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24.01.2022 À 98 ans, Françoise Lory-Blancart monte encore à cheval. Elle est associée à Républicaine, une jument pur-sang de 22 ans qui appartient à Jean-Louis Hurel du Ha...ras de Malvoisine. À elles deux elles atteignent les 120 ans, un record ! Ce rendez-vous hebdomadaire avec Républicaine au Haras de Malvoisine de Françoise offre de beaux instants de complicité. See more

24.01.2022 Great advice from Ben Hart...

24.01.2022 There are kinetic chains in the musculature of the horse and rider that transmit muscle blockages from one end of the body to the other. Often they even cross o...ver from one side of the body to the other. In addition, there are similar chain reactions between horse and rider that transfer tension in the rider’s body to the horse. A muscle blockage in the throat latch, for instance, hinders the activity of the back and the free forward swing of the hind leg on the same side. Some horses suck back due to muscle blockages in the neck. In these cases, it is little helpful to drive the horse through, but you have to resolve the stiffness in the neck and poll first before the horse is even able to go forward correctly. Conversely, stiffness in the hind leg leads to a tight back and all kinds of bracing in the neck and poll, that negatively affect the rein contact. In these cases, it won’t work to try and supple the neck through bending rein aids, before the hind legs have been brought under the body and suppled. By the same token, any blockage in the rider’s body triggers bracing in the horse. Stiff rider’s hips cause the horse to brace his back and hindquarters. Stiff wrists cause blockages in the horse’s poll and around C5, which in turn interfere substantially with the activity of the back and hindquarters. There are many other examples. But what is important is that you follow these kinetic chains back to their point of origin, and to start the suppling work there. Otherwise, the training may get stuck. - Thomas Ritter Photo: Rita Fernandes

23.01.2022 Chazot travels with a long neck when we go out for a walk or when he rests after work. But the trunk is not down between the forelegs. He does not travel forwar...d down; he travels forward up. He carries himself. He does not overload his forelegs. He maintains efficient locomotion in the sense that the front legs travel within their range of efficiency. As they are not overloaded, the tendons, aponeurosis, fascia store, and reuse elastic energy. The elastic energy stored in and recovered from tendons during cyclical locomotion can reduce the metabolic cost of locomotion (Cavagna et al., 1977; Alexander, 1988; Roberts et al., 1997). If ask for an easy trot, he trots with the same long and free neck, but he bounces his trot. He reduces the metabolic cost of locomotion, storing and recovering the elastic energy store in his tendons, fascia, and aponeurosis. Ease is efficiency, and efficiency is elastic energy. Jean Luc See more

