HDS Collective Remarks May 2024

COLLECTIVE REMARKS

Editor FranKehr franwkf@gmail.com

HORSEPEOPLE HELPING HORSEPEOPLE:

John Mason continues his recovery from neck surgery under strict supervision of his wife+clients!

Next is Martin Arnold. His story on FB as follows: “Well,Iguessthecat isoutofthebagaboutmykidney disease.Iamsohumbledby all of the support/prayers/kind words I have received in the last few days. It is so appreciated, and I am so grateful for all of you! The horse community has been nothing short of amazing in their support for me. I feel so blessed to be a part of it. Of course I am also lucky to have an extremely supportive family and the support of my amazing wife Jenna Stern-Arnold, who has been a rock by my side and has stepped up to take more of the workload in our business”. (Story continues on pg. 3)

Houston Dressage Society Board Meeting

Meeting Agenda April 8, 2024

7:00 PM Call to order and intro of guests Called to order – 7:05

• Leslie Cummings – Recognized Show Committee

7:02 p.m. Review and Approval of minutes from last meeting

• Membership and the discussion about members when they ride for schooling show rides – they DO NOT have to be members when they ride their test for scores and Year End Awards/Schooling Show Championships

o It is difficult to get scores from schooling shows, so the membership can come after their test is ridden just before schooling show Championships

o They MUST be members when they ride in schooling show championships, they sign up for the current year and the next year

7:05 PM Board Reports

7:05 PM Treasurer’s Report – Terry – not on call

7:10 PM Recognized Shows – Angel – not on call

7:20 PM Special Events – Ashley

• Competitor Welcome on Friday – games, entertainment??

• We are having cocktail party Friday – Competitor Mixer instead of cocktail party

• Charcuterie for the jog – judges, competitors

• Competitors party – email being sent from Susan about attendance

• Playlist for songs – rock n roll posters around the venue to advertise for the party, QR codes on posters so that everyone can access the playlist

• Waiting to hear from caterers – theme was told to caterers so they proposed food choices

o Titles of dishes – rock n roll songs to represent food stations

• Decorations/table centerpieces – finalizing

• Flyer where they pick up their packets – maybe place a flyer in each competitor packet

7:30 PM Schooling Shows – Dawn Morris

• Report was forwarded earlier

7:35 PM Publications and Media – Fran and Flo Leslie gave wording for website Do we still offer riding certificates? Should Juniors be next? Or Volunteers? Volunteers!! Published on FB for volunteer call!

Add information about competitor party in email blast Flo needs cover art WITH sponsorship information to put on website Flo – Cate is official for the Junior Chair for HDS, needs to be added to website Fran – going smooth with the newsletter

7:45 PM Juniors –Cate Schmidt

• Review of email from Bess Bruton and Marsha Lewis previously forwarded

o Marsha Lewis and Bess Bruton were to be hosted on call – Marsha Lewis was available for the call

• Mary Hardberger and Mary Nuttall donating their stall choices to Juniors for auction

• Non FEI youth – clinic coming up – Nancy Hinz instructor, June 29 – 30 at Rolling Ridge Farms, Menard, Texas

• Flyer in packet for competitor or place flyer on the table for juniors to complete and give their name/number/email address, put in the program for shows, QR code to take directly to form

• Concerned about polling for sponsorships for Juniors, trying not to cannibalize their potential sponsors

• Plans for championships – putting together sponsorship program proposal – parents have contacts outside of the show world, that is who is the target audience will be

o Star levels, 1* - 5*

o List of offerings for levels of sponsorship

o Banners provided by sponsors and hung by Jrs

o Sponsors in program

o Jr provide their own shirts

o Banquet tickets – asking for free tickets to banquet, are Juniors willing to pay for banquet tickets, it was just part of brainstorming not definitive, Region 9 would like to be a sponsor at CDI – at least a week prior for number of tickets for banquet

 we would definitely like to support Jrs, but Jrs not active in support of HDS in volunteering at shows for HDS – if we see more support of HDS we would be willing to return that support

 Juniors will be required to volunteer in order to get a portion of the funds raised per Marsha Lewis

 HDS will be willing to donate print in program for sponsors – need information for program at least 10 days prior to the show

7:50 PM Awards – Trish

• Review Ashley’s email about Mary Hardberger new award idea

• Olva Pharo trophy – someone please reach out to her!

