True Blue Stables
594084 Blind Line L9W 5N1 Orangeville, ON, Canada

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I usually wake up feeling like this...around 60 by lunch lol

Nice view of the extensive blood supply beneath your horse's hoof wall:

I think this should be the screen saver on every horse person's phone

It's not for kids...It's for Minis!!!

This almost looked intentional on the horse's part........

Laundry day is so much fun

Topic: "Schooling our eyes" What can be a criteria to see if there is still more weight on the front? I have been commenting pictures of my students for many ...years now. I am a visual person and I have learned so much by going threw all these pictures and teaching so many different types of horses. Instead of writing long articles or drawings, which can be far from reality, I think pictures or videos are showing "the proof in the pudding". I have been asked recently, what I mean by saying: "have a look at the weight carrying diagonal pair of legs in this trot moment and you will see there is still slightly more weight on the front." It is easy to see in trot, the best would be on a straight line (on a circle the inside lateral pair has always more weight ), but once your eyes are a bit aware of it, you will see it even in sideway movements, in walk or in canter. For me it is highly important to emphasize here that this is NOT MEANT to criticize. (Especially not my students here in the pictures who are doing a brilliant job and who are riding their horses with a lot of feel!) For me, It is a constant process to seek for the best position and to work on the raising of the withers between the shoulders in our daily work with horses- no matter if it's arena work, hacking, jumping. The lifting can change within seconds, an optimum is hardly ever consistent for a long time, but my goal should be to improve the horizontal balance constantly in my training. For some horses with difficult built (also depending on the breed) it can take years! For others it's more natural. Even more terrifying to see those excellent horses we have been breeding nowadays showing a trot like on that first picture. If my horse is showing a "three- legged- trot" seemingly highly "advanced", I can definitely say that something went terribly wrong in my training. (Veronika Bühn)

Stay warm everybody.....your ponies have been fed!!