22.01.2022 Never heard this knot called that:) Always handy

22.01.2022 When I was a school kid I learned that gravity was the reason why things fell. I learned that they fell at a rate of 9.8 metres per second. Later I took an inte...rest in general relativity, which told me that my understanding of gravity was naïve and incomplete. Since then I took an interest in quantum gravity and dark gravity and how they shape our reality. An understanding of these phenomena (even a basic one) has opened my eyes to realities that I didn’t appreciate before. I see gravity in everything. When a toddler takes his first faltering steps, I see gravity. When I look up and see stars arcing across the heavens, I see gravity. When I sit on the beach and watch the ocean breathe in and out, I see gravity. When I look at the eucalyptus tree in our yard stretch its mangled limbs, I see gravity. It’s everywhere and I see it. But this insight and awareness did not come to me in a flash. It evolved as my understanding of gravity evolved. So it is with the way my understanding of horses and how they operate. As an example, let’s look at the concept that a horse’s behaviour is determined by its thought. I began hearing about a horse’s thoughts many years ago when I first began riding. But it came in the form of things like, watch out because that horse might bite you. That taught me to watch for when that horse was thinking about biting me. Much later, when I already had a long resume of success in competition, my ancient foreign friend told me why his yellow horse was friends with his brown horse but didn’t like his light brown horse. Their behaviour towards each other was linked to how they felt about each other. It inspired me to question if this explained why I got along better with some horses than others. Was it specifically about how I influenced their thoughts or were they just generally bad-tempered? Then I attended Ray Hunt clinics. Ray talked about getting to the horse’s feet through his mind. But consideration of the mind was almost an afterthought. It explains why so many of his students have missed the importance of the mind and replaced it with moving the feet. Up to this point, my understanding of the mind of a horse was basic and very much black and white and naïve. Then I happened across the idea of hard versus soft thoughts. A horse could have thoughts that caused bad behaviour because the thoughts were hard and negative. Alternatively, a horse could have soft thoughts that evoked soft behaviours and compliant responses. Then I met Harry Whitney. He helped put the ideas I had been playing around with into a more useful and clearer understanding. Harry showed me how the thoughts are in everything and how tightly bound they are to a horse’s emotions. Up until that point, nobody had talked about that. Harry also showed me how we can influence a horse’s thoughts by changing how he feels. He helped take the concept from pure theory to a practical approach that could help every horse. After much analysis and experimentation, I discovered all the talk about horse training being primarily about moving the feet was not the direction I wanted to go. Those ideas of moving the feet began to unravel in my mind and my work. The flaws became apparent. My grasp of a horse’s thought continues to evolve. And the way I implement those evolving ideas continues to change. So the concept of a horse having thoughts was on my mind before I met Harry. But Harry and many others have held my hand in refining my understanding and giving me ways to make it work in a way that is better than anything else I have tried. Now I see a horse’s thought in everything it does. I see changing those thoughts are the priority in everything I ask it to do. I see influencing a horse’s emotions as the key to changing its thoughts every time. It doesn’t matter what a horse is doing or what I want it to do. Like gravity, I see a horse's thoughts in everything. About 8 years ago, a very popular clinician told me directly that he didn’t have time to bother with what a horse was thinking. Recently I noticed he is bringing ideas about the importance of a horse’s thoughts into the conversation at his clinics, however, he is far from actually incorporating it into his work. But I don't give up hope that may come in time. This is true of every aspect of horsemanship. I believe our understanding of horses and training is mostly evolved from stuff we knew before. Like our knowledge, our understanding increases slowly and by stealth. Very little of what we learn comes to us as a sudden appearance. The only other thing I would like to add is the realization that understanding is not always linear. When we learn a principle, sometimes a deeper understanding of that principle requires we go back a step and adopt a different principle. Learning does not always entail forward progress with what we learned yesterday leading to what we learn today. I believe this is no different for our horses as it is for us. Photo: From a clinic in Maine, USA with Nikaline Iacono. I see a horse's thoughts, Nikaline's thoughts and I see gravity.

22.01.2022 This is great:)

21.01.2022 All round good guy willie Nelson celebrating the horse human connection..

19.01.2022 Only in downtown Longreach.

19.01.2022 A great description of the dressage basics foundations are always worth reviewing :)

18.01.2022 Some good stretches .. i passive stretch our two horses regularly. It’s a nice interaction Keep it floppy and loose and watch what’s going on with the three legs on the ground:)

15.01.2022 Sometimes life just works out... Spotted in King River, WA last night via ABC Great Southern

15.01.2022 To get straight you gotta get bendy

15.01.2022 nice connection here

14.01.2022 Submission, stimulus-response, release, stretching, are old days concepts. The physique is capable of coordination more sophisticated than previously believed a...nd the brain maps the body all at once, adjusting continuously to forces and needs. For the horse, as well as for the rider, greater efficiency resides in the refinement of the body schema. For every inch of forward head posture, it can increase the weight of the head on the spine by an additional 10 pounds. (Kapandji, I.A. 1974) The proper alignment of the cervicothoracic area is a detail with considerable repercussions on the rider’s balance, proprioception, and precision. There is not one cervicothoracic alignment that is optimum. As well as for the rider’s position. This is not a posture; it is subtle coordination of the whole physique that is proper to each individual. A good approach is riding in neutral balance over the seta bone with a soft and light contact with the horse’s mouth. Then, ask for balance using exclusively the cervical vertebrae. Advancing slightly the cervical vertebrae will change the whole alignment of the vertebral column including the pelvis placement. Explore the right tone and right alignment until the horse responds. The horse’s reaction will not be as obvious as when the dialogue involves the whole vertebral column, but the horse response will tell you when his perception of your physique increases. You know then which alignment of your cervical vertebrae enhances the efficiency of your vertebral column and associated muscles, tendons, fascia, and the refinement of your own perception. Progress is often limited by small details. The details have enormous importance but are difficult to discern because they are small details. Thinking as a whole it became easier to understand how small details can have considerable consequences on the integrity of our whole physique. Jean Luc

