Tag: Equestrian
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Book Review: Undomesticated Women by Anna Blake
This is a very entertaining book. It follows the travels of Anna Blake as she and her dog Mister drove 14 thousand miles in eight months pulling an A frame trailer she calls the Rollin’ Rancho This book takes Anna to clinics she had arranged in advance and takes us with her as she crosses the USA through 30 states…
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And the season begins!
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Biasini Speaks: I have arrived
Hello Dear Humans, I am back in the South! I knew I was coming when one the girls at the vet’s barn clipped off all my fur. They always do that before I go to Florida because otherwise I would be much too hot. So I was clipped and then I kept wondering when I was going…
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CMMC: Any word with “P” anywhere.
My Word with P is Piaffe. The piaffe is a movement from the Grand Prix and the and Grand Prix Special. These are the most advanced dressage tests and the ones that riders compete in at the Olympics. The piaffe is an extremely collected trot . The horse does not move foward and trots on…
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CWWC :Signs
Cee had asked us to show signs for her Which Way Challenge. Here’s my repsonse. All of my signs come from the Winter Equestrian Festival showgrounds in Wellington Florida.
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Biasini Speaks: I do get work breaks you know!
Hello Dear Humans, I am doing lots of trot work now as you know. Ma Leueen has injured her back so she is notable to do any trot. So Trainer Lynsey does the trot work. Then Ma Leueen gets on and does the walking work. I know it looks like I’m not doing much but…
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He looks after me!
Biasini is the only horse safe enough for me to ride at the moment. He looks after me.
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Monday Portrait
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Biasini Speaks: I’m trotting now!
Hello Dear Humans . As Ma Leueen has told you the vet had cleared me for moving up to a little bit of trotting . At first Trainer Lynsey got on and did a bit of trot with me after she had given Ma Leueen a lesson with me walking. But now Ma Leueen does…
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Interview: Mother and Daughter Team. Evi Strasser and Tanya Strasser-Shostak
If Evi and Tanya ride on the Canadian Team in the Pan Am Games they would be the first ever Mother/Daughter teammates.
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Walking, for six weeks,on firm footing.
I am currently reading “Riding Through My Life.” This is the autobiorgaphy of Princess Anne. She speaks of an essential part of the exercise that must be done to get a horse fit for a big three day event like Badminton. “Starting work meant six weeks of walking the roads—very boring but considered essential after…
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Rain!Rain!Rain!
“A rainy day is an equlaizer. You don’t know what’s going to happen. You just take what you can get.” Charlie Harvey