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Weert

It felt like the Anky Pony Club on Friday morning with all of us running around gathering our gear, preparing the truck, hanging hay nets, adding shavings etc… We had Anky’s head groom Wilica’s mom drive us which was nice. She
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The name of the game is…

FORWARD, FORWARD, FORWARD Through the weekend and today that is all Vitall and I have been working on in our lessons. I’m working on keeping him forward and short. Every time I ask him to stay forward/active he goes forward a few strides then s
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Hari Kari

What, two blogs in a day you ask? I’m making up for being late this week, and also  stock piling reading material because next week I am going to Costa Rica to work on freestyles and then to have a few days in the fabulous natural surround
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Watch out World, Here comes Canada

There will be no M’s in today’s post. No, not when there is such incredible good news to report from our eventers at Rolex. It is almost certainly the best result ever for Canada – I’d nearly bet money on it and as you know I
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Rock on Rolex part 5

                                Selena YAY! I survived another Rolex thanks to my faithful steed Colombo. Not only did we survive and go clean, but we made it under the t
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Rock on Rolex part 3

Selena’s five cent’s worth: Well dressage day is definetly not my favourite. I woke up this morning and found it difficult to choke down my bagel.  I rode Mr. C in his new double bridle this morning at around 9am.  He was wonder
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Frame and Speed Control

In past few lessons I have realized how important speed control and the frame is. Even more important than working on the excersises. Everything comes down to speed control. Wether you can move forward or slow down at the drop of a hat. If your
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Rock on Rolex!

Selena: Well, we made it to the top ten. Eigth in fact. I am so happy with his show jumping round. We finaly got our mojo back.  My last two warm up fences gave me the feel I had last year of how to make him jump clear.  The rail I did knoc
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Rock on Rolex part 4

Today was a busy day.  Although we had no competing to do, there was plenty to be done, in fact, it’s now 11.30pm and I have just got back to the hotel from doing late night check.  I dropped Selena back at the hotel earlier and predi