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winter STINKS!
« on: December 17, 2008, 02:56:45 PM »
For the first time in years, we are having an ugly winter here in NW Indiana, and I am without the use of an indoor arena - previous bad winters I had the use of an arena.  Other winters the ground never really froze solid.  Anyone have any suggestions on the best books/videos on ground work that I can be doing?  I'd like to learn to get my mare to do shoulder-in and half-pass in long lines like the Lipizans, for one.  I'm trying to come up with the most possible work the critters can do on frozen ground so we won't lose training ground, and also not batter legs and feet.  It's a major frustration to me as winter is when I have the most time to ride.

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Re: winter STINKS!
« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2008, 09:19:20 PM »
No suggestions, but you have my sympathies.  My work area is frozen mud ripples at the moment, too.  Hopefully 2009 is the year of actual, honest-to-God FOOTING, albeit outdoor. 
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Re: winter STINKS!
« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2008, 01:58:03 PM »
Hey even here in the usually just wet Northwest we have snow and frozen ground. My two young ones had their faces all frosted this morning playing in the unusual white stuff. I'm hauling hot water this week as we don't usually have to have heated water buckets so I am feeling your pain!
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« Reply #3 on: December 20, 2008, 09:21:59 PM »
I can sympathize with you and winter. Here in Quebec, we have solid ice under fallen snow. All our horses went tea over kettle in the paddocks last week so we had to bring them in until it was safer for them to go out and it was 4 days of being in the box stalls until we felt it was ok for them to go (not without being let loose in the arena for a fews bucks before going out).
Check out the book (there is a dvd as well) called: SCHOOLING HORSES IN HAND
A Means of Suppling and Collection
by Richard Hinrichs
(you may find this reading or video interesting)
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Confinement, or restriction of movement of any kind, is contrary to the horse's nature - after all, he is a creature who is used to running free, moving at will and who equates restriction of any kind to danger.
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