It's time to braid for shows
WITH THE SUMMER show season right around the corner, it's time to start practicing your braiding skills to be ready for the first important show (for those whose discipline require braids)...It is easier to braid a mane that has not been freshly washed. Wash the mane a week before the show if it is very dusty. Clean manes are very slippery and hard to hold for making a tight braid...
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NEXT CLINIC AT WINDSONG Sonja Vracko 3/15-16, 2004

Find out more about Bilingual Dressage Lessons in German and English at Windsong Dressage and Equestrian Center
If you have questions you can email Ulla Hudson, our German Certified Instructor.

Windsong Dressage and Equestrian Center,#733, Route 344, Cedar Grove, Edgewood, NM, 87015
505-615-5050
friendly people, happy horses.
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Event doping rumours quashed
by FEI
The BEF and the FEI have strongly denied that the sport of eventing is currently experiencing a problem with horses being doped for the dressage phase. Although mere conjecture, recent reports in the press concerning the use of sedatives in the dressage phase during three-day events have provoked a response from equestrian sporting bodies and raised public awareness of the alleged problem in this Olympic year...
Avoiding prohibited substances

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Do you live a long way from a good FEI instructor, are you concerned that your riding is not progressing or do you just want a second opinion about how things are going? Then use our video review and teaching service at Windsong Dressage and Equestrian Center. If you have questions you can email Ulla Hudson, our German Certified Instructor.

Windsong Dressage and Equestrian Center,#733, Route 344, Cedar Grove, Edgewood, NM, 87015
505-615-5050
friendly people, happy horses.
DDD - Daily Dressage Digest

Outrage spurs judge for Equus to withdraw
Paul Valliere, an elite trainer banned from horse shows after admitting his part in a 1990s horse killing scandal, stepped down Tuesday as a judge for the upcoming Equus Medal class when his appointment touched off controversy...
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NEXT CLINIC AT WINDSONG Sonja Vracko 3/15-16, 2004

Contact Windsong Dressage about boarding and lessons before the show season begins
If you have questions you can email Ulla Hudson, our Certified Instructor.

Windsong Dressage and Equestrian Center,
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DDD - Daily Dressage Digest

Horse sense. Animal behaviorists give them some credit for smarts.
If you are a Horse Person -- the kind who has spent every spare minute since childhood in an endless cycle of grooming, tacking, riding, untacking, hosing down, feeding, mucking -- you know there are certain Truths About Horses. You know, for example, that your horse is no dummy...take FBW Kennedy, champion dressage horse ridden to victory recently by five-time Olympian Robert Dover at the Winter Equestrian Festival Grand Prix in Wellington, Fla.
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NEXT CLINIC AT WINDSONG Sonja Vracko 3/15-16, 2004

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DDD - Daily Dressage Digest

Calming of 'crazy horses' sets off alarm
... For the first time yesterday, a number of prominent characters in the sport were willing to discuss their concerns that illegal tranquilisers were being fed to horses to better compete in the dressage test at major competitions, potentially distorting results and the outcome of medals.The sport's world governing body, the Federation Equestre Internationale, first reacted to intelligence about the possible existence of the sedative last year by increasing the number of drug tests immediately after the dressage phase...
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NEXT CLINIC AT WINDSONG Sonja Vracko 3/15-16, 2004

Find out more about winter training in the indoor arena at Windsong Dressage and Equestrian Center
If you have questions you can email Ulla Hudson, our Certified Instructor.

Windsong Dressage and Equestrian Center,
friendly people, happy horses.
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