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Googong Equestrian

Locality: Googong

Address: 960 Old Cooma Rd 2620 Googong, NSW, Australia

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23.01.2022 What is the difference between bend and flexion? How much should a horse be bent and flexed on a circle? Can you explain these things to your students?

21.01.2022 All these beautiful guys ready for their lessons!

21.01.2022 Horses had some dental work today. Horses develop sharp edges on their teeth that need to be filed flat so they can chew there food more efficiently and to ensure that the bit in their mouth when they are ridden is comfortable. We need to check their teeth every year.

21.01.2022 How to hold your line

19.01.2022 Worth a listen.

19.01.2022 Today, we're re-sharing this interesting research from Dr David Marlin _______ HOW TO KEEP YOUR HORSE COOL IN THE HEAT!... SHEET OR NO SHEET? BLACK OR WHITE? WET OR DRY? I get asked these sort of questions a lot. Some horses have to have rugs on because of flies. So is it better to wet it down or not? What about dark horses? Do they get hotter? Here is a very simple demonstration. In physics and thermoregulation we use 15cm/6in diameter copper spheres painted black to approximate how the body reacts to air temperature and radiation from the sun. Inside the middle of each sphere is a temperature probe and this is connected to a datalogger. Each sphere is calibrated and "naked" they all behave the same. These spheres are the type used in the WBGT Index which we use to manage major events. The IOC use this for both human athletes and horses. So this is what I did to each sphere 1) Left uncovered 2) Covered with WET WHITE cotton 3) Covered with WET BLACK cotton 4) Covered with DRY WHITE cotton 5) Covered with DRY BLACK cotton The conditions when I was doing this were 36-37C and 24-27 %RH with a naked globe temperature of around 52C. RESULTS DRY WHITE cotton keeps the sphere ~2-3C COOLER than the naked sphere DRY BLACK cotton keeps the sphere 3-4C WARMER WET WHITE & WET BLACK cotton drop the temperature by around 25C (due to evaporation of water) over the first 20 min. WET WHITE is better over 60 min than WET BLACK. At 60 min WET WHITE is still around 10C cooler than the naked sphere. RECOMMENDATIONS To keep your horse cool on hot days, don't use a sheet/rug at all. Spray your horse down every few hours. If you have to use a sheet, ideally use a WHITE or light coloured lightweight sheet and wet it every 60-90 minutes during the hotter part of the day. https://www.facebook.com/233421046862124/posts/1427276360809914/?d=n

19.01.2022 http:// Friday Fact - Using Pressure // We have previously mentioned that because we ride horses in direct contact with their bodies and because we use pressure on t...he mouth (or in the case of the bitless bridle, head), and from the rider's legs and seat to train horses, negative reinforcement is unavoidable. So it is our responsibility to train this as efficiently as possible and to avoid the use of strong pressures. Constant strong pressure is very damaging to the horse's health and wellbeing. The transformation of pressure to very light aids is, therefore, our first responsibility. Our legs and reins provide the pressures for training forward, sideways, slowing and turning responses. The first steps are to shrink these pressures to light signal versions of each pressure. So strong leg aids transform to light leg aids and rein pressures transform to light rein aids, and so on. When the aids are light, the horse is sufficiently mentally calm that he also notices accompanying seat, posture or other cues. If these cues come at the right moment (i.e., just before the light pressure aids), the horse learns them by classical conditioning. (Excerpt from the book 'Academic Horse Training', p. 36)

16.01.2022 There are many more than 2 but here's a couple to get you started

16.01.2022 The fascinating HYOID apparatus! Read about its influence on welfare and performance - and check out Horses and People's anatomical illustrations! Click on this... link to read in full: https://horsesandpeople.com.au/the-hype-about-the-hyoid/ With Dr Lesley Goff #horsesandpeople #horsewelfare #ethicalequitation See more

15.01.2022 Equestrian Trails Map ... For many years ACTEA has wrestled with the desire to create a map of equestrian trails in the ACT. In the beginning the limiting facto...r was the inability to update paper-based maps in any sort of useful time frame. The development of electronic mapping capacity within government agencies has given this project a big boost and over the last 4 years ACTEA has been working with Roads ACT and ,more recently,City Services to create an interactive map, similar to those created for cyclists. The Equestrian Trails Map includes some general information about horse riding in the ACT plus signed routes, including those trails within Canberra Nature Park, local routes and the Bicentennial National Trail. The map also includes government horse holding paddocks. The map has other uses as a way to educate government agencies, contractors and consultants about where horse riding occurs in the Territory. At the moment we don't have the capacity to indicate temporary trail interruptions but we are working on that. In the meantime such closures will continue to be advertised in the usual way, on the website and through the ACTEA Affiliates mailing list. The map has been created by using 50 years of accumulated ACTEA knowledge, picking the brains of experienced local riders, including the ACT Endurance Riders Association, and using ACT Parks & Conservation maps. For the present the map can be found on the City Services website (https://www.cityservices.act.gov.au/) by following the links to Pets and Wildlife Domestic Animals Horses (https://www.cityservices.act.gov.au//domestic-anima/horses) ACTEA is hopeful this map will encourage people to get out and about on their horses we need to be seen to be believed. If you would like to ride out but need company there are several groups that exist to do just that: Casual Trail Riders Queanbeyan and Surrounds Facebook Monaro Horse Trekkers Inc (http://athra.com.au//23-monaro-monaro-horse-trekkers-inc.h) Tinderry Trail Horse Riders (http://athra.com.au//34-tinderry-tinderry-trail-horse-ride) While Monaro and Tinderry club rides are members only, you can sign up for a day membership to try. If there are other unofficial riding groups ACTEA will consider adding them to this list. We invite everyone who rides a horse in the ACT to have a look at the map and give us feedback at [email protected]. We are interested to hear how easy you find the map to navigate, if the information provided is useful or otherwise, if you have found errors or confusions and how it operates on your mobile device. Christine Lawrence President ACT Equestrian Association See more

