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The Versatility Of Today's Ponies
People use horses for pleasure, work and sports. The term used to describe horse riding talents in their totality is 'equestrianism' Animal Planet has claimed that horses are the 4th most influential animals in the context of the world's economy. The world of horse-related work and play has a huge economy that runs into the many billions of dollars. There isn't any doubt that horses are a fundamental piece of the human environment.
Horses in sports
Horses are instructed to do lots of things: they jump through obstacles in equestrian events and they run their hearts out on the racing tracks. They keep military and police personnel mobile and active. Horse-related entertainment and work go back a great distance into the annals of history.
Events like dressage and show jumping have elements derived from military origins. These activities need rider and pony to exhibit total mutual balance, control and coordination.
Of all equestrian events, naturally, horseracing has often been a big crowd puller. Horses are classified in terms of age or weight and set against each other on the racing track. Horse racing is a big industry in itself, with giant investments in training, physical facilities and, breeding and horse stock. Gambling on horse racing is a just about universally accepted practice.
Rodeo isn't universal, and yet has a very fierce following. It is limited to countries that have ranching histories. Ranching has had a big role to play in the development of rodeo and sports hunting talents.
Horses at work
While horses no longer play the kind of crucial roles they used to in the world's military forces, they're still extensively utilized by both military and police all over the world. In the military, their role is basically ceremonial, while with the police they are mostly utilized for riot control.
Horses are also utilized as vital elements of search and recovery groups in some states, particularly in terrain that isn't easily reached on foot or by motorized automobile.
Horses are still employed in a few countries as draft animals. They're employed in farming and in activities like logging. It has been proved by studies that horse usage helps prevent environmental annihilation or degradation.
Horses and leisure activities
Horses are often utilized in historic re-enactments. With their human counterparts, they are made up to appear like they used to in the old medieval times, when they were dressed for warfare or for events like jousting. They also find extensive use in pictures and on TV, particularly on shows with historical themes and in adverts featuring some products.
Horse drawn carriages are common sights in processions, parades, rides for newly marrieds and VIP and dignitary rides.
They are also used as therapy for disabled folks. There's universal agreement on the efficacy of animals as therapeutic agents, particularly those animals that are gentle and adapt well to human companionship.
Equestrianism has been a crucial part in the human machinery for ages. Horses bring not just real purpose, they also bring relaxing company into human lives.
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Slow Equals Fast With Pony Training
Ever had the advantage of watching a natural born horse person in total harmony with his horse do nonchalant tricks with it that you wouldn't have imagined possible , and cause them to look so ridiculously straightforward? And ever tried out the same tricks with your own pony and made a total hash of it? You must have been pretty frustrated.
If you did anything like that, you were guilty, as so many have been, of forgetting that what seems to be perfect harmony is the results of hard coaching repeated time after time till perfection was reached. We people are regularly guilty of desiring too much too fast without going through the due process. In the case of horses and their accomplishments, we forget that each achievement is the sum total of lots of little steps that have practically become second nature as the results of repeated practice. When we curtly try out something new to our horses, we're going to confuse the wits out of them and achieve nothing apart from total disappointment for both.
Just look at straightforward scenarios involve horse coaching. Take an instance when you're coaching your pony to back up in between two parallel poles laid out on the ground. It may appear to be the most straightforward of tasks to you, but your pony won't agree. You may think that all you've got to do is get him aligned and moving, but he isn't going to be happy with the concept of moving thru two poles of which just one is detectable to each eye. This has a tendency to distract the horse, and they will not even permit themselves to be aligned between the poles. If they're somehow aligned, they will try to work out what has happened by moving their rear ends to one direction. And if you come up with a way to get over that problem then the pony will keep barging into one pole or the other, instead of backing up in a straight line.
Unless you are informed on horse psychology, you will get frustrated. If you do know horses, you will appreciate that horses need to get comfortable with any new action before they can be made to do it. In this case, your pony desires to get used to a pole on each side. You can expedite the process by breaking it up into little bite-size chunks and handling them one at a time.