• Unmounted awards – need to enumerate and announce before Championships. Include the Character of a Champion award for Juniors – Discuss with Yi Family. We need to promote these new awards throughout the year

• Ordering for CDI – all ribbons ordered! Dana Speer sponsor already on ribbons, coming in before the show

• Working on listing – all other awards – making sure we have them all captured, how do we put them out there --through website, social media???

• Most recent – Mary wanted to sponsor – solidify what we want it to look like – need to talk a little bit to Mary to figure out how she wants to proceed with award

• Contacted Olva, but have not heard back from her

• Olva been very generous in offering a prize or sponsor, difficult to come up with rules for the awards being posed

o SO much administrative work in order to figure for these award offerings

o Instead of weighted scores --- maybe do a point system instead

o Maybe do it on point system regardless of score, you get a placing with your score regardless, so we could compose a point placing

8:00 PM Education - Sarah Clinic – planned, wants HDS support, financially support efforts to bring in clinicians, JJ Tate, Amelia Newcomb

o No dates

o Already has people that want to ride in clinics

o Wants to host at the old Shoofly

o HDS should have to sign contract with clinician, insurance concerns

o She will not come back with any information to put forth to HDS to where HDS can support this clinic

o How would HDS put together a clinic with one of these clinicians if an individual is wanting to host as opposed to HDS

o If HDS was to host clinic, HDS needs to have outline for support if someone wants to host and have HDS support

o Needs to be symposium not just a riding clinic

o Maybe piggyback off something like the Ann Gribbons clinic hosted by Paragon or the Sabine event

 They don’t have to open facility or clinics, HDS pay for TIME with the clinician --- HDS to receive some benefit from these clinicians coming to area

 Maybe virtual audit a ride instead of crowd show up at private barn

 Maybe have a judge stay over and host a clinic regarding what was seen/shown at the show???

 Maybe do a mock judge’s forum – many levels of riders, and talk about how the scoring occurs

 Maybe do a ride a test --- and judge forum to ‘practice’ a test

 Is there a judge that comes to mind that we could ask? Steven Clark, Lilo Fore…Maybe do in person and zoom coverage for those not in attendance

8:10 PM Historian – Noell

• Flo sent issues of newsletter

• Try to compile listing of major office holders through HDS

• Some have given a lot to HDS, we need to know who they are – maybe put something in the newsletter that we need copies of old issues

8:15 PM Advertising/Sponsorships – Madison and Jane

• CDI - a little behind last year in platinum sponsorships

• Mary Hardberger purchased a platinum sponsorship; Mary Nuttall offered stalls to Juniors to raffle off, 8 stalls available to meet for Juniors and raffle

• Pizza meet and greet for Juniors at the stalls; Saturday instead of Friday – which was conflicting with the Competitor Mixer

8:25 PM Membership – Diane 226 total members

27 total Youth/Young Riders

158 AA 41 Open

Program/show bill needs new address of our PO Box

8:35 PM Volunteer Coordinator – ???

8:37 PM Old/Unfinished Business

8:45 PM New Business

Need photos of CDI for newsletter

Email blast/FB post to send pictures taken at CDI to Fran for newsletter Say thank you for the volunteers, take pictures of volunteers in their volunteer positions

9:00 PM Adjourn

Motion to adjourn: 8:56 Diane, Fran/Trish 2nd

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Those dreaded walk pirouettes are still disliked by riders, but don’t worry, I think they’re also dreaded by judges. Judges seem to have varied ideas on what to look for in this reasonably easy exercise, and how to mark them, consequently confusing riders as how to ride them.

Looking at scores that are now available to all and sundry post competitions, it is often interesting to see where the discrepancy in marks lay, and on researching this, one of the movements that has the biggest discrepancies is definitely the walk pirouettes.

