Provenance Dressage

26/11/2024

Love this video of Mecena Mac ❤️
Every time it pops up in my Memories, I have to re post!!

08/06/2024

CONGRATULATIONS to California rider, Steffen Peters who placed 3rd out of more than 40 competitors in the Grand Prix in HAGEN. Riding Suppenkasper (pictured here at the Spring Benefit Show in CA), his 2020 Olympic mount owned by Akiko Yamazaki/Four Winds Farm he was joined by four other Americans in the top eight, including Californian, Anna Buffini on Fiontini. Photo by Terri Miller

08/06/2024

Congratulations Electra and Einstein!!!
So very proud 🤩🥉😍https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=7451629831622575&id=100003268958365&mibextid=WUal2a

18/04/2024

"...Oliveira took several young trainers aside and asked us a series of questions.

"What were our goals? Did we wish to teach? To train horses, either personally or professionally? To compete?

The answers we gave him determined the direction of the conversation. When it came my turn, I answered: "I want to train horses."

He considered the answer with the sincerity it was given, then replied: "Then ride a lot of bad horses. I don't mean ride dangerous horses - you are too valuable now to get hurt - but ride
the difficult horses and learn."

He elaborated a little on this theme during our last interview.

"Nowadays riders learn one system because if they have a horse that isn't suitable for dressage they sell the horse and get another,
he observed. "So instructors now don't know the old systems - for instance, Baucher's flexions - and don't know how to use those
systems to improve the horse. Now everybody learns one way, but that doesn't mean that every horse will respond best to that way.

"You can take pieces of a different system and apply them, and riders can understand why they do something from a different system to correct specific problems. But no one teaches the other systems anymore, so riders don't learn to be able to do that."
- Stephanie Grant Millham

15/04/2024

Save the date! April 17th marks Pathway to Paris: USET Foundation Inc. Giving Day, a day dedicated to supporting U.S. equestrian athletes on their Pathway to Paris 2024.

Donate ➡️ uset.org/givingday

13/04/2024

: Unlike humans, horses don’t have collarbones. Their shoulders are held to the rest of their skeleton via a sling of muscles and ligaments instead, often referred to as the “thoracic sling.”

Why is this important? We often ask our equine athletes to perform complex movements that require tremendous strength and coordination, and horses carry the majority of their weight in their front end. Therefore, it is imperative that the bulk of the muscles that support the front end are kept healthy and conditioned, and the horse is trained to use their “motor” — that is, engaging the large hind end muscles as much as possible to avoid excessive weight bearing on the front end.

If the front end of the horse is consistently overweighted or not at an appropriate level of fitness, repetitive biomechanical stresses get transferred down the leg to the smaller ligaments and tendons that were not designed to bear this weight, which can then lead to injury.
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Brough to you by the AAEP Horse Owner Education Committee

28/02/2024

MULTIBREED MANE EVENT!

Mark your calendars!

April 12-14, 2024
California Ranch Company
Temecula, CA
See more at our website www.wcchorseshow.com

California Dressage Society Classes
Western Dressage Association of America WDAA Classes
The Gypsy Vanner Horse Society Classes
Pinto Horse Association of America Inc. Classes *
Ranch Riding
Andalusian / Iberian Horse Classes
Open Breed Classes (English & Western)

There's something for every horse and rider!

27/02/2024

The late Dr Klimke told us:
“The horse should be happy and going softly with invisible aids. To achieve this the trainer must be very patient and disciplined. The aim is to keep your horse proud so that he accepts you as master. Don’t sit on him but influence him. The horse must carry us easily and only then will you achieve self-balance.”Share more of his wisdom, and enjoy a photo gallery illustrating his philosophy:
https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/2021/07/wisdom-from-reiner-klimke/

29/01/2024

I say this to my students all the time ❤️

To increase your horse’s elasticity ...

Imagine his topline as a giant accordion, breathing in and out. Play with mild increases and decreases in his pace, letting his body move quietly through its spectrum.—Jeremy Steinberg

🎨: Sandy Rabinowitz

26/01/2024

So very Proud of Tufia Steidle and Lantano IV their first year out at Level 1 Working Equitation! Super Competitive group of Horses and Riders, and they Nailed it! Looking forward to 2024 season 🎊🎉🐴🥰