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CALIDO ! Mit Glockenschlag bewundernswerte 30 Jahre alt und untrennbar verbunden mit seinem Entdecker und Förderer Maas J. Hell. Zwei Urgesteine, die wohl ohn...e zu übertreiben maßgeblich am heutigen, weltweiten Erfolg des Holsteiner Pferdes beteiligt sind. Calido, der sich u.a. für mehr als 70 gekörte Söhne und ca.300 bis zur schweren Klasse erfolgreichen Nachkommen auszeichnet und... M.J. Hell, der leider 1997 mit 63 Jahren viel zu früh verstarb. Ohne ihn wären uns wohl neben dem oben erwähnten, Stempelhengste wie Ahorn, Accord II, Acorado oder aber der Weltvererber Corde la Bry'ere vorenthalten geblieben. Hochwertige Vollblüter wie Exorbitant xx, Mytens xx oder der in der Hannoverschen Zucht wohl einzigartige Lauries Crusador xx wären ohne die Weitsicht dieses hervorragenden Hippologen, dessen messerscharfen Kommentar stets den Kern traf, unentdeckt geblieben! Möge der eisenharte Calido seinem jetzigen Besitzer Herrn Herbert Ulonska noch viele glückliche Jahre auf dieser renommierten Station bescheren.

Re-Training the Dressage Horse: Praise Even the Smallest Steps Generously

At the young age of 15, Michael Page boarded the SS Liberte to England with just a suitcase, a saddle and words of encouragement from his father to pursue his l...ove of horses and riding. Learn more about one of this year's USHJA Lifetime Achievement Award winners, Michael Page, and his incredible equestrian career that spans multiple decades, disciplines and continents. Congratulations, Michael! See more

Jean Bemelmans talks about contract and lightness: Lightness sounds very good, if it is light, it is better. But not too light, because a horse that is too lig...ht in the hand is more difficult to ride than a horse that is a little bit heavy on the hand. Okay we always have to talk about finding the right balance, but in the end, contact is nothing more than the contact to the hind leg, the contact that the rider makes between the mouth and the hind leg. This is the duty of the rider, to put these two together. The moment the horse starts to move, and he moves behind, you have to feel it in your hand, then you have to let it out. https://www.horsemagazine.com//contact-and-lightness-with/ See more

Hannoveraner Pferdezucht um 1939....

Super article about the breeding information here for the Medal Maclay horses in America written by Bethanne Bort. I passed on the information on suggestions t...o USEF. Would be ineresting to hear any other thoughts/discussions on this. I know we've made lots of changes, but lots to go. We so need our riders and owners to record the breeding and breeder data with the USEF, shows and anywhere possible, along with any article on horses reporting the breeding information. See more

"In the tradition of the old Spanish Riding School, three repetitions of the same exercise were defined as a reprise. That is a good structuring device, because... you start to see a trend after three repetitions. The horse's gait and posture will either improve or deteriorate. If you ride something once, the outcome could be a coincidence. If you get the same result three times in a row, it's a pattern. If there is no improvement within the first three attempts, it's unlikely that things will get better during the next hundred repetitions. Therefore, you should then modify the aids or the exercise, or in extreme cases abandon the exercise completely for the time being. After the first reprise, you change direction and ride a reprise on the other rein. Then you compare in which direction the exercise was more difficult for the horse, and in which direction it benefited the horse more. In the past it was customary to ride a third reprise in the more difficult direction. This protocol prevents mindless drilling and thoughtlessly repeating the same mistake over and over." (Thomas Ritter) Painting: Ludwig Koch See more

50 years ago... Olympic dressage rider Josef Neckermann (Rome 1960) - looks pretty old fashioned nowadays. Commentator then talked about cooperation, harmony, lightness and art...

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Con 205 huesos y 700 músculos, el modelo anatómico del equino es todo un reto para los estudiantes de medicina veterinaria. Gillian Higgins incorporo esta nove...dosa idea para representar la anatomía del equino de una manera pasiva para la salud, usando tan solo pinturas hipoalergénicas a base de agua que son fácilmente de remover después de la práctica, facilitando así el aprendizaje en los nuevos estudiantes de veterinaria. Una novedosa manera de enseñar anatomía veterinaria. Acción Veterinaria #SomosAcciónVeterinaria #Medicina #Veterinaria

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Een goede voetas is essentieel voor een goed bewegend paard en werkt preventief om blessures te voorkomen. Hoefsmeden Kees Alblas en Daniel Planas vertellen hoe... je dit kunt evalueren. A good hoof pastern axis is vital for a well moving horse and helps prevent injuries from occuring. Farriers Kees Alblas and Daniel Planas tell how to evaluate the horses hoof pastern axis in this video. Kijk voor meer vlogs op www.sporthorsemdc.com/vlog

The spinal column extends from the back of the head to the tip of the tail. Each bone has a small joint allowing flexible movement. When the head comes up it i...s natural for the back to drop down unless the core muscles have been strengthened correctly. This is the process of teaching the horse to collect without the back dipping down thus maintaining strength throughout the body under a rider and protecting joints for long term health. Sign up for the LIVE MONTHLY EQUINE ANATOMY SEMINARS to learn more about equine anatomy in sculpture. https://www.deannamontero.com/live-monthly-equine-anatomy-s . . . . . . #sculptureanatomy #sculpturequineanatomy #theraecollection #deannamontero #equinepractitioner #equineart #horseart #equineanatomy #horsesinart #equinetherapist #horsewellness #learnanatomy #clayanatomy #horseanatomy #equinedevelopment #equinemassage #ilovehorses #horsegirl #equinemassage #drawinghorses #drawinganatomy #equinevetrinarian #equineosteology #equinemovement #equinespinalcolumn

