" so, people derive much greater pleasure from exercise. (Those cool endorphins!!)

5) Many hospitals use music to treat patients with stress-related illnesses to stimulate the brain and relax the body.

6) Music affects both sides of your brain, so whether you are a left-brain logical thinker or a right-brain artistic thinker, music helps you ride better.

7) Music creates a long-lasting change in brainwave activity. That means that music can bring lasting benefits to your state of mind, even after you've stopped listening.

8) Music filters out background noises so that you and your horse can concentrate better.

points from www.ruthhoganpoulsen.com, or Visit Coaches Corner at:
http://www.barnmice.com/groups/group/show?id=1773158%3AGroup%3A22893

Possibly Useful Info?

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