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Louisa Zai & Bobbi Socks
The Fort Worth Dressage Club Randy Gillis
Safely Riding with Friends By Bev Roberts & Jean Green
Here are some tips for you and your friends to
help keep you all safer during your trail adventures. • Stallions should be identified with yellow rib-
bons tied to the halter/bridle and in the tail. You and your friends may know that horse is a stallion but oth- ers you come across on the trail may not. Others may ask the reason for the yellow ribbons. This is an op- portunity to explain their purpose to them. Someone riding a mare in heat may appreciate the heads up. • Horses prone to kick should be identified with
red ribbons tied in their tails. • On flat narrow trail, keep at least one horse
length between your horse and the one you are fol- lowing. If you cannot clearly see the hocks of the horse in front of you, you are too close. Allow more distance at a trot or canter. • On roads or two-track lanes, when riding
abreast maintain a reasonable space between horses. Crowding too closely assures that if one horse spooks or bolts all riders in the group are at risk. Give your- self a little cushion of safety space. • When going up and down steep hills, keep sev-
eral horse lengths between horses. If one horse loses its footing, you and the others will not be part of a domino effect of one horse bumping into another and so on down the hill. • When negotiating any kind of hazardous trail
wait until the horse in front of you has cleared the hazardous section before proceeding. • After clearing a hazardous place on the trail,
wait to see if the rider behind you made it OK. Inse- cure horses crossing dangerous obstacles need to focus on the trail and not be worried about the horse in front leaving them. w
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(FWDC) is devoted to dressage and provides dressage activities for its members. We work throughout the year to provide educational opportu- nities. We host a Spring schooling
show, a June Recognized show (at Los Colinas Equestrian Center June 2 & 3 - more info at
www.showsecretary.com) , a low cost clinic with a local professional (this year Louisa Zai will be in Fall), a scribing clinic in summer, a pool party in summer, and an Adult Camp in the Fall (this year with Whit Watkins). FWDC also puts on an Annual End of Year Awards Banquet and Silent Auction with money raised going to our Scholarship fund. Well a scholarship fund with a twist. It is for members who volunteer and is awarded so that individuals in need can pursue their dressage skills.
Weekly group e-mails are sent out to members with updates and information on what is going
on in dressage community. FWDC's schooling show May 6th at Blue Moon Equestrian Center in Granbury was a big
success. Judge and "L" graduate and Region 9 Director Bess Bruton was positive in her remarks, FWDC had lots of volunteers to make sure everything ran smoothly, a wonderful lunch banquet put together by Renee Smith our Treasurer, and very helpful staff at Blue Moon. All in all, it was a success! Congratulations to members who showed at the Fairfield Dressage Show at Diamond T in
Aubrey. Caroline Sibley riding Barbara Harty's Lenox was First Level Reserve Champion! Please visit our new web-
Lindsay & Rulon
Renee,
site
www.fortworthdressage-
club.com and be sure and look at the great pictures of our members. Please join us for our
monthly meetings always the 4th Monday of each month at 6:30 PM at Szechuan Chinese Restaurant off of Bryant Irvin - FWDC welcomes all levels of riders on all breeds of horses. We added Gaited Dres-
sage and Western Dressage to our schooling show and would love to have those per- sons interested in our newest divisions join us! w
June 2012 SouthWest Horse Trader 39
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