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Post by racaille on Oct 15, 2008 9:19:23 GMT
The masterclass with the Saumur professor is set for Nov 16 and I'm in a flap now, not at all helped by the YO who started quizzing me yesterday about the sequence I have prepared. WHAT SEQUENCE?  So I spent a little while in the arena (never more than 20 minutes) trying to remind Paco that he isn't just a happy hacker but he was not in agreement. He works Ok on the right rein but all his work on the left is stiff and difficult. We are seeing some improvement on left lead canter: if I ask from trot he will usually manage it, but from walk it's catastrophic. And with a summer of not much schooling he seems to have forgotten how to hold himself - although, as usual, he's brilliant when he's cross. So, with just four weeks to go, anyone got any brilliant ideas/exercises/bluffs? |
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Post by fimacg on Oct 15, 2008 9:28:46 GMT
buy another horse?
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Post by racaille on Oct 15, 2008 9:29:52 GMT
What an excellent idea! ;D
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Post by Jen on Oct 15, 2008 9:59:00 GMT
train racaille up? if hes young he might co-operate better?? or just bribe with carrots polos likits treats biscuit things and anything else you can get your hands on!!! |
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Post by Becca on Oct 15, 2008 10:42:32 GMT
have you had his back and saddle checked recently? or is he jusr being stubben?
lots and lots of circles to supple him up, i used to circle bernie at every marker and always to twice as much on his bad rein but end on the good rein, so e.g. 20min left the 10 min right.
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Post by duckles on Oct 15, 2008 16:21:32 GMT
Didn't Jeanne and D'arcy do something like this in Perfect Day???
Seriously, I bet Paco will perform spectacularly (spelling???) on the day-
Brig had an exercise where you walked on a circle, turned on the forehand and into canter- I thought it was great - that could help?
Could you do a lot of indirect transitions like halt to trot etc and then try the walk to canter? I have found that good with a horse that gets bored or lazy.
Again- bending around poles or school figures over poles can help with the lazier/easily bored horses.
Or if he likes jumping- that could help - ie come around the corner in an active walk- look at jump and go directly into canter- seeing the jump could activate the left leg???
I'm just thinking of things I do with Cori- who you can't school 2 days in a row as he gets so bored and switched off unless you do something new or something he wouldn't expect.
PS I am sure Paco is really pretty good- why else would your YO set you up to give a display to a Samaur professor!
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Post by racaille on Oct 16, 2008 14:35:37 GMT
Some good ideas here, thanks ;D I did, for a moment, think of Racaille .... but he's too young, he hasn't done anything except hack, I think the prof would think I was taking the piddle if we couldn't do ANYTHING!  Becca, his back has been done and he is currently 'relearning' how to go on the left. Sadly we don't have saddlers here like you do, already people think I'm a bit touched for 'checking' the fit of his saddle myself as best I can! I'll have a go at those exercises, I know really it's circles, circles, circles. I was hoping for a miracle quick fix! And I still have to come up with a sequence - as little left rein as poss!  |
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Post by racaille on Oct 16, 2008 14:42:40 GMT
PS Duckles, you did make me laugh - no we're rubbish, honestly and the one thing you can count on on the day is that Paco will be an bottom! The idea of the 'masterclass' is that the prof will work with each of us on our own specific goals, so we have to ride a little sequence so that he can evaluate us (gulp  ) You have to have more than a certain Galop exam, but after that it is open to all. There will be six of us and three will be teenagers on some very floaty horses. Paco is a great blundering, clumsy oaf in comparison! |
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Post by madcatwoman on Oct 16, 2008 15:15:52 GMT
when my sister did her galop 7 dressage test , it was a bit the same , she had to do a left half pass , but star wasnt having any of it , the right HP was perfect , so we discovered that the examiner sat at A , and the view from X -H. was slightly obscured by hay bales , so my sis just put a slight left bend on star but just walked in a diagal line n no lateral steps at all,
she got away with it so much that was awarded 9 marks for that movement
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Post by maximum on Oct 20, 2008 10:58:03 GMT
aha Racaille you know where to go for ideas now dont you oh proof reader!!!!
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Always saddle your own horse
) You have to have more than a certain Galop exam, but after that it is open to all. There will be six of us and three will be teenagers on some very floaty horses. Paco is a great blundering, clumsy oaf in comparison! 
