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Published: 2010-03-02 20:37:38 +0000 UTC; Views: 1388; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 0
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They performed their own Pas de Deux when turned out for the live cover. I have a sneaking suspicion this is going to be a Dressage baby!Breeding pic for *kalmakoira 's Blue Eyed Bandit [link] and my own Family Tradition [link]
Yup, were back to building up our Spanish Mustang herd again. And we are so excited for this baby!
Art and Family Tradition (c)
Blue Eyed Bandit (c)
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It's pretty!
What do ya mean by being late with my comments?
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LOL! Thanks! 
Fashionably late right? Ya gotta know how to make an entrance!
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Gah, one sexy pair! They make my heart pitter-patter!
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Thanks! I've wanted to breed a mare to Blue Eyed Bandit for a LONG time, now I need to get the foal done!
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Can't wait to see. She's such a beauty!!
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Me either! Got to finish the Mule Adoptables though...
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Yeah true. I think we'll wait
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Have you seen her!?
[link]
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Oh cool, I was just working on my new spanish mustang, can't wait to register it, and I love this breeding!
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Thank you 
Can't wait to see yours!
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He seems like a nice horse, I like Crash Boom Bang too, he's cool! I gotta do all my prize pics for the RACE day first, one down 11 to go
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Jimmy Crickets! Good luck with all those pics!
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Gotta love Spanish 'Stangs, I finally came up with a name for my soon to be stallion, PS Confectionary Ingenuity
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LOL
Were you watching "Good Eats"... Altons my favorite!
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Ha I'm in class right now, didn't have time to eat this morning and my stomach just growled so loud the whole class heard! I said, 'I'm a little hungry'
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Hahah! I need to eat breakfast... you just made me really hungry!
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Oh uh, been meaning to ask you a question for a while, since you know so much about horses, alright here goes;
So about three years ago I worked voluntarily at a horse stable, almost all of them were quarter horses but there was this lovely liver chestnut mare, pretty tall for a QH, her name escapes me. But one day while I was grooming her I overheard the owners of the stables saying something about her "ignorant" rider. I inquired and they pulled me aside so I could see the horse straight from the front and they said her rider was right handed. One side of the horse was sunken in with stringy muscles while the other was bulked up and bulging out. I didn't think much of it so they demonstrated. After saddling her up I got to see her trot in the dressage ring and she kept stumbling, poor dear. They also said the uneven weight may cause laminitus. How would "right handed" riding cause something like this?
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It's less "Right Handed" and more "uneven riding"
If a rider is MUCH stronger on one side than the other, they most likely will go one direction more than the other. A horse uses their two sides differently when going a determined direction (like on a circle), specially when ridden dressage. The outside of the horse is stretched and physically longer than the inside, in turn the inside hind leg must carry more weight. A rider who is much stronger with one side than the other, will also often keep the horse bent to their stronger side. On top of that, a rider who is so much stronger on one side, will often ride "crooked" where their body and weight is actually crooked on top of the horse. where the idea behind most riding is to ride the horse "straight" (mainly balanced) if the rider is crooked, the horse cannot be straight, and the balance is compromised. When the horse isn't balanced, one side will have to work harder then the other, causing the incongruity in the muscles you were seeing.
I don't know that I would call the rider ignorant though. If she's working with a trainer, the trainer needs to help her learn to straighten up and balance the horse. We all have a dominate side, but when riding we need to work as best we can to ride the horse evenly, straight, and balanced.
It's funny you asked this, cause I'm actually fighting with this issue on my own horse. When I left for college, I leased him to a girl who claimed to be a "Prix St. George" level dressage rider. I found out that a trainer had just sat her on a School Master, and she didn't actually know what she was doing. My horse has always had balance issues on his own, and I have to work to help him stay straight and balanced while riding so he works evenly. She however just sat on top of him, and didn't understand she needed to use her body to make him straight. He's now muscled up the way this chestnut mare is, and we're having soundness issues.
Which brings up another point. It may not just be the rider. the horse may have conformation, soundness, or gait issues that may have started the unevenness.
Alright, now I feel like I'm rambling, I hope you could make sense of some of that...
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Ah ok that makes much more sense. I didn't really like the people of that stable, which is why I quit. They called the rider ignorant, stupid, irresponsible and had the same view of an owner that had a 30 year old arab gelding boarded there. I could hardly tell he was an arab because he was so under weight. Supposedly the owner had him on "hot feed" not knowing it would make him over weight, cute fat little arab running around, turns into emaciated downed older horse with laminitis. He recovered from the laminitis but the owner also never had his teeth floated and that was way he was underweight, poor fella 
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That's too bad. I really hate people like that... New Yorkers need to stay out of the horse business...
Glad some of my rambling made sense though! 
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Sometimes NY breeds good horses, was it Smarty Jones or Funny Cide that was NY bred?
I think it was FC cuz wasn't SJ Pennsylvanian?
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I have no clue... but race horses are completely different than other horses haha! THey can stay in the race business... but stay out of normal horse business...
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Ah ok
I've never known a nice New Yorker
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You've been featured in the third issue of the HARPG Newsletter!
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I love the idea for this 
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Thank you! I've been wanting to breed to Blue Eyed Bandit, before he was Blue Eyed Bandit!
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