First, get your pony to stroll forward between the 2 poles a couple of times, so that he gets used to seeing them there and to seeing one pole with each eye. After he goes through like a shot, ramp up the coaching one notch. Get him to stop at random points while progressing between the poles. Get your pony to repeat this till it becomes 2nd nature for him. Finally, get him to take only 1 step backward. Let him take that step and ruminate on it. The stop after just one step is his reward for doing what you wanted him to. Take him thru one or two one step forward and one back cycles at various points between the two poles. Then take him back thru more than one step, even with his body out of alignment with the poles. When he is totally used to the concept of going forward and back a couple of steps (keep increasing the distance), you can walk him forward from one end of the poles to the other, and then get him to back right up. He may start dodgy, but he's going to pick up and soon he is going to be progressing thru the poles either way like he'd been doing it all his life. Remember the old Chinese saying about a journey of one thousand miles beginning with one easy step, it is especially applicable for horses.
You can begin by teaching your horse while you are on the ground, then when that stage has been successfully mastered; you take it to a higher level by getting your pony to do it while you are astride him. Start slow and simple and soon enough you will find that your pony is setting the pace, a faster one.
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The Foundation Of A Champion Horse Is Repetition And Repetition
If I had received a cent for every time I repeated something to a horse, I would've been a millionaire by this point. I start by hammering it into a horse's head I'm actually attempting to communicate something to him. When he has eventually got the idea that I'm really trying to let him know something, I want to tell him whatever it is that I needed to let him know such a lot of times I start sounding like a scratched LP record. This causes me to do stupid things sometimes. I train several horses at diverse steps of coaching concurrently. In itself, this is problematic, because I have track of where I am with each horse. If I've a particularly tough time with any pony, then it takes me a while to remember where I was with the remainder of the horses? And frequently I don't do a good job of recollection. The plus side is, when a horse ultimately begins to get an inkling of what I'm on about, he frequently starts liking it, and then the teaching gets much easier.
My clients have all heard from me that a homo sapien breaks a set habit only after 2,000 repetitions of the ?drop the habit? Tune have been drummed into his head. A homo sapien also need nothing less than 2,000 repetitions to pick up a new habit, and ultimately, he is making a habit a comatose uncontrolled response just when it's been drilled into him 10,000 times. When I explain this to my clients, they get it; they know what can be predicted when they give me a horse to coach. You've got to have a look at the opposite side of the coin, the horse's perspective. When he first is brought to me, he doesn't have any idea he is getting ready to attend school. He actually doesn't even really understand what a school is. He would be astounded if he were informed that he is going to be taught lessons, and that he is anticipated to learn them well. When you look at it from this point of view, you become more understanding of horses.
The repetitions may alter with each horse: each has his own learning curve, just like human students.
You might make bar charts out of a horse's learning curve. A horse can be bafflingly inconsistent: he is going to do good, bad, better or worse with each repetition of the same lesson. Clearly, when you initiate the lesson, he will be at his worst. Just assume that your horse's response to repetition number 121 has been pleasing. Just when you are feeling like giving him a pat, he absolutely muffs repetition 122. Your urge to pat him with your hand all of a sudden becomes a craving to pat him with a sledgehammer. But you can't afford to show your disappointment, so you swallow the bile and go on to repetition 123. He will potentially surprise you once more. When you have reached repetition 307, say, you'll find that all of a sudden he's had an 'Eureka!' moment. He has got the idea, you are actually teaching him something. Though the occasional glitch may continue to surface, you may just about have smooth sailing with him after that.
You will get plenty of variations due to individual pony traits, but the general pattern will be the same. Once you've got past the great wall round the horse's brain, you will be able to see quicker progress. The more time you spend with the pony, the better he learns. He may even surprise you by behaving like he enjoys the lessons.
When does a horse become a good learner? 2 factors decide this point: your teaching methods and the horse's nature. My general experience with the more difficult horses has been that it can take five days every week of classes over 3 months to succeed, but I must advise you that it is best you don't work to fixed schedules with horses. Don't also push your horse too far or too fast. Think repetition, and then think more repetition. Your pony at the initial stages might be wondering why it is that you are trying to show him things he just can't do. Tenacity is going to win that battle for you.