“It’s like making a jigsaw puzzle…”

It is often that this movement that is not well enough understood, and hence marked either too high or too low, and it is so often the reason for the difference in the percentages, and hence the placings amongst the judges on the same test. There are always two walk pirouettes, and sometimes a coefficient attached to them, and so up to 40 marks can be available in two pirouettes. And, of course, the quality of the walk during the movement comes into the mark for the collected walk that is also a coefficient mark. Therefore, the overall marks for the walk during the pirouettes can be up to 60 marks, which is up to 15% of the total test!

It’s always interesting to look at pulling every movement apart detail by detail and then putting it all back together. It’s like making a jigsaw puzzle complete at the end of putting all the pieces together – you have a beautiful perfect picture of the walk pirouette. If one tiny piece of the puzzle is missing, it doesn’t mean that the overall impression can’t still be good. It’s just missing one tiny bit and, as a consequence, some people become bogged down with not being able to see the overall impression, and the overall good feeling of a pirouette, but instead get hung up on one minor part.

The important positive things a judge should pay attention to in the walk pirouette, and the important positive things for riders to realise what the judges will look for are as follows:

Thoroughness and on the bit with a collected walk and the poll the highest point and the nose approaching the vertical.

The collected walk before and after the pirouette must have a very clear four-beat rhythm and the collected steps must have no over-track and show a consistent tempo throughout in self-carriage.

The positioning into the turn should be in a slight shoulder-fore. The first step should be the outside fore turning over the inside forelimb. Not the hind leg sideways!

The hind feet should remain active and the pirouette centered around the inside hind hoof with the outside hind close but not crossing and never having any tendency to swing out. The horse’s steps should be active and nearly on the spot.

The front legs should form a circle (arc) the length of the horse with the outside fore stepping in front of and across the inside fore.

The horse should be bent around the rider inside leg with a flexion and suppleness in the direction of the turn.

The balance should be off the inside shoulder.

The rider’s aids should be discrete.

It is a very interesting to ask someone where the judges are looking when they are assessing this movement. Some will say the hind feet, the bend and flexion, the quality of the walk steps, the crossing of the front legs, the consistency of the tempo of the steps, the frame and the poll, the head not tilting, the contact and the mouth, the use of the back, the hind feet not crossing and so on and so on. Of course, with so many components to factor in, a good place to watch so you get a good overall impression is at the rider’s knee area behind the shoulder. From this focal point your eyes can absorb the overall impression and not become obsessed on one thing that may overshadow others.

These are the directives on the judge’s sheet:

● Quality of shortened walk strides

● Tempo and regularity

● Activity of hind legs

● Bend and fluency in the turn

This pretty well sums it up!

“The balance should be off the inside shoulder.” Once the basics are established, the walk pirouette should start from a slight shoulder fore position.

Some problems that are sometimes seen that will bring the marks down are:

The walk not staying in the correct rhythm. The walk must be a four-beat tempo and clear with collected steps, not over-tracking.

In the pirouette there must be no lateral walk steps that are sometimes seen and are caused through trying to make the turn without collected and light-footed steps and light contact showing self-carriage. With the lack of yielding to the bridle, the horse will lean on to the bit in the turn, the back will be blocked and then the steps will show lateral tendency and not stepping (grounding) and this is a bad error. If you were to listen to the footfalls when a horse is on a firm surface, the walk should be 1, 2, 3, 4. If it shows lateral steps then it becomes 1, 2… 3, 4. The pirouette is then not in collected walk, but rather with an irregular rhythm (lateral tendency), and so the mark will be lower (maybe a lot).

The biggest fault will be the stepping out with the outside hind leg and the pirouette is then not around an active, almost-on-the-spot inside hind.

The flexion and the bending must be consistent and to the direction of the turn. To ride a pirouette without the inside flexion and bend is no good.

At the completion of the pirouette, the balance up off the inside shoulder must be evident and the feeling of balance and self-carriage is important. If the mouth is pushing down, the poll lowering and the weight over the shoulders, this is not in selfcarriage.

The rhythm and tempo must not vary and should always be consistent.

