6/ APRIL 2019 THE RIDER MY SPIN: Work In Progress


learning many things. I’m sure that you can guess what my favorite subject is to paint - horses!


One of the challenging things about


learning something new is not being in our ‘comfort zone’. It feels a bit awkward being a beginner and not feeling confident about what you’re doing. Especially as we get older and have expertise in many things. I’m sure you know what I mean. Learning how to ride, learning a new sport. Advanc- ing our skill level. Some people are so un- comfortable about it that they don’t go there.


Of course, that’s what it’s like learning


something new so we all have to go through it. He’s a story I wanted to share about my new challenge.


By Susan Dahl.


Work In Progress Some people may know that I have


an art page on Facebook. (ReinersueArt) I’ve been doing art work for many years. I work in mostly acrylics, graphite and a medium called scratch boarding. I’ve called myself a ‘veteran paint-by-number’ person as I used to do a lot of them when I was a kid - I still do. They’re great for


A study of a horse’s mouth.


ago and noticed an older English gentle- men showing how easy and fun it is to work in a relatively new art medium called pastel pencils. I had some oil pas- tels 30 years ago and I didn’t like how they worked. I love to color so they looked like something I would like to try. I have a few subjects I want to


paint this year like 2 reining stallions that passed away last year and a new foal we’re about to have here.


1st attempt at pastel pencils. I encourage people to try some-


thing new to challenge ourselves. I’ve even joined this English gentlemen’s club to more easily learn about pastel pencils. The awkwardness is only tem- porary and I find that it really does give us new skills to help us. Have you wanted to try something new in the horse world. I hope you do!


Putting my spin on trying new things Reinersue @KISS Reiners


Labels: art Hopalong Cas- sidy learning something new


Putting My Spin On Genetics Reinersue @KISS Reiners


About Susan Dahl Susan


Dahl,


ORHA/NRHA past multi- ple champion, writer, blogger, author and clini- cian, retired certified pro- fessional horse trainer. Owner of Foundation


Reining Training Centre in Durham, ON. She special-


izes in effective horsemanship, and reining. For more informa- tion on her services: judging, clinics or resale horses, please contact her on facebook, her website: www.reinersuehorse- manship.com or reinersue@hot- mail.com


A New Way of Looking At Horses Hopalong Cassidy This past winter was cold and snowy


and my new place was mostly setup. I do have to paint the rooms this year. Another paint project.


An example of scratchboarding.


Working in pastel pencil I was perusing youtube about a month


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ISES conference. It is my most favourite conference to attend, and I have gotten to know amazing people from all over the world, all devoted to improving the quality of life for horses.” It was 2007, and I was a fledg-


By Dr. Katrina Merkies “Since 2012 I have not missed an


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ling professor attending my first Inter- national Society for Equitation Science (ISES) conference in Michi- gan, USA. Having attended previous scientific conferences I had a precon- ceived vision of long boring talks in darkened rooms designed to encour- age napping, interspersed with coffee and cookies, and occasional glimpses of the lovely weather outside I was missing. I couldn’t have been more wrong. From the opening talk on learned helplessness in horses to the closing talk on how rollkur affects horse welfare, I was riveted. I could never have imagined so many people who were interested in training and working with horses in the same way I did. In fact, I didn’t even know there was a term for how I trained horses – learning theory– and a whole scien- tific field devoted to the study of etho- logical practices in training – equitation science. It was like walking into a gold mine. And not only that, but the keepers of the gold were the most warm and welcoming crowd possible. These people weren’t sterile, white-coated scientists. These people were researchers who owned and rode and loved horses just like me. And unique to this scientific society, mem- bership also included practitioners – veterinarians, coaches, riders, trainers and horse enthusiasts of all walks.


My group of students getting to meet Dr. Paul McGreevy (centre) at the 2016 ISES conference in Saumur, France.


ISES conference. It is my most favourite conference to attend, and I have gotten to know amazing people from all over the world, all devoted to improving the quality of life for horses. Professionals whose work I had read and admired I can now call friends. I still greatly admire them, and am honoured to be able to work


able to attend another ISES confer- ence, but that didn’t stop me from em- bracing the field of equitation science both in my own research, and in my own riding, training and coaching. It opened up a whole new world where I could call upon justification of my own training methods. There was a growing body of science that sup- ported my approach to starting a horse under saddle or training lateral move- ments. Since 2012 I have not missed an


It was a few years before I was


registration deadline of June 1. All the details of the conference can be found on our webpage https://thehorsepor- tal.ca/ises-2019/. See you in August!


closely with some of them. I was priv- ileged to be voted onto the board of ISES in 2015 where I serve in the po- sition of Honorary Secretary. I con- vinced my colleagues here at the University of Guelph that hosting an ISES conference would be a great thing to do. My trusty band of 10 ded- icated faculty, staff and industry rep- resentatives having been working hard for almost a year already in planning the 2019 ISES conference aptly themed “Bringing science to the sta- ble.” Stay tuned to this blog for regu- lar updates on the speakers, the program and the workshops taking place at the University of Guelph from August 19-25, 2019. And don’t miss the early bird


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