12.01.2022 A prayer for horsepeople

11.01.2022 Giving the boys a couple of hours this morning in there most favourite paddock:) Pretty green for mid December

11.01.2022 Follow Dreamy Ponies on Instagram.com/dreamyponies What a horse! // @hedincarl

11.01.2022 You can follow Erwin and Monique on the trail across Australia:)

11.01.2022 Great little overview of kissing spine

10.01.2022 THE HYOID Every muscle in the horse’s body is connected to the hyoid apparatus, a collection of small bones that form a Y shaped structure sitting between the c...heeks at the base of the skull. The hyoid is not connected to any other bones, it is held in place by ligaments alone. The base of the tongue is attached to the hyoid a horse that cannot move its tongue cannot move its body freely. The muscles of the ventral neck are attached to the hyoid tension here restricts shoulder movement and places strain on the TMJ interfering with balance and proprioception. The pelvic muscles are attached to the hyoid via the abdominal muscles and pectoralis muscles a horse with ventral muscle chain dysfunction cannot engage its hind limbs. Here’s Belinda on the subject: The Hyoid apparatus, TMJ and ventral chain functioning are often discussed in the online Masterclasses. This apparatus is incredibly fascinating because it is so delicate, and so interconnected. With the skull and hyoid bones pictured I demonstrate why we need to be so careful with the weight we place on the reins. We should always be aiming for contact that is only just feeling the tongue's movements because if we exert any additional pressure here, we begin to create problems. This structure is extremely breakable. Special thank you to Maike & Andrew Turnbull for helping me create this great visual with photos! #belindabolsenbroekacademy #horseanatomy #trainingforsoundness #classicalriding #classicalequitation

10.01.2022 A trip with my BUDDIES Do not look at Mella's face when she lays on the ground... you will melt *** www.featherlightacademy.com (new trainingvideos a...re published) Kingsley Riding Kingsley Footwear See more

09.01.2022 CHEW ON THIS! Did you know that a horse's saliva is key to buffering their highly acidic stomach? Saliva contains bicarbonate, which also helps protect the frag...ile amino acids provided by feed. Saliva is only produced when the horse is chewing, so how much they make, is determined by what goes in their mouth. Hay encourages the most chewing, with 2500 - 3500 chews/kg which can produce 20-30L of saliva in a day. Sweet feeds and grains only take between 350-500 chews/kg, and produce 12-14L of saliva. This is why having adequate hay and forage is important for gut health. Keep the quantity up, but let their body condition dictate the quality of the forage i.e. if they are overweight or have sensitivities, offer less nutritious forage. What's the take home message? Keeping horses chewing as much as possible on good chewy feeds, keeps the saliva flowing, and their stomachs going! #equinenutrition #guthealth Feed Your Steed

07.01.2022 one of the better articles on Nuno Oliveira and Bettina and Wendy are both very accomplished horsewoman

