Archive for May, 2011
Posted by Ali on May 30, 2011
I rode Miss Annie yesterday and man, was it hot out! Neither of us were enjoying the 90F weather. Plus where we are there’s no indoor, there is an outdoor but there are no trees around so it’s all in the sun. But hey, at least we have a place to ride! I could tell [...]
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Posted by Ali on May 28, 2011
This morning on facebook I came across this video (above) of reining “trainer”, asshole extraordinaire, Craig Schmersal, at the FEI Reining Final 2011 in Sweden. I’m come to realize, one way to fix this type of training is to share it, and educate people. With that in mind… Horse people… This is one of your [...]
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Posted by Ali on May 27, 2011
There are parts of my artwork that (while working on them) I just don’t want to finish… I call these spots “drag” spots, mainly because they take me more time & effort to complete than the rest of the piece. These usually come in two forms for me, a space that I’m afraid to work [...]
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Posted by Ali on May 26, 2011
PETA has proposed a Thoroughbred 360 Life Cycle Fund to the jockey club which would charge $360 for new foal registrations, ownership transfers, and stallion or broodmare registrations. They say this would generate approximately $20 million every year to be spend on retiring thoroughbreds after their racing careers have ended. I think this is a [...]
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Posted by Ali on May 24, 2011
I’ve ridden Annie three times since she’s come home, and each day we’ve done something different. My goal was (and is) to rotate her riding days between working on transitions, lateral work and a trail ride/hack out day. We’ve gone through the entire cycle once and man, I can’t say enough good things about my [...]
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Posted by Ali on May 22, 2011
I went to the barn yesterday and every horse was turned out but Brady… This usually means he did something very bad (FYI: whenever any horse is bad about being let out, they have about 1-2 hours in their stall by themselves). I got Brady out and brushed him, he was a little anxious [...]
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Posted by Ali on May 19, 2011
I’m interested in starting a few collections of my artwork. I’ve decided my first collection I would like to be is building on the “Little pony that could” pointillism drawing I completed in December of 2010. But, my problem is, I need some ponies to pick from! So if you have a hairy pony you [...]
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Posted by Ali on May 12, 2011
Annie is home! I’m pretty excited… She wasn’t too excited to see me when we picked her up this morning, I took her away from her morning hay and she wasn’t impressed. But she loaded on the trailer like a champ. We then took Annie down to the vet, because our whole barn was vaccinated [...]
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Posted by Ali on May 11, 2011
Riding Rambo the other day got me thinking about green horses. Rambo is green, but in a much different way than Annie. Rambo has his w/t/c down pretty well and doesn’t rush too much, and stops as soon as you touch the reins. But, Rambo doesn’t turn well, and doesn’t work off your leg at [...]
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Posted by Ali on May 10, 2011
We are picking up Annie from the therapeutic riding center around 8:30 a.m. Thursday morning, we then are taking her to our vet, because all of our horses had their shots and bloodwork pulled while she was gone. So she needs to be updated on everything. Then, she will make it home! It would’ve been [...]
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