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Transporting Your Horses
One of the most frustrating experiences a horse owner can have is to get into a position where he or she needs to move their pony somewhere far, but can't do so because of the absence of a trailer or horsebox. For horse owners who have never owned a trailer, getting one can seem like a hopeless dream.
I have news for you if you are one of those exasperated pony owners. You can move your horse around without a trailer, however it calls for an innovative approach. You must also be prepared to make some compromises.
If it is a question of transporting your horse to the vet, an often unavoidable need, you may get an offer of help from someone in your yard. If nobody offers assistance, you need to ask for it, assuming that there are people with trailers, because without asking you may not get, and without getting you aren't going to be able to take your horse to the vet. It is usually possible to show your good intentions by offering to pay for the fuel consumed and the usage. If you're intimate with someone who owns a trailer, you can try and fit your competition dates with theirs for the same events, so your horse can hitch rides. Obviously, this suggests that you may have to sacrifice your own preferred events for the events your champion prefers. If you're essentially really lucky, you could even convince your benefactor to take your horse to your own preferred events once in a while. Who knows, you might actually open your benefactor's eyes to the charms of events he hasn't participated in so far. That would indeed work to your advantage.
You need to also participate in events in your own immediate vicinity. The possibility is high that there might not be enough variety or quality of performance in your immediately area. Your options would be very limited as you would have to ride your horse to the events and still keep him fresh enough to participate. Fundamentally, you can just 'warm up' your pony before the event. You also need to consider that after the event he must be ridden back home, and that would further restrain the events you could take part in.
It is awfully expensive to hire a horsebox, nonetheless it will generally be worth it if the event you are attending is particularly distinguished or if your pony has exceptional possibilities of winning something. You might also see if there are more horse owners in the vicinity with whom you could split costs, assuming they will be at the same event you are. Before you complete a contract for hiring a horsebox, confirm that a driver is included in the contract. If no driver is included, and you've got to do the driving yourself, you have to have the correct driving qualification and adequate insurance.
Another option is to buy a horsebox jointly with some others. This is not going to be simple, as you will need to be wonderfully coordinated on who uses the horsebox. If your events coincide, there'll be no problems, but that is a clearly doubtful likelihood. You can only enter into this type of arrangement with someone you are really intimate with, and with whom you enjoy complete mutual trust. Even then, you should execute a comprehensive contract on who pays how much for shared use, individual use, damages, repair jobs and so on. A little argument can destroy an intimate relationship, so you really have to exercise the greatest of care.
Whatever way out of your horse-box-less troubles you find, it should hopefully give you the probabilities you have been desiring for your horse. Even partial mobility is far preferable to no mobility. Each event you can attend without your own horsebox is an additional bonus. Just make absolutely sure that absence of your own horse transport does not become an impossible wall for both you and your pony.
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Building Trust With Your Horse
By nature, horses are gentle and trusting, unless they have suffered abuse. A horse that has been abused, mistreated or hurt will be the other way around: it's going to be dubious, and it is really difficult work to make an abused horse trust folk again. Obviously, all horses are not the same in their natural outlooks: some are rather more peaceful and trusting, and some take some time to absolutely accept their human trainers and riders. No matter what your horse's nature is, it is vital that you show all of the patience and tolerance required to develop a jointly trusting and accepting relationship with him. Only then will your pony feel secure with you.
You may typically have to give extra space and time to a horse that has not suffered mistreatment but is rather shy of nature. You should begin breaking the ice by simply spending time in his vicinity. Move around him, 'no sudden or violent moves, please!' speaking softly. When your pony appears to have got used to your presence, approach him slowly and stand close by holding out a treat. Ensure your hand is opened flat and horizontal with the treat on it, and make sure also that you don't get your fingers nipped, a distinct probability with a pony that has no experience with being fed out the hand.
