APRIL
No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle. ~Winston Churchill
WPDA 2010 Adult Team
LEC Prix de Ville Dressage Show
Photo left: WPDA Adult Team High Maintenance. Verena, Nina and Janet (lft to rt).
Photo right: WPDA Adult Team Steel City Divas. Megan, Mayme, Beth and Jerri (lft to rt).
Photo left: Saber asking for his afternoon walk, waiting in his nice open stall. Table with information about WPDA and the team on the left and a board with our sponsors posted above table.
Photo middle: Saber on his walk, enjoying the horse friendly facility. Lots of places to walk your horse around.
Photo right: Incredible view on the show grounds.
It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb
Photo left: Trainer Krista Tyco-Noone gives last minute advice before Maymes test.
Photo right: Pamela Grigsby McCready, Verena Schreiber, Lisa Hall, Jerri Anesetti and Megan’s Mom (lft to rt) cheer on other riders at the show.
Photo left: Other WPDA members were at the show, Heather Soones (middle) waits for her scores. Also, this photo shows the process a rider goes thru at a dressage event. Left to right is day one, day two and ...time to sleep.
Photo right: Jerri riding her horse Sir Victor at the LEC Dressage Prix de Ville. Instructor Lisa Hall giving last minute advice.
Riding: The art of keeping a horse between you and the ground. ~Author Unknown
FEBRUARY
Photo top left: Classy the horse attempts to eat his way out of the Feb. snowstorm of 2010
Photo top right: Karen & Siren at the WPDA Summer Sizzler
Photo above left: Safety tips for lunge line: “Lunger needs to butterfly the lunge line in the left hand for safety.”
Photo above right: WPDA member, Ingrid Albrecht riding Sabastian’s Magique at WPDA Rec. Show
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JANUARY
The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse’s ears. - Arabian Proverb
Photo by Valery Mahoney
Posted: 1/20/10
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Photo left: Emily with her mom’s new PMU baby, Muraco.
Photo right: Lydia (Beth Sweet’s daughter) practicing her dressage test. Nice square halt Lydia!
Photo by Janet Hadden
Posted: 1/20/10
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The horse knows how to be a horse if we will leave him alone... but the riders don't know how to ride. What we should be doing is creating riders and that takes care of the horse immediately. ~ Charles de Kunffy