07.01.2022 Serenading beauty.

07.01.2022 Can you guess just by looking at these two feet which forelimb is dominant on this horse? The 1st picture is a Right front foot. The 2nd is a Left front foot. ...Every horse has a forelimb dominance or handedness and their entire body is shaped around this preference. This is influenced by a neurological system called the Stomatognathic System. It involves the TMJ, teeth and feet. Take a guess and the answer will be posted in the comments. Update and Answer: this horse is Rt forelimb dominant. Horses keep the dominant forelimb under the body for a longer period of time. (Bystrom, Clayton)They prefer to catch the trunk weight with the dominant leg. (Ridgway) Many people confuse the dominant leg with the lead leg in canter. A right handed horse will canter best to the left. And a left handed horse will canter best going to the right. Handedness seems to be innate. (Something that develops embryologically). It reflects the horses brain patterns and preference in processing input. They end up using the dominant side of their body in relation to the dominant side of the brain. Because the horse uses the two thoracic limbs differently, it causes differentiation of the two thoracic limbs in movement and morphology. The foot held under the body predominantly becomes more upright in angle. Not only on the exterior capsule but the pedal bone and soft tissue is affected as well. The two shoulders of the horse become different, as well as the teeth. Horses chew on the dominant side as well. This is why it’s so important to maintain the balance of your horses feet and teeth regularly. Negligence can cause the teeth and feet to become grossly distorted. And this impacts one of your horses primary balancing systems, the Stomatognathic System. More on the Stomatognathic System in an upcoming webinar. Thank you for participating!

06.01.2022 A beginning rider wants to work on intermediate horsemanship. An intermediate rider want to work on advanced horsemanship, but an advanced horseman works on the basics.A beginning rider wants to work on intermediate horsemanship. An intermediate rider want to work on advanced horsemanship, but an advanced horseman works on the basics.

05.01.2022 A warm, furry place to nap! Thanks to @facepaintingnorthland @silverseasstudio

04.01.2022 The hoof is the beginning/end of many myofascial lines. Poor position and orientation of the hoof will affect all the structures of an associated line. The line...s are so interconnected that this can mean the hoof can create dysfunction essentially anywhere in the body, however conversely, pathology along these lines can affect posture and therefore change loads on the hoof affecting morphology of the hoof. This is why farriers, vets and physios must work together in a holistic mindset. If the whole chain isn’t considered then interventions can often be futile. See more

04.01.2022 I bloody love how this little motion picture came to be in my possession. This was taken in 2018 by a random beach goer who had no idea who I was, I had no idea... who they were... in fact I didn't know they took it. They saw me the other night- 2 years later, on TV and connected the dots, and sent this to me asking if it was us?! So cool! A happy memory taken at our first ever calendar photo shoot for the 2019 Calendars. I sure do hope Sterly will be up to doing this again one day. See more

04.01.2022 Been seeing a fair bit heel high heel low ,,lately :/ It happens over time so important to keep an eye on ... The late Dr Kerry Ridgeway explains https://youtu.be/COk2ntaGzXg

03.01.2022 Knowing Towing - There has been quite a bit of activity on social media recently about the possible pitfalls in buying a horse float. Cameron McGann from Mansfi...eld Floats and Trailers has been offering some sound advice, so Horse Deals got in touch with him for a chat about what we should know about floats and towing. Head over to read the rest of the article from the July 2019 Issue on the Horse Deals News & Stories on the Horse Deals website: https://bit.ly/3kWHJlK

03.01.2022 Lazy, Resistant or Confused? "The moment you feel resistance while asking for lateral movement is the moment you should turn the movement into an easier exerci...se to restore the horse’s confidence and trust. If we make everything too quick, we confuse the horse, make him nervous. The thing I find all the time, is that nervousness creates tension and resistance. The horse struggles, hesitates or even refuses. His posture gets bad, he gets short through the neck. Or, he may respond too quickly because he is nervous and confused. A horse who does not respond in the right way or who hesitates is often called lazy. I call him lacking in understanding. We need to ask again, and we need to ask in the right way, clearly showing him how we want him to be calm and relaxed." Read more in our free, downloadable Beyond Lateral Work" article which you can find here: https://www.manolomendezdressage.com//articles-by-manolo-/ Repost from 2012

03.01.2022 EQUINE BACK MOTION A lot of people have been asking on the earlier saddle post today about how much the horses back moves during exercise. There are a fair numb...er of papers now published on this but visuals are always good. Here is a short video of a horse walking and trotting on a treadmill viewed from above with painted markers along the spine and IMU's (orange) to record motion. Replayed at half normal speed Copyright Dr David Marlin 2020.

02.01.2022 Bill Abbott captured amazing video of wild horses during sunrise at Assateague Island National Park.