Eventually the pony will move up to you and take the treat offered. When he does that, stroke his muzzle, moving really slowly and easily. Don't make mistakes like grabbing the halter if he has one on. You shouldn't give the pony any suggestion whatsoever that you are there to trap or capture him. Your experiences with your pony should always be positive, particularly during the initial stages. You need to take care you're not dressed in a fashion that some item of attire flaps around making noise, or hits the horse making it shy, even though it was unintentional. If you're wearing a hat, ensure it is fastened; you shouldn't let it get blown off by the wind spooking the horse.
At the beginning of coaching, always break your horse in to new activities and new objects extremely gently and slowly. You should go at their pace, not your own. If a pony gets spooked or essentially hurt by something that you forced it into, you are going to lose its trust, and lost equine trust requires awfully difficult work to get back. You can prevent negative developments by going slow and observing your horse's nature all the time. When you are acquainted with his nature, you'll be in a position to adjust your approach to him as needed.
Never try to force a spooked horse into a corner. In general, horses try to avoid making any sort of contact with folk as far as they can help it, but when they feel trapped, their survival instincts will take over, meaning defensive actions like pawing, kicking, biting or running over objects or folk in their way.
Reconstructing connection with mistreated and abused horses will definitely take an exceedingly long time. Unless you're a really experienced and qualified horseperson yourself, the best way to work with such horses is to use the assistance of a trainer who has successfully worked with rehab of abused horses. They can be extremely challenging, and it is likely that despite all efforts they'll never trust any human being absolutely again. You've got to be very aware of the signals they send out.
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Four Of The Eight Perilous Horse Sins
Unfortunately horses, like homo sapiens, can pick up some habits here and there. Here is the 1st part of 8 equine vices you have got to nip in the bud whenever you catch them.
Cribbing: When a horse cribs, it implants its upper teeth in a compact surface like the walls of its stall and after arching its neck, starts to suck air in. Obviously, this is a damaging habit as it can end up in significant damage to doors, fences and stall walls. This bad habit is no good for the pony either, as it can cause colic. The unfortunate aspect of the cribbing habit is that once the pony starts, you'll find it practically impossible to get it to stop. You can buy collars that are tailor made for cribbing horses: these collars work in just such a way that when a horse tries cribbing, the muscles in his neck and temple are subject to the kind of pressure that makes him lose interest.
Shying: Horses often back away from something due to fear or nervousness. They can back off when they come across something they're not conversant with and don't trust; they may also back away if they don't want to be touched. While nearly all horses shy at one point or the other, you undoubtedly want to avoid a horse with a pronounced shying disposition, as it can be perilous. If your pony is an inveterate shier, you can teach him with care and patience to get over his nerves and chill.
Biting: Lots of horses don't hesitate to show their teeth, and use them at defined times, like when a girth on them is being tightened. Horses tend to nip if they don't like something. While you shouldn't be concerned about the occasional nip you need to try and keep it from being a habit. Horses with steady nipping bents can be dangerous to others, especially youngsters. Biting is a vice that may be set right.
Pulling Back: A pony has a tendency to pull back when he is not yet 'broken in' to being tied, and someone makes an attempt to tie him. This actual vice could be a dangerous prospect. A horse that's pulling back is likely to trip and fall on his butt; even worse, he will hurt people in the vicinity. You must train your pony to become used to tying. I begin my coaching for my horses with some ground tying. A keyed up pony with a known history of negative reactions to attempts to tie him is certainly not to be used by children and novices.
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Why Count Horse Strides When Jumping
A question that I receive frequently from my students is: when do we start counting strides? When used right, counting strides is a really practical tool that will help you and your pony make light work of a colmbination of jumps. I indoctrinate my students to follow this rule of thumb for counting strides: do so when you come across related lines of maximum eight strides. A lot of jumper/hunter courses include several jumps of this length. Hunter courses normally are composed of a couple of related distances requiring counting. You do come across courses in large jump fields with lengthier lines that really must be counted, but they're mostly designed for top bracket horse riders.
Jumper courses differ somewhat from hunter courses where stride counting is concerned. Jumper courses allow more creativity on the issue of the amount of strides you take with your horse. The maximum 8 rule typically applies; nevertheless jumpers can add strides or subtract them dependent on their horses' stride spans, the event type and the class of competition. Typically , horses need to gallop in jumper speed classes, and this lengthens their strides, and thereby, reduces their number.
