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I joined a new forum - D board this week. We were part of a stampeed that left the old broken forum at country supply- horse.com. Our link is  Baywind Farm.http://www.baywindfarm.com/forum/Come and visit sometime. Over 200 active ueser stampeeded from the broken board to the new home,  leaving 30 or so of our friends behind. This new forum is awsome- best horse D board on the net I have found. We have a room for groups, a place to downlaod our picts from our computer and many awesome bells an whistles. Come on over to our campfire.

This summer I did chorus, went on one trail ride with the Nez Perce, and found a new forum. Also I kept putting that slow basic handle on my reining horses. I really wanted to go to a Les Vogt clinic or two in Yackama but had to count my pennies. Yesterday I bought groceries and said my -my how things change. Our dollar today is worth about 50 cents or so now. I wonder if I will be able to buy hay for my 9 ponies next year? I think about cutting my herd, but can’t figure on who to let go. They are all treasures, and none can be replaced. Happy Trails.

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      My son learned how to jump out of airplanes recently. He had 2 people jump with him so he would learn how to fall. We must learn how to fall so we land correctly.  This applies to life. It applies to horse training too. Lerning how to fall is a very important lesson. We all fall. We make mistakes. Storms hit in life too that flatten us. Fall correctly and land right.  Some unwritten rule in horsemanship I learned many years ago was when you fall off- get back on. I learned the same rule in a church once; when you fail get back up. We all fail. Not all of us get back up.  Is this topic about jumping or falling? Is the glass half empty, or is it half full? It is both. Attitude is everything.  Happy trails.     

I once read about a big Florida trainer who got burned out upper level dressage horses and taught them reining. The burned out reiners he taught dressage. So I began a quest. How do reiners train? What is dressage?  

   I learned about half halts in dressage and feeling the feet for timing the aids or cues this week on a dressage forum. Someone on the forum recommended Dorrence’s book- Horsemanship through Feel.   These two things I may work on all winter to get them from the brain to the ground- or horse.  Today I have been reading mugs blog. She is a delightful reining horse trainer in Colorado.   I went to this reiners blog- and she recommened 2 dressage books. LOL.

Now I am rereading Henry Wynmalen from a reining perspective. I went back to April when she started her blog- I am hooked on mugs. She has heart.

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