The same Physics I’ve been preaching for years as a farrier

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FAILED VETTING ??? Flexion Tests??? 100% worth a read! You’ve decided to sell your horse and the potential buyer has sent a veterinarian to your stables to pe...rform a pre-purchase exam. Or, you’re the buyer, and you’re excited to complete your purchase. As you stand, beaming with satisfaction, the veterinarian picks up the horse’s left front leg. Bending it at the fetlock, he or she holds it in the air for 60 seconds or so, releases the limb, and asks that the horse be immediately jogged down the drive. In astonishment, you watch as the horse that you’ve known or hoped to be sound moves off with an obvious bob of the head. He’s most decidedly lame after the test. What happened? What does it mean? What you have witnessed is a phenomenon not necessarily of the veterinarian’s creation, but something that can sometimes occur following a procedure called a forelimb flexion test. In a forelimb flexion test, various joints and soft tissue structures of the lower limb are stretched and/or compressed for a brief period of time by bending the limb. Afterward, the horse is immediately trotted off and observed for signs of lameness. Simple, really. But it gets messy. Forelimb flexion tests were described in Swedish veterinary literature as early as 1923. And, since then, they’ve become something of an integral part of the evaluation of the lame horse. But not only that, forelimb flexion tests are generally routinely included in prepurchase evaluations of horses intended for sale. The test is not unlike what you might experience if someone asked you to sit in a crouch for sixty seconds and then run right off. Usually and especially if you’ve never had knee problems you can run off just fine, particularly after a couple of steps. If you’ve never had a problem, chances are that you’re fine, no matter what happens in those first couple of steps. But very occasionally, that stiffness and soreness that you might feel could signal a problem (such as a bad knee). This test used to make me nuts, and to some extent, it still does. That’s because I’m often not to sure what to make of the state of things when a horse takes some bad steps after a flexion test. I mean, I know I might not pass such a test. So who’s to say that every horse should? Because of that question, back in 1997, I did I study. It’s still timely. In my study, I looked at fifty horses (100 legs) of various breeds, ages, sex, and occupation. The owners were gracious enough to let me explore my curiosity about forelimb flexion tests. The horses were from my practice, an included a wide variety of pleasure and performance horses including some world class jumping horses but overall, they were a representative sampling of all of the horses that were in my practice. Here’s what I found. I found that forelimb flexion tests couldn’t tell me anything about the future of a sound horse. I could make every single horse lame with a hard enough flexion test, with the exception of one particularly annoying Arabian gelding who was always trying to bite me (no Arabian jokes, please). Horses that had something on their X-rays weren’t any more likely to be lame after a normal flexion test than horses that had clean X-rays. Horses that had positive normal flexion tests weren’t any more likely to be lame 60 days out, either (those horses that were lame mostly had things like hoof abscesses, which nobody could have predicted anyway). If you follow a groups of horses for 60 days, there’s a decent chance that a few of them might experience an episode of lameness. Who knew? So what did I conclude? Well, I said right there in front of an entire meeting of the American Association of Equine Practitioners that I didn’t think that it was a good idea to rely on forelimb flexion tests to make a diagnosis of some current or future problem without some other supporting sign. I said I didn’t think that they were very sensitive, or that they were very specific. And I said that I didn’t think it was a good idea to turn a horse down base solely on a response to a forelimb flexion test, either. Which caused a bit of a kerfuffle. What’s the Bottom Line? If you’re a seller, I don’t think that you need to be overly concerned if your otherwise sound horse takes a few lame steps after a forelimb flexion test. There are just too many variables. For example: Older horses are more likely to be positive to flexion that are younger horses The longer you hold a limb in flexion, the more likely the horse is to take a few lame steps afterwards Men tend to flex more firmly than do women The same horse may have different responses to flexion tests on different days If you’re a buyer, don’t be too eager to walk away from a horse that you otherwise like just because he takes a few lame steps after a flexion test. You have to consider a lot of other factors, such as whether you like the horse, or whether he does what you want him to do, or if he’s a colour that you like... You just can’t consider the forelimb flexion test in a vaccum. It has to interpreted in light of clinical findings such as fluid in the joint, reduced limb or joint flexibility, pain to palpation, or clinical lameness in the limb that demonstrates the positive response. If you see abnormal X-rays findings (such as osteoarthritis) in a limb that has a positive response to a flexion test, that may add some significance, and particularly if there is concurrent clinical lameness. However, to keep things confusing, my study also found that many radiographic abnormalities occur in clinically sound horses. Remember, you have to ride the horse you can’t ride the radiographs. Horses can and do perform well for a variety of riding endeavors even when they do not perform well on a forelimb flexion test. As for a positive response to a forelimb flexion test, it may just be that everything is OK, but the horse doesn’t like his leg bent up! Thanks to Dr. David Ramey for the info! here’s a link to the original article: https://www.doctorramey.com/flex-test/