Judgment is subjective in hunters, and footage signs, if provided, can help determine the amount of strides needed of any pony. When a course planner shows a line to be seventy-two feet long, he intends that horses take 5 strides over that line. Judges are mindful of this and use this info to help in figuring out the standard of competitors. A horse that seems to zip down a 72′ line would always have a shorter stride than a horse that appears to ramble down. At these events, stride counting is a must as it helps you adhere to what the judge will be looking out for. You know where you stand when you do six strides in a 72′ line and fail to pin well.
There are numerous interpretations to bending lines where there is no footage posted. Where there is no footage posted in long lines, judges will undoubtedly predict that competitors may vary significantly in stride totals. The same line could see competitors totalling 9s, tens and even elevens. In unmarked long lines, judges usually don't hold competitors to any prescribed number of strides.
The intricacy of horse riding events has grown as time goes by. Stride counting is pretty much a prerequisite in today's arena of equine events. In this post, I have barely covered the fundamentals of stride counting. I might stress on learners that it's necessary they get together with knowledgeable instructors to 'walk courses' riders develop experience from every course ridden, and soon they're going to reach the stage where stride calculations become 2nd nature.
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Things To Consider Whilst Towing a Pony Box
When you are employing a horse trailer, it is obvious that you have to exercise lots of care to be sure it is safe for its occupants, for you in the towing auto and for all other drivers you come across.
You need to ensure all items on the tick list given below are checked out whenever you use your trailer:
1. Once you have loaded your horses, carry out a very close inspection. Are the stalls properly secured and the doors tightly closed and latched? Is there any object around loose that might move around and probably harm the horses? Is the trailer soundly hitched, and are the brakes and lights working ?
2. Each trailer features a heavy load limit advocated by the maker. Never exceed your trailer's limit. If you look over your trailer fastidiously, you'll see the maximum endorsed weight somewhere distinguished. You are risking losing control while in motion by exceeding the weight limit. Never forget that for the purpose of stableness, the car utilised for towing the trailer should always be much heavier than its trailer.
3. Before you set off, plan out the journey. Have a preferential route and as many alternative routes as practicable. Try and get information on road closures or serious congestion points and plot your route so that you can avoid them.
4. Drive fastidiously, within all speed limits and without jerkiness to relieve pointless stress on your pony passangers. Drive like you have got an open container of sulphuric acid on your dashboard, straight in front of you. Negotiate corners, sharp turners and traffic lights with care. Look forward and try and predict.
5. If you're going a good way, split up the journey with steady breaks. Each time you take a break, carry out another extensive inspection of the hitch, your trailer and its passangers.
6. Have a Plan B just in case your towing car or the trailer breaks down. Confirm your trailer is covered in your breakdown coverage.
7. Never travel without a complete first aid kit and emergency supplies.
8. Be sensibly equipped for smaller contingencies on the road. Your kit ought to include jacks, jump wires, WD-40, strong flash-lamps, luminous safety cones, insulated duct tape, spare tires and equipment for changing tires.
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The Robust And Majestic Friesian Horse
The Friesian breed horse, a slightly rare horse of black color, traces its origins back to a Dutch province, Friesland. The Friesians give great importance to the breeding of and dealing in their horses. Most monks in the numerous pre-reformation monasteries of Friesland were engaged with breeding of the Friesian horse. These black northerly jewels have since become international items.
Friesian horses are awfully chic, straight out of Grimm Bros and Hans Christian Anderson stories with extended, wavy tails and manes. These horses are a byword for their decidedly surprising friendliness, manners and gentleness. Friesian horses have such calm natures that it is a typical sight in Holland to see them led around with merely a halter. They have become exceedingly popular in the remainder of Europe and the US, and are widely seen in dressage events. They also are used extensively for pleasure riding. Friesian horses and horses with Friesian blood excel in dressage because of their advanced intellect, pleasing appearance, body control and turbo charged power. They're animals of great intelligence, with very co-operative nature.