The size of the pirouette is all important and if it’s getting too large – in other words the hind hooves are making too big a circle – then it will be a poorer mark. (However, a little large with green horses is better than too tight and stepping out and losing the positioning). It should be made around the inside hind hoof.

The steps should be even and not alternating one long, one short.

Above the bit will also incur a big loss of marks.

The pirouette should be fluent and effortless and the rider’s aids very non-apparent. This movement needs the greatest attention from the rider to make it as good as possible and the judges to award appropriate marks. It is pretty apparent that good marks (8 and upwards) are rarely given and that judges need to discuss a lot more about what they are looking at, as this movement and its marks often are the difference between winning and losing a test.

CONTINUE READING (NEXT PAGE) “PERFECTING [CANTER] PIROUETTES”: Perfecting Pirouettes – Equestrian Life, August 2023

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The highest collection in trot is the piaffe, where the horse stays very close to on the spot but energetically moves in the rhythm of trot. The canter pirouettes are correspondingly the highest level of collection demonstrated at canter. Of course, success in the pirouettes depends on the perfect preparation both in the training and in the ring.

When training the pirouettes, we start in walk. Just ride a 10m circle at walk and put the horse into travers on the circle. You hold the shoulder to the outside of the circle with your outside rein and push the hindquarter in so the hindquarter is on a

smaller circle. Ensure that he maintains the rhythm and activity of the walk and just allow him to keep marching around the circle until you feel him becoming able to relax in this difficult movement. Don’t try to turn this into a walk pirouette until he is really comfortable in it.

Then, when he is established in this preparation, you can ask him to turn more and make it small like a pirouette. The inside rein, of course, invites him to turn, and asks for the bending. Remember though that too much bending will actually push the shoulder to the outside and make it harder for him to turn. To turn more you can use the outside rein to get him to make smaller steps; the outside rein pressure tells him “don’t go forward”. This use of the outside rein to help the horse balance is very important. It might seem counter-intuitive that we are, for example, turning to the left, but the left rein will be relatively soft and the right rein is containing the horse.

A correct pirouette depends on the correct canter, advises former Spanish Riding School director Alois Podhajsky. Before you can train the canter pirouettes the horse must be able to produce a very collected canter on a straight line and a large circle. Step by step you ask him to gradually develop the strength to be able to canter almost to walk speed. The rhythm of the canter must remain correct, with the diagonal pair touching the ground together. If the canter becomes 4-beat, or if he is bobbing his head, you will need to get some more energy, perhaps by allowing the circle to be a little bigger. Refresh the canter so it is correct in the rhythm. Don’t hold him in this short canter too long when he is learning as he will become fatigued and the hind leg willslow down. But do practice coming in and out of the pirouette canter staying very straight.

When you start training the canter pirouettes you can start just by getting the pirouette canter and developing his balance by riding a small circle of 6-8 metres. You can put a witch’s hat in the spot the pirouette is in the test and use this as a marker. Just allow him to find his balance.

Then you can work in this circle to build control of the shoulders and the hindquarters. Establish the circle then ride shoulder-in in the circle. Bring the shoulder on a smaller circle. This exercise was recommended by William Cavendish, the Duke of Newcastle, in his book of 1743. Soft inside rein. Then take the shoulder back to the circle line and push the hindquarter in. This is travers on the circle. Just continue on the circle and alternate the shoulder-in and the travers so that you both become familiar with being able to control the circle and keep the balance.

Walking in travers on the circle

The walk pirouette is the next step.

Images by Roger Fitzhardinger

“A correct pirouette depends on the correct canter.”

When you can do this, you can take a little outside bend. This is renvers on the circle and is very difficult. But riding this will give you a really good feeling of how the outside rein can control the shoulder, which is important in the pirouette. Podhajsky recommends training renvers at canter on the circle but not to demand an exaggerated bend, just a slight bend. He says, “keep up the pace” as the too-short canter will induce fatigue with the hind legs losing their activity. If the head bobs, ride him more forwards in the exercise.

