Klasic Dressage

12/25/2024

🎄Merry Christmas!!🎄

I hope your day is filled with love and laughter! Celebrating with friends and family- while taking time to relax and enjoy the season ❤️

So thankful for all my clients and the horses who allow me to love each of them like my own! 🥰

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🦄 Daisy

12/16/2024

Yes!! 🙌🏼

“People seem to think that by creating rules you can protect the sport, but I don't think it works like that," Franke Sloothaak - 1988 and 1996 Olympic Team Champion – tells World of Showjumping. All photos © Nanna Nieminen for World of Showjumping.

11/15/2024

When one talks of a rider’s ability to feel, one understands his ability, at all times, to judge how well he is sitting, his effectiveness, his giving of aids and equally, as far as his horse is concerned, its responsiveness, its degree of collection and whether it is paying attention. This sense of feeling should tell the rider how his horse is going, when action or an aid is necessary and with what degree of firmness; then quick judgment as to whether what he did was effective and the intention achieved or whether the action should be repeated.

Feeling is something one has to teach oneself. Teachers can only try to stimulate it by good instruction, advice on self-discipline, appropriate lessons, and the way they react to the manner in which the pupil tries to carry out their commands. …

It is the horse which is undoubtedly the best and only master of the art of giving the rider a sense of feel. One has only to interpret its reactions and make corresponding corrections. …

Feeling will only be learned by the person who uses his brain and interprets what he feels.

Riding Logic
by W. Müseler
(p.29-31)

11/12/2024

Flying into the week on Maybach!

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Breeches 💜

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11/01/2024

Weeeee! So happy to have Reni in full training for the month…time to shine buddy 🥰

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Breeches:

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10/19/2024

Someone needed to document my outfit 😂

💜 Purple boots

💜 Purple Helmet

🖤 Breeches:

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09/28/2024

Why do biomechanics matter?

No one uttered this term to me, in all my years of riding and lesson-taking, until I was well into my 20's. I heard lots of other words: contact, responsiveness, connection, rhythm, impulsion, suppleness. All of them felt like these ethereal concepts that had multiple meanings depending on who you talked to. They also had varying degrees of importance or ranking in terms of what you need first before the horse can offer the next thing, depending on who you talked to. I still see this all the time, and hear about how frustrating it is from other horsepeople trying to do the best they can.

Biomechanics are the physical relationships and structural laws that govern how living things move. Biomechanics are the HOW in all of those aforementioned ethereal terms. They are vital in understanding how to correctly develop a horse for riding. This is the first reason why biomechanics matter.

The second reason is because horses weren't designed to be ridden. I cannot overstate how important this is to understand if you want to ride horses and ride them well: horses were NEVER designed to be sat on. The horse is born with a specific set of biomechanical tools available to him, and they serve him very well...when they are needed.

The thing is, those tools were designed for maximum efficiency if the horse's life is in danger: used for brief moments, blips in between long stretches of calm. Those exact tools can cause injury, unsoundness, and degeneration if used every day, day in and day out, for years.
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I want you to look at these two photos.

The top horse is using what nature gave him (and what work with humans helped him turn into long-standing patterns in movement). The bottom horse has been given new tools and taught how to use them to move in ways that preserve soundness, not encourage degeneration.

The top horse is moving in a way that directly ties into the same sympathetic nervous system responses that kick in when a horse is in danger. The bottom horse is demonstrating all of the power potential the nervous system makes available when the horse is in danger, but accessing it through relaxation and completely different biomechanics.

The top horse is using the ground to support his weight in movement, putting a lot of pressure on his joints. The bottom horse is doing a lot of that supporting himself by virtue of his posture, putting significantly less strain on his joints.

You may have already figured out this is the same horse. These photos were taken approximately two years apart.

I guess what I'm getting at is this: the way to develop the bottom horse isn't to simply take the top horse and add contact, impulsion, responsiveness, ride circle after circle, do pole and hill work, etc. Whatever you apply to the ridden horse will only reinforce what is already in him.

You must teach him, literally from the ground up, a new way of moving, a different biomechanical perspective. Some horses will come by this easier than others, but not a one is born knowing how to put all of these things together on their own when the human asks it. Not a one.

We have to show them how.

PC: Mandy Helwege. Thank you for permitting me to share your lovely boy.

09/28/2024

🍂 Fall Vibes 🍂

I’m usually not a cold weather person, but there are so many things to look forward in the coming months- one of which is wearing this amazing coat from !

As always captured Daisy and this coat brilliantly! 😍

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08/16/2024

Currently have openings on my lovely lesson horse, Leada! She is a lovely schoolmaster, who will teach you how to ride correctly from your seat! 💜

Contact me to get more info and schedule your lesson! 😊

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08/09/2024

High quality horse, low quality picture. 😍

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08/05/2024

Monday vibes with Reni💃🏼




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07/27/2024

Go Steffen and Mopsie! 🇺🇸😊

07/22/2024

So proud of and Reni Road To Championships/ RAAC. They were reserve champions in the Training Level RAAC! 🥰

Both of them are so new to the show arena- they keep getting stronger and more confident! 🤩

Fun and wonderful environment as always!! . 💃🏼

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07/14/2024

Candid picture from the last Galway show with Renaissance ECV and ❤️ Thank you for trusting me to be part of this journey!

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07/04/2024

We have available stalls and corrals with trainers located at our facility. New footing has been added to all of our arenas.

The family owned private facility offers:
· 2 Hunter/Jumper arenas, 1 with lights
· 1 regulation size Dressage court with mirrors
· Western arena
· Multipurpose arena with lights
· 2 lunge pens
· Multiple turnouts and wash racks throughout the property
· 5 Horse Eurociser
· Access to miles of RSF trails

If you are interested in joining our barn family, please contact me or a trainer below to schedule a visit. The trainers are also listed on our Website Programs page. If you have any facility questions, please contact Karyl Hanley at 858-414-4982.

Ranchocieloequestrian.com.

The trainers at our facility are: Klasic Dressage, Coastline Hunter Jumpers, Lena Nordlof-Davis Dressage, Finer Hunter Jumpers, BluePoint Farm and Liz Place Performance Horses.