The Friesian is pretty much unique in its characters: there is not any other horse that matches this breed for the qualities it has. This breed is elegant enough for professional events and powerful enough for use in farms. The Friesian saw action with medieval knights, cavalry units of the 17th century and infantrymen in World War II. This horse is always dressed up in black, with significant features being the luxurious mane and tail, the forelock and the fetlocks.
The Friesian of the current day incorporates two different conformations. The baroque Friesian is extraordinarily strong, and the more modern sport version is finer of bone structure.
Breeding laws for this horse are stringent, and the world has less than a 100 approved studs, of which about 20 are going to be found in the US. It is actually because of these numbers that high-pedigree Friesians are regarded as a rarity here. A highly controlled selection process over centuries gave this horse its distinct movement styles, as also its liveliness and intelligence, not to mention its reliability. For all its gentleness, the Friesian is equally as proud as its human namesakes.
Though it may be hard to conceive of now, this breed came near to extinction several times over the course of history. In the Second World War, serious rationing of fuel forced use of the Friesian's for farming and carriage pulling. This gave a chance for the horse to get back acclaim and for the population of this breed to get back to healthy levels again. The Friesian is simply the world's best carriage horse. It is very popular in the movie industry for its rather flashy looks. The present renown of this breed can be traced back to its role in the 1985 film Ladyhawke. This role brought the breed into the world limelight.
Today, the Friesian is more trendy than ever, for both harness and saddle use. Given its acceptance and versatility, it is here to stay.
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Mastering The Sitting Trot
Join the club, if you find you are having trouble with sitting when your horse is on the trot. All too many riders who are getting trained in the sitting trot face issues maintaining their seat. Lots of these riders have learned the hard way that their seat bones frequently fail to be where they are meant to be: on the saddle. In actual fact you can learn to sit the trot superbly if you try out some straightforward tricks. The results will be immediate.
To begin with, let's redefine the word 'sit' in the frame of reference of the trot. Many riders assume this word indicates passivity. They're wrong. You aren't meant to sit like a brass Laughing Buddha while on the sitting trot. You can enhance your position a heap if you change your idea of the sitting trot: regard it as a process that actively involves you, as well.
Poor sitting trots feed on themselves and degenerate further with time. The whole problem starts with the down movement. The ride fails to remain in rhythm with the horse; he starts to drop into the saddle as the saddle starts its journey back up. The result's a clashing reunion of rider seat and saddle. A horse subject to that sort of impact tends to stiffen up. He will collapse his back, and when a horse does this, the trot becomes a gait that's not possible to sit.
You can properly sit the trot only when you learn how to closely follow your saddle's up and back down movements. This job is all the more challenging because you need to learn to do it on your seat bones.
The positive side of all of it is that you don't need to put your pony to any difficulty while you get yourself tuned into sitting trots. Take it out on a hard chair of wood instead. Sit on the chair with your face to its back, and ensure that the chair is in contact with both of your seat bones. Tighten and loosen each one of the seat bones alternatively, so that one seat bone is up when the other is down. If you find you're not able to do this, you most likely have weak muscles in your butt; though it's also possible that your hips and your back might be too tight. You can bring this area of your anatomy to full strength and suppleness with some stretching, yoga or pilates.
Once you are finished with the chair, it is back to your pony. Sit straight, your back should be straight up over your hips and your seat. Follow your horse's movement with one seat bone at a time. Don't curve your back, and keep your hips soft and flexible to enable you to follow your horse's movement closely. If you have correctly aligned your body, your legs should be well relaxed with the impact being cushioned by your in time motion.
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Equine Sponsorship: How You Can Land Yourself a Deal
Leading sportsmen including jockeys, trainers and even events can be sponsored. In exchange for brand visibility a company will be a sponsor.
You don't need to be an established or well known figure to gain a sponsor deal. As long as you are a regular competitor in your chosen area – be it show-jumping, dressage, or racing – and you are particularly skilled, you are just what sponsors are looking for.