13.01.2022 Of the many old sayings that have to do with riding, this is one of the most valuable, if we are smart enough to follow its wisdom--- "The old riders make the y...oung horses. The old horses make the young riders." Old and young mean experienced and inexperienced, more than they mean chronological age. An experienced rider knows how to train quietly and properly, so that the horse which is the product of that schooling is then able to calmly and quietly show the ropes to the inexperienced rider, in ways that let the young or green rider gain confidence and mileage. When this is done in reverse, it can create a messed up horse and a messed up rider, so tack this little quote right up there on your refrigerator next to the boldness quote from Jack LeGoff, so you will see them both every day. Together, they sum up much of training of both rider and horse. Again, if we have the common sense to follow the advice---

11.01.2022 **The following post shows images of an equine stomach post mortem. ** STOMACH SIZE I get asked all the time about feed and all manner of horse care topics. Alo...ng with all of the usual discussions about type of feed for particular horses, weights of feed etc... there is the topic of HOW MUCH to feed. How many dippers of chaff, how full should the 20litre bucket be, 1 feed per day or two??? Through the amazing process of dissections we have been involved in, we always look at the stomach. Sometimes finding ulcers or bots and varying degrees of health of the stomach lining. One thing I’ve noticed is that the larger horses of mixed breed (say between 14-17hh) is that the stomach size doesn’t vary all that much. Horses are grazing animals, we know this. Horses do well on smaller feeds more often, we also know this. A lot of people struggle to truly grasp this until they see it or it is explained thoroughly enough for them to fully understand from an anatomy perspective. Here I will show you a stomach (approx 15.2hh tb mare) she had had a normal breakfast but also a big special bucket of carrots and apples right before being laid to rest (not her daily feed, just a one off treat bucket) and then the contents of that stomach in relation to a very average sized 15 litre tub. I will also show you the absolute MAXIMUM sized feed I would ever feed a horse of that size. There are plenty of great articles around that talk about overflow of undigested feed into the hindgut and the subsequent problems, feed sizes and ulcers, gut health in all forms but I’m not here to talk about that. I am simply sharing in order to give the average horse owner a deeper understanding of the relative lack of size of the average sized horses stomach ** This post is not about what to feed or even how often. That will be very specific to each horse, it’s environment and situation. Please seek advice from your trusted equine veterinarian or independent nutritionist. ** Dissection with thanks and in conjunction with Southern Holistic Equine & Ev’s Equine Services

11.01.2022 MUST build this

08.01.2022 http:// Friday Fact - Train The Basics Effectively Under Saddle // To train the basics effectively under-saddle, the rider must be balanced and relaxed with an indep...endent seat, that is a seat that does not rely on the reins or stirrups for stability in any gait: sitting or rising. Riding position should be monitored and improved consistently throughout the training. When a horse has clear basics, it is easier for the rider to find his balance because the horse is in 'self-carriage', that is, the horse's speed, line and outline (head, neck and body posture) are self-maintained. As a minimum requirement, the rider should be able to ride circles and lines in rising trot and canter on a loose/long rein. This ensures that the reins are not required for balance. In particular, an inexperienced rider with an inexperienced or difficult horse can spell trouble and is a combination that should not proceed in training without constant, expert help. An experienced, well-trained horse is an important investment for an inexperienced rider. (Excerpt from the book 'Academic Horse Training', p. 9)

08.01.2022 Queanbeyan Pony Club Open Day this Sunday at Queanbeyan Showground Riders aged between 3 and 25 years are welcome to bring their pony along for a come and try ...day please email [email protected] for information of how to join us on Sunday You don't have a pony but keen to come along and see what pony club is all about please join us from 10 am for some unmounted / on foot horsey fun (covered foot wear required please) sorry no pony rides possible See more

06.01.2022 This all the way! #roadtosuccess #plumcreekhollowfarm #rightmindset #youcandoit

04.01.2022 Isaac Newton’s third law of motion states that for every force applied there is an equal and opposite reaction. When discussing biomechanics this concept becom...es more complex as the horse’s body can be distorted temporarily by the forces applied by reins and gadgets along with its will. This is why no matter what you use the likelyhood that the horse is opposing to it in some way and therefore using his muscles in ways we don’t intend is basically a certainty. This is why I have personally ceased many years ago to use any kind of restraint to impose on the horse a certain posture. We are not in times of war, we have the privilege to have enough time to spend on our athletes to ensure correct posture and gymnastics and should know better by now than pulling their head in and down. There is nothing that can’t be done without these tools and as the saying goes, a good enough rider that could use them properly, doesn’t need them. Edit: Please note the action doesn’t describe the ideal, philosophical action of the tool which is how we are taught or how they should be used but what it actually does when placed on a horse that needs it and therefore OPPOSES. A horse that submits to the tool will have BRACING but not the red opposition arrows. Still the muscular contraction will remain incorrect.