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                      Here you will find more links and things to look at on the web.

                      Today we have a minclip showjumping game to fill those slow days at the       

                      office,(just make sure your sound is turned off or you'll get caught..!!).

                      WARNING This game will drive you nuts

                      You will need these plug-ins to run the game :

                          http://www.miniclip.com/games/en/requirements.php

                      Follow the link to make sure you can play, then follow the link below to start

                      the fun. Good Luck.

                         http://www.miniclip.com/games/show-jumping/en/

                      If you have problems running this game go to www.miniclip.com and

                      search their help pages. 

                      Also on this page we have the real rules of dressage, and I think that anyone that has ever ridden a test will relate to at least some of these...!!! 

We now have a new video  at the bottom of the page of a lovely Danish horse doing some advanced movements. I really need to win the lottery..!!! You will need Windows Media Player to view this video.

Also at the bottom of the page we have a new YouTube link of a super Freestyle Test...watch and enjoy..!!

How many horses does it take to change a lightbulb!!

Thoroughbred: Who ME?? Do WHAT? I'm scared of light bulbs! I'm outta here!

Arabian: I changed it an hour ago… C'mon you guys - catch up!

Quarter Horse: Put all the bulbs in a pen and tell me which one you want.

Standardbred: Oh for Pete's Sake, give me the damn bulb and let's be done with it.

Shetland: Give it to me. I'll kill it and we won't have to worry about it anymore.

Friesian: I would, but I can't see where I'm going from behind all this mane.

Belgian: Put the Shetland on my back, maybe he can reach it then.

Warmblood: Is the 2nd Level Instruction Packet in English? Doesn't anyone realize that I was sold for $75K as a yearling, but only because my hocks are bad, otherwise I would be worth $100K? I am NOT changing lightbulbs. Make the TB get back here and do it.

Morgan: Me! Me! Me! Pleeease let me! I wanna do it! I'm gonna do it! I know how, really I do! Just watch! I'll rewire the barn after, too.

Appaloosa: Ya'll are a bunch of losers. We don't need to change the lightbulb, I ain't scared of the dark. And someone make that damn Morgan stop jumping up and down before I double barrel him.

Haflinger: That thing I ate was a lightbulb?

Mustang: Lightbulb? Let's go on a trail ride, instead. And camp. Out in the open like REAL horses.

Lipizzaner: Hah, amateurs. I will change the lightbulb. Not only that, but I will do it while standing on my hind legs and balancing it on my nose, after which I will perform seven flying lead changes in a row and a capriole. Can you do that? Huh? Huh? Didn't think so.

Miniature: I bet you think I can't do it just cause I'm small. You know what that is? It's sizeism!

Akhal Teke: I will only change it if it's my owner's lightbulb and no one else has ever touched it.

Andalusian: I will delegate the changing of the lightbulb to my personal groom after he finishes shampooing my mane and cleaning my saddle, but only on the condition that it is changed for a soft blue or green bulb, which reflects better off my coat while I exhibit my astonishing gaits.

Cleveland Bay: I'm busy. Make the whipper-in and the hounds do it.

Saddlebred: My ears are up already, please please get the lightbulb away from me! I'm ready to show, really, I promise I'll win!

Paint: Put all the lightbulbs in a pen, tell me which one you want, and my owner will bet you twenty bucks I can get it before the quarter horse.

PBA: I'm not changing it. I'm the one who kicked the old one and broke it in the first place, remember? Now, excuse me, I have a grain room to break into.

Grade Horse: Guys? Um, guys? I hope you don't mind, but I went ahead and changed it while you were all arguing.
                  

The Real, True And Unexplainable Rules Of Dressage

1. If you really want to get better at dressage, take it up at an
    earlier age - and grow an extra 3 inches of leg.

2. A test that starts with an arrow straight centre line and a
    square halt signifies the start of a Hickstead Speed derby.

3. A dressage test is a test of your skill against another
    competitor's luck.

4. Dressage is about achieving a harmonious working relationship
    with your horse, whose only idea of harmony is eating grass in a
    field with his buddies.

5. If you want to end a drought or dry spell, wear a new jacket
    and Velvet hat to an outdoor arena.

6. Untalented, difficult, aggressive horses have robust health,
    good hocks and long lives.

7. Talented tractable horses are accident prone and have OCD lesions.

8. You will ride the best test of your entire life just prior to
     being disqualified for not wearing your gloves.

9. Never keep more than 300 separate thoughts in your head before a
    test.

10. Never keep less than another 300 separate thoughts in your
      head during a test.

11. Horses do not improve their paces because you are wearing
      expensive German breeches.

12. If you chose a disco theme for your dressage to music test
      then the judge will be more than 90 years of age and Swiss.

13. The less skilled the rider, the more likely they are to share
      their critique of your test.

14. If you are considering the services of a horse clairvoyant to
      help you with training then you have reached the point of total
      desperation - try the German breeches.

15. Your horse has never heard of Podhajsky let alone read the book.

16. No matter how badly you ride a test, it is always possible to
      ride a worse one.

17. If it ain't broke, try shifting your position and it will be.

18. Judges only suffer from temporary blindness (or kindness) when
      they are judging someone else's test.

20. If you fall off your horse in the arena you will have paid to
      have the test videoed.

21. If you are feeling confident before a show then three of the
      British dressage team will turn up to give their young horses some
      "experience."

22. Your horse will perform its best piaffe ever when you ask for
      extended canter.

23. Since runs of bad competitions come in groups of three, the
      fourth competition is actually the beginning of the next group of
      three.

24. No one cheats at dressage because no one has worked out how to do
      it.

25. It is surprisingly easy to end a test with a perfect square
      halt once you have scored a four for every other movement.

26. The result of an expensive lesson from a top pro is that you
      will stop believing in that tiny piece of innate ability that was
      holding your riding together.

27. Remember when buying a dressage horse advertised as "needs
      experienced competitive rider" this really means "needs the skills
     of Phillip Dutton just to stay on board."

28. If you think your test was better than someone elses, it
      probably wasn't.

29. If you pay 60,000 for an imported WB, you will be beaten in
      preli4 by a little coloured cob .

30. Clinics given by someone with an interesting accent are not
      necessarily superior to those given by the homeboy.

31. If you go to the expense of raising an expensive WB foal, he
     will have a talent for jumping and no walk worth talking about

                Below is a short video of a rather nice Danish horse that I found whilst "window shopping" on the net. For those of you that I have taught recently look how the rider can be straight without being "over tall", and note how firm he can keep his abdomen  without becoming stiff. Incidentally the horse's name is Mr Bean..!!

You will need Windows Media Player to view this video.

Fantastic Freestyle Test.

Check out this YouTube link of a super Freestyle test.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zKQgTiqhPbw