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training
Horseshoe Lake CEI Challenge ride
What a wild ride that one was!! The Endurance Riders of Alberta held the Horseshoe Lake ride as a FEI/CEI 3* 160 km ride, as well as other distances. Darginka and I did the 25 mile (40 km) ride both days and Steven was our driver and groom extraordinaire! I didn’t take any photos, although [...]
Beauty Contest III
Here are some photos of the “half time” entertainment during the Beauty Contest. Drill Team: Roman Riding:
Hippodrome – backstretch
There wasn’t much going on at the track as it was the middle of the day. Again, as seems typical for the Turkmen people, there were lots of smiles and everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves with the horses. Also, the horses were all very well behaved and calm. Most of the riders were exercise [...]
Cavalia!
The Ball: Faical Moulid and Iman La Vida: Thomas Aubron & Julien Beaugnon (riders) Andreanne Nadeau & Jennifer Lecuyer (aerialists), Edros & Igor (horses) Le Miroir: Tatiana Daviaud & Elise Verdoncq on Pirata & Zatcho Roman Riding: Fairland Furguson on Amaretto & Criollo, Thomas Aubron (?) on Spirit & Tori Grande Liberte: Sylvia Zerbini with [...]
Cavalia – Roman Riding
Cavalia: Fairland Ferguson rides Criollo (who is a Criollo), the buckskin, and Amaretto (chestnut Quarter Horse), in a Roman Riding demonstration. Fairland is a great performer full of infectious enthusiasm with the horses. She stated that Roman Riding used to be known as the Polish Post. In Poland it became imperative to have a faster [...]
Cavalia – liberty demonstration
The horses go from right off the truck into the ring to give a short performance for media. Sylvia Zerbini gently lets them express themselves and play while asking them for a performance. Someone asked if Sylvia was a “horse whisperer” and the response was that she doesn’t really like that term and is more [...]
Cavalia comes to Vancouver!
Normand Latourelle, the Artistic Director of Cavalia and co-founder of Cirque du Soleil, awaiting the arrival of the horses in Vancouver for this highly acclaimed equestrian spectacle (that is also the world’s largest traveling show): I was lucky enough to be invited to the arrival of Cavalia in Vancouver and had the great privilege of [...]
HCBC Conference 2011
The Horse Council of British Columbia put on their first educational conference to great success. It was held at the beautiful Delta resort hotel in Kelowna, BC. I enjoyed these lectures: 1. Hilary Clayton: Equine Biomechanics Research at the Mary Anne McPhail Equine Performance Center is finding that spinal lesions are very common in horses [...]
breaking Davinia
Here is Erin breaking Davinia. She didn’t seem to mind much. Rocky stood by and supervised. We had the saddle on Davinia a couple days ago with no reaction so we decided to try mounting her. The idea came from Tatyana who was very surprised that no one had Tekes trained to saddle who were [...]
training is well underway!
Akpai is for sale and these last couple weeks a couple people have looked at her. She has the easiest temperament of the mares for riding and is the smoothest with the nicest strides: Pagoda is the surprise for riding. I had given up on her as a sound riding horse after all her sickness [...]
training begins
All the horses are now started under saddle. Akpay is very smooth with great gaits, Pagoda really seems to love being ridden, Darginka isn’t sure she wants to give up control yet and Davinia just loves any attention!
Akhal-Teke videos V: dressage
Akhal-Tekes seem to have the most amazing movement. Here are some YouTube videos of Akhal-Tekes doing dressage, including two historical videos, one with Absent footage, and clips of Grom and Lakmus. Please comment if you know the other horses!
Pan Tau and Horse Around Days
I am dismayed and upset by the reaction of the community to the images of Pan Tau posted previously. The images in no way reflect the character or the training of Pan Tau. (The photos on this header are from AkhalTeke.cc)
Horse Lovers Blog Carnival
Welcome to the July 25th 2007 Edition of the Horse Lovers Blog Carnival!
Equine Videos on the WWW
Videos from UTube and other web sources with cool horse content, including a Russian TV show about Akhal-Tekes, Mongolian horse racing, dressage, jumping, vaulting, and training…
Emma and Darginka
Darginka and Emma are learning together and both have bonded with each other…
To bit or not to bit?
Darginka is doing very well in training, except that she really hates the bit. I think she needs to learn to accept it for training, but do we really need to ride with it? Here I go to find opinions on bits on the internet…
Week 3 & 4 training, by Drew & Emma too!
Darginka’s training is going really well. Drew was sick for a week so Emma took over. Darginka now comes running to greet us and is becoming very personable. She is such a sweet horse, we couldn’t have chosen better for personality!
a walk, training week 2, more ponies and a llama
Our entire family have gone for a couple of nice walks on the dike in between storms. Darginka is coming along well and certainly getting more energy! Drew is working well with her. Emma loves to go to the pony pen and watch the little ponies. I’m still waiting for that llama to spit on us!
Training begins! (and some pony fun)
I think I’ve lucked out with our trainer Drew. He is calm and thorough and isn’t rushing the training. His biggest problem seems to be that I have trained Darginka to come in to me and follow me and now Drew has to teach her to go out to lunge. She doesn’t get the circling [...]
