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RUN 🏃🏼♀️ on over to the Labor Day S⭐️LE at The LucKy Horse 🐎, today through Monday‼️
15% off ALL apparel—breeches, schooling and show shirts, socks, belts and gloves. Including ALL the new children’s apparel 👧🏼 that just arrived!!!
Also, 15% off TREATS 🍬😋 (because the latest order arrived and they are taking over my shop)😁
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RUN 🏃🏼♀️ on over to the Labor Day S⭐️LE at The LucKy Horse 🐎, today through Monday‼️
15% off ALL apparel—breeches, schooling and show shirts, socks, belts and gloves. Including ALL the new children’s apparel 👧🏼 that just arrived!!!
Also, 15% off TREATS 🍬😋 (because the latest order arrived and they are taking over my shop)😁
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P.S. Woodstock says DON’T MISS IT😎💰👚👕👖🧦🧤✅
When your horse lowers their head to the height of their withers, the funnicular portion of their nuchal ligament (the cord like structure which runs from their withers to their poll) will traction on their supraspinous ligament (which runs over the top of their thoracic and lumbar spinous processes).
As the nuchal ligament tractions on the supraspinous ligament, the early thoracic spinous processes draw forwards and apart.
As the horse steps under from behind, via engaging the hindlimbs and shortening through their abdominals, the supraspinous ligament over the lumbar spinous processes will traction towards the horse's tail, drawing their lumbar spinous processes backwards and apart.
These are key mechanisms in kissing spines rehabilitation.
However - if your horse has muscular tension around the neck and back muscles, the efficacy of this ligament system may be inhibited, potentially creating pain and, if prolonged, tissue remodelling (e.g. ligament thickening, lesions or bony adaptation).
This means that, whilst we can look at training practices set to target supporting these systems - you have to be able to OBSERVE if the exercises are actually acheiving the desired effect.
You can track your eye over your horse's topline and see where the dysfunction might be occuring by literally looking at the skeletal and soft tissue system at a standstill and in motion.
I think this has to be one of my favourite assessment tools to help me to help horses with their movement ❤️
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Want to learn how to do this?
Join me in my next live webinar where you will learn exactly how to do this and:
- How to feel for muscle wastage even in horses that are overweight
- How to see compression points throughout the horse's topline
- How to determine if your horse should be ridden or not.
02.09.2024 19:00 BST
Recording available after the event if you can't attend live!
Children’s riding clothes are here!!! 👚👖☀️
As promised, here are all the frame and lens choices for Kroop’s sunglasses, made especially for equestrians!
5⭐️s for Kroop’s!
Replacement fork heads, includes nut & bolt assembly 🍴
Some new items, some restock, all the good stuff!🍀🐴
Multiple frame styles and lens colors, polarized and non-polarized😎
Kroops sunglasses for equestrians!!
With German Riding Instructor – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉
D&S in da house!!!
May I present Unbridled Sharp, retired and rescued OTTB! He’s another LucKy Horse enjoying his post-ride pampering bath🛁, with TLH collab shampoo from Pupuslandia and the gentle massage glove that’s our GWP (gift with purchase) 🎁
Contact me today for all your equestrian needs, and make your horse a LucKy Horse 💚
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Bobby is showing us how Bemer therapy helps him to relax and release!
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NEW SOCK STOCK 🧦🧦🧦
As always, it’s “Pair and A Spare,” which means when you buy two packages, you actually get 3 pairs or socks!!
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Special BOGO alert!🔔
Custom equine shampoos, made right here on Puerto Rico in collaboration with Pupuslandia Pets! Aloe, almond and coconut, all made with biotin, hydrolyzed collegen protein, and rosemary oil for skin and coat health and antibacterial properties.
Here’s the BOGO—buy one shampoo, get a FREE massaging wash glove! Pamper your horse with a luxurious bath, using a gentle glove that deep cleans, exfoliates and massages ✨🤩👑
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A show jumping coaches opinion on the Charlotte Dujardin debacle...
I am an FEI II Coach. In order to get my FEI II I had to coach both dressage and show jumping to the same level and standards as someone wanting to only do dressage. (That means dressage coaches had to be able to coach to the same level as me but didn't have to coach jumping meaning I had to be tested for twice as much skill).
I can't think of a time I've ever carried a whip into an arena to conduct a lesson. There was that one time a student almost ran me over with her horse and I had to jump out of the way. For that I decided to create a barrier of poles around myself (like a Hocus Pocus ring of salt) to prevent her from running me over.
It never occurred to me to hold a whip.
That's because a good coach can explain advanced concepts and complex exercises and movements to their students in a simple and easy way for them to duplicate and understand.
A good coach can get their students to feel things they might never have been able to feel and experience on their own. A good coach can get the rider to be able to perform amazing things on the horse and guide their students almost like puppets on a string to achieve specific and quantifiable results.
A good coach never raises their voice.
A good coach never gets frustrated at their student or at the horse if they are having a "bad day" (because those days can happen.)
And a good coach always sets their student and horses up for success.
The fact that she HAD a long whip with her during this "lesson" to me means that this isn't the first time she's brought a whip to a lesson before. Bringing a whip to conduct a lesson, to me, means chances are she also has used that whip in her other lessons.
Just because someone is a famous rider does NOT mean they are a good coach.
Becoming a good coach is the equivalent of going to college to be a brain surgeon. It requires hundreds of thousands of dollars of your own money in training, and countless hours learning and apprenticing and shadowing the best. It means understanding horse and human psychology to high degrees. It means learning sports and biomechanics to a level that would bore the pants off of most people.
And most importantly, it requires a true passion and commitment and dedication to your students and their own dreams and goals.
As coaches we take on the responsibility for being role models and creating the equestrians of the future.
Let me be clear. There is a difference between carrying a jumping bat and giving your horse a little tap before a big jump because the spot is long and your horse is young and has a tendency to back off at the last second... and using a whip on a horse 24 times in less than 60 seconds because "it needed to lift its legs higher in canter."
The show jumping world isn't much better. There are "pros" out there that do things they shouldn't behind closed doors. Unfortunately, it happens more than we'd care to admit. But at the end of the day, there is no justifiable reason for what Charlotte did. It is not excusable. And it probably happened more than once.
Be careful who you hire as your coach. A gold medal doesn't qualify them as a good one.
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Children’s riding clothes are here!!! 👚👖☀️
As promised, here are all the frame and lens choices for Kroop’s sunglasses, made especially for equestrians!
5⭐️s for Kroop’s!
Kroops sunglasses for equestrians!!
D&S in da house!!!
NEW SOCK STOCK 🧦🧦🧦 As always, it’s “Pair and A Spare,” which means when you buy two packages, you actually get 3 pairs or socks!! #dreanersandschemers#socks#pair #spare#bestbootsocksever🌟 #TheLucKyHorse🍀🐴
Bridles, halters, martingales & breast collars, finally on full display!
Anatomical girths in both leather and pvc, padded, non-slip non-neoprene, also nylon with fleece. All have elastic equalizers on both ends for better fit and comfort! #girth#anatomical#leather#pvc #padded#nonslip#nonneoprene #nylon#fleece#elastic#equalizer #fit#comfort#amahorse #TheLucKyHorse🍀🐴
New products!!
TLH proudly salutes🫡 all our US servicemen and women on this Memorial Day, and let us not forget the four legged members of our military—horses, dogs and cats are valued members of our armed services! Let us always be grateful and NEVER forget their willingness to serve and their sacrifices. God bless each and every one of you, and your families, they serve as well! ❤️🤍💙🇱🇷🐴🐶🐱
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