When you can do these exercises, you can start the pirouette by asking him to turn more. It can be very effective to turn him with your eyes. Look back over your shoulder in the direction you are going in. Keep your weight to the inside so you are asking him to step underneath you. Keep your shoulders parallel to his shoulders and your hips parallel to his hips. Your inside leg is on the girth still motivating his energy, and encouraging him to bend around that inside leg, and your outside leg is back a little keeping the quarters.

There are six to eight steps in a full pirouette. Each step must be even and balanced. To achieve this you need to be able to control the shoulder and the quarters each step, to make little adjustments. You may need to bring the shoulder in to the middle more to turn more, or you may need to push the quarters in to the middle or hold the shoulders out to keep the balance over the hind leg.

An excellent exercise to practice control is to ride a small square with quarter pirouette turns. Start with a 10m square with two to three steps of pirouette in each corner. Ensure that you go into the corner in shoulder-fore position and come out straight on your line. Maybe use some markers to aim for to keep the square accurate. You goal is to be able to make a tiny square, two or three steps forward before you turn again. This teaches him to wait for the aids and helps him think forwards in the pirouette. Even in a Grand Prix pirouette you may need to ride forwards one step if he starts to turn too quickly and makes it too small.

When you start putting it all together into an actual pirouette, think of three parts of each pirouette. The beginning: the preparation to pirouette canter, shoulder-fore position, and then a couple of steps that turn as much as you can to stay on the line. The middle is some even-balanced easy steps and the ending you allow the last couple of steps to go a little more forwards so that you meet the line out with a straight horse.

When you are training at home by yourself, try to keep in mind the training scale to evaluate your progress. Can you maintain rhythm, suppleness, contact, impulsion, straightness and collection? Which of these qualities are you losing? Then you must work on maintaining that quality. The feeling of the contact, even in this highly collected work, is that he should be reaching into the contact. There should be a sense that he is keeping a long neck coming up out of the wither, not that you have shortened the neck when you shortened the steps of the canter.

“A pirouette can be a thing of beauty.”

A pirouette can be a thing of beauty, with the rider having a sense of the horse being perfectly balanced and in self-carriage underneath her. It is fun to train but, as always, just ask for him to build his ability step by step. If dressage is training for obedience, suppleness and balance, remember that he cannot be obedient to the pirouette until he is supple enough and has the ability to balance in this difficult work. So, it is your job to train the suppleness and balance before you expect obedience. These exercises will help you achieve this.

Have fun. EQ

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SWDC Important News

Each year SWDC keeps a show calendar on our website www.swdressage.org. Any show listed on the calendar is a qualifying show for the fall championship show. Competitors should always check to make sure the shows they are entering are recognized by SWDC for the ride to count as a qualifying ride for SWDC. When competitors enter a show they can identify whether they want the score to count for Pony, Open, Amateur, or Junior. They do not have to enter the same class for it to count. In the past we have had Adult Amateurs win in our Open division. Competitors can ride in a Junior class to be a qualifier for a pony championship class. Rides must be identified and paid for before the ride.

Shows can look at the calendar to make sure their show is recognized and get their recognition number. If a show pays their recognition fee before the end of January their fee is cheaper. Show applications are available on the SWDC website.

–Sarah Jane Martin, Chairman of SWDC

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• Kim Gentry Bit Fitting Clinic the week of May 6th at Live Oaks Lane Farm. Contact Cynthia Hall cymbioticeq@gmail.com

SWDC Important News

Each year SWDC keeps a show calendar on our website www.swdressage.org Any show listed on the calendar is a qualifying show for the fall championship show.Competitors should always check to make sure the shows they are entering are recognized by SWDC for the ride to count as a qualifying ride for SWDC. When competitors enter a show they can identify whether they want the score to count for Pony, Open, Amateur, or Junior. They do not have to enter the same class for it to count. In the past we have had Adult Amateurs win in our Open division. Competitors can ride in a Junior class to be a qualifier for a pony championship class. Rides must be identified and paid for before the ride.

Shows can look at the calendar to make sure their show is recognized and get their recognition number. If a show pays their recognition fee before the end of January their fee is cheaper. Show applications are available on the SWDC website.

–Sarah Jane Martin, Chairman of SWDC

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