Jamie lee where are you from?

I'm from Manitoba, Canada. How about you?

I'm from Salmon Arm B.C. Looks like there are quite a few canadian's using this site now. That's cool!

Im from canada too! I live in Ontario

Looks like it! I found this site from an ad on facebook. Chances are, more Canadians will see it too and join up.

Ha! I'm from Alberta! My sister saw the ad on facebook and joined... so I did too.

My horse was bred in Manitoba! :P

I bought my horse in Manitoba! but i live 5 hours away from Winnipeg.. in Ontario.

Er...I've been to Canada.

;-)

But I live in Texas, and used to ride in shows in New England where I grew up. In central Texas where I live there's a big hunter/jumper community, which seems odd to a lot of people who equate Texas with Western riding. Plenty of that too, of course.

OUUU a canadian thread! i love it!! im from toronto

I live up in New England, but I tend to keep to the local shows- economys down, but the price of going to rated shows really isn't. : ]

Hey I am from Texas. I definitely understand the whole "do you do cutting?" attitude about Texas. Everyone thinks your a cowgirl and do barrel-racing. I jump and I'm in Pony Club. I grew up as a hunter, but have fallen in love with the Jumper world..... Never been to Canada tho :] sorry :}

seems like a lot of Canadians! (: I'm from just outside of guelph! im also quite new,

Hey, back. I would love to talk with another horsey person. x3

hi jacqueline and i know what you mean about the h/j community but to my canadian side i love hockey only it's not maple leaf's lol :) GO WINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fit it to a pattern. Group them by lines, or combinations and get a pattern in your head. "1st the red line, then the bent line with the roll-top, then the blue and maroon, etc." Other than that, I just watch other pairs do it unless I'm first. I'm a visual learner so patterns are best for me. But that may not be your style. If you learn by feel, walking the course is best for you; hearing: have your instructor say it for you as you look at it, then with your eyes closed. The best way to KNOW a course is to do all of these.

Congratulations! I hope he works out for you. He sounds like a good ride. Hope you two do well together. Good luck! : )

Hi Amanda,
I would start the seperation anxiety issues by seperating her turn out if possible. I would keep her away from the other horses for a while, or put her out with a horse who does not get attached. Then the bucking could be from some sort of pain with the saddle not fitting correctly etc. If that is not an issue, I would saddle her starting slowly, girthing her and walking. Then possibly turn her out for an hour or so with it, so she can get used to it on her own. Obviously make sure it is one you don't care about. You could start saddling and bridling her every time before you feed her, so she starts to relate the two. You are just going to have to go slow and trial and error what works for this mare, everyone is different! If you continue to have problems, I would go to a profesional and request their help with these issues!

I can not seperate the 3 of them. They are all in one pasture and that is all we have. The saddle fits, I already checked that and she doesnt mind having the saddle on her back or being saddled, it just seems to be when someone gets on her and tries to make her work. She looks to Lola for security.

Then maybe you could start with the other horse with her so she is comfortable. Once she is good with someone on her back you can start to ride her on her own. Other then seperation, I don't know any other good methods to help with being herd bound. Maybe someone else will have some ideas : )

try putting up a divider in your pasture and turning them out next to each other. as for the bucking have her back checked she may have thrown it out and she is just over-reacting to it! if it thrown out try some muscle builers to keap her back in place

Well, I would say if she's never been ridden, she may just have an independent spirit. Since you just started with new stuff for her at five years old, she may just be uncomfortable with something new. She looks to the herd for security and she does not consider you part of the herd, therefore, she could just be feeling insecure. A good way to solve this is go out with the horses and just be with them. Spend a lot of time doing familiar things with her until she trusts you more.

I believe, with hunters you are at a slower pace and they look at you and your horses form and how you go with your horse. With jumping its speed and accuracy where they look for fastes times to beat the clock and if you get any rails down. you can tell the difference with the appearances like hunters are usually in hunts coats and there is a fitted pad. Jumpers usually have square pads, although that is different everywhere. So thats the difference I think, if i'm wrong someone please correct it! :)

Nope, I think you are deffinitely correct! Hunters is all about form, jumpers is speed and accuracy. Normally larger jumps for the jumpers as well.

basically you win jumper classes with time and no faults, with hunter they can be very picky they usually dont like paints, they love bay and grey horses. But in jumpers ANY color is good! Jumpers is very fast paces and really fun!! There are more jumps in the jumper classes but you can do any height you want, sometimes there are classes where you can have jumps up to a certain height but with hunter they are all one height. Jumper jumps are flashy and hunter ones tend to be more "natural" and not crazy, the kind of "conservative" one of the two. Equitation(a flat class) is really the one that judges the rider more than the horse. It'll be fun doin different things though!! GOOD LUCK!

Jumpers is about speed and accuracy, that part is correct. Turn out does not matter as much in jumpers, though you should be clean and neat. Hunter divisions are judging the horse on how well it would do in a hunt field. How safe of a jumper it is, how well it covers ground and the general manner of the horse. You want a horse who is an attractive jumper, with good square knees and a good mover, with a nice ground covering trot. The hunter course is typically an outside to diagonal to outside with a singal thrown in there somewhere. The jumps are to look more like "natural objects" and the lines are designed for a certain number of strides. The jumper courses are more difficult and the jumps are meant to be more "scary". Those are the basics of the two diciplines.

They're protective. Leg wraps help protect and support the tendons and ligaments that run down the horse's legs. There is actually no muscle to a horse's legs from the knee down. Its all tendons and ligaments. They are smaller and thinner than muscle and are vital to the horse's ability to move and support itself. If these tendons or ligaments become injured or even worse, severed, a horse will become lame and if the injury is serious enough, may have to be humanely euthanized.

Hope that helps ya. : )

There are faux leathers out there. if it bothers you that much. But riding in a leather saddle shouldnt conflict you as a vegitarian, Its hard enough living as one , dont add another " cant do " on our list of things we wont eat or do, lol. Im also a vegitarian.

I don't think it's that big a deal. When the time comes to replace your tack, just buy sythetic. I really do want to be a vegetarian, but a large amount of my diet is meat- I don't eat much else, besides grain. I'm just too darn picky. : (