Sponsorship should be mutually beneficial. The benefit to the jockey or rider might be to have some entry fees paid or contributions for the upkeep of the horse. If the company manufacturers a relevant product you maybe given them to use free of charge such as clothing, tack or even a horse box. This often includes wearing apparel embroidered with the company logo and actively being seen endorsing and using their products.
If you are in the early stage of your equestrian career you will probably have to search for sponsorship opportunities but it will be worth the time and effort if you get one. Before searching for a sponsor, decide what you would benefit from most. Choose the companies which you approach according to the equipment or help they have offered to other sponsorship recipients.
Research potential sponsors thoroughly before contacting them. Start by searching for local equine related businesses as they are more likely to support local talent, as it will give them beneficial local publicity. Contact each company with your sales pitch, highlighting your skills, track record and outlook for the future. Draw attention to how they will benefit from supporting you in your venture.
As if your were applying for a job, it is best to deliver your sponsorship letter in person, that way they can put a face to a name and you may be able to make a good impression. You may also have the opportunity to speak directly to someone about the possibility of gaining support from them. It is far easier to present yourself professionally face-to-face than over email.
Once you have secured a sponsor, make sure you follow through on your end of the deal. If you have agreed to wear the branded clothing or display their logo on your website then you must do so. You want to ensure the sponsor continues to support you.
You can also promote your sponsor via social media by tweeting about them or sharing their website on your facebook page. All of these things are easily enforced and show that you are willing to keep up with your end of the deal.
Don't limit yourself to companies which are known to offer sponsorship deals. Think outside the box. These may include companies which offer equine brand design, horse care products or equine chiropractic services.
Bird and Co Equine are a creative agency which has sponsored a number of equine related individuals in the past. Learn more about their equine marketing services at www.birdandcoequine.co.uk.
Getting Your Pony Training Facts Right
In terms of what you could call organized disciplines, pony training is probably one of the very oldest. The homo sapien has been using horses for ages: for war, for work and for pleasure. You may call horse riding a science or an art; as far as I'm concerned it has elements of both. Horse training has had its high crests and its low troughs. One of the highlight eras of horse training existed in the Baroque period, which stretched between the 17th and the 18th centuries. For most people, Baroque was a skilled art form.
It is my considered opinion that horse training is experiencing one of its low spells these days. There is too much importance on commerce and not enough on quality, and that has eroded both the science and the art parts of horse training.
That does not mean, though, that you won't be able to scale extreme heights as a pony tutor.
I think that pony coaching has suffered in quality due to a lot of misunderstandings. I have lost count of the number of times I have come across folk boasting about having trained their horses to lead. It is logical to define training or teaching as actions that enable scholars to procure information they didn't have before and to do something they were not capable of before.
Inherent instinct has a foal following its mummy blindly from the instant of its birth. To do otherwise may be to court death. The mare responds by pointing the foal toward the correct things. Have you ever spotted that all foals are really capable of walking, running and cantering practically the first day of their lives? And they also are fairly adept at stopping and backing up?
In terms of ordinary human use of horses, a new born foal will not be aware of just 3 aspects that it will have to be taught later: how to adjust to a halter; how to carry a bridle and how to put up with a saddle or harness.
What do humans generally teach horses?
We train horses to respond to commands and cues. We teach them to move at our command and to stop at our cue. The pony learns from us about responding to verbal and non-verbal commands and cues.
At this juncture, let's get something straight: coaching can be conducted successfully just when the coach is awfully clear in his mind as regards what he is expecting to accomplish. The effectiveness of coaching can be judged not in the horse's response to a command, but In the promptness and lack of resistance accompanying that response. If a horse takes its time to act on a command, and shows a great amount of unwillingness to respond, it has obviously not been trained well.
A coach can be said to have succeeded in his task only when his charge is programmed to respond like a robot to commands and cues with an unquestioning response that has just about become second nature.
Training can be done with lots of finesse , at the greatest heights of horse riding, an observer will see only the end results. He will not see the cues given by the rider to the horse, because they'll be so refined and practically invisible. That sort of height is reached only with the most perfect of training methods.
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Northwest Community College Equine Studies
Based in Powell in Wyoming, Northwest Community College is a public community establishment offering several two year associate degree courses. One of those courses is in Equine Studies. This programme enables students to achieve a powerful base in equine science, with a perfect mix of theoretical instruction and practical participation in riding horses and in coaching and handling them. Scholars are enabled to take up constructive employment immediately on conclusion of these courses; they can alternatively select further education at other establishments.
Dependent on their set of interests, scholars can opt for either of two Associate programme options. Riding and training comprises the 1st option. Scholars are given intensive exposure to riding, coaching and handling of horses regarding the science of management of the horse industry. Scholars who pass out of this course are enabled to gain fast work in:
- Riding schools
- Training faculties
- Summer camps
- Grooming
- Rider exercising
- Boarding stables
- Wrangling.
Scholars who are not interested in an AAS degree can also enroll in an Equine Care/Basic Riding Certificate course of one year duration at Northwest Community College. This programme makes students proficient riders and well versed in quality horse care, so giving them the type of abilities that they will need to attain success in the world of equines. While on this course, scholars learn equine safety, pony health management, equine nutrition, pony behavior, correct tack fitting as well as riding with safety for both rider and horse. Graduates are empowered for employment as
- Operators of boarding stables
- Riding school aids
- Wranglers
- Guides for trail riding
- Grooms
- Sales personnel
- Sitters at breeding farms.
For those scholars who need to be involved in the sale and merchandising aspects of the equine industry, Northwest Community College also offers scholars an Equine Business Management course for scholars wishing to be concerned in marketing and merchandizing in the equine world. For this course, students aren't required to have a horse.
Students are also able to select the degree in Management of Farrier Business. This degree imbues scholars with the skills necessary for running small firms; it also qualifies them for pro licensing by the American Farrier's Association.
The College's equine studies courses emphasize events, both English and Western, strongly. The programme is terribly competitive, and often accepts less than 40 students yearly. The successful candidates are put thru a course that gets them an Applied Science Associate degree in Equine Studies.
Students are prompted to have more than simple basis experience with riding, though it isn't imperative. This program will benefit students from a 4-H or breed organisation background the most. Scholars are also advised to bring along their own horses. If this isn't possible , arrangements are going to be made so that a horse is prepared for the scholar before their first class. There are no exceptions to the stable charges scholars are required to pay, whether they have brought their own horse or have been given one on arrival at the college. All horses except gaited ones are fine for use by students in the college's equine studies programme. It isn't compulsory that they be registered, but the horses should be sound of health and possess good manners, they're expected to get along well with other horses.
Riding classes are staged at the College's Equine Center Complex, where the stables are situated. The Complex has facilities like a heated indoor arena with a viewing studio, storage of feed, an outside arena, paddocks for turnout, a tack room and wash racks, both outside and indoor.
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Owners Need As Much Training As Their Horses
Most of the time, pets are procured in the interests of friendship. Some pets could be expected to perform certain obligations, like guard dogs are. Typically, though, pets are brought in as playmates for kids. The conscientious dog owner may take his pet to obedience coaching schools, so that it can learn good habits like going outside on calls of nature and eating only when ordered to do so.
Some pets like to be near their human owners at most times, like the dog. This proximity makes it simpler to educate them after you have gone thru some classes letting you know what to train your pets in and the way to do it. The feeling among pet owners appears to be that it takes one class a week over 6 or 8 weeks for training to show effect, whether in the animal owners or the pets. It also takes at least 2 coaching courses to get the pets to respond regularly to commands and perhaps 4 coaching courses to establish reasonably complete command over them. It'd be rather nieve to take your new pet to an obedience tutor and expect to get back a totally unquestioning instantly obeying animal in 6 weeks or so.
Yet, horses seem to be the exception. Folk expect miracles of their horse and the horses' trainers. I've seen a lot of first-time horse owners with very little understanding of riding and even less awareness of training taking on the job of training their horses themselves. Unsurprisingly, all these people with no exceptions run into problems. Rather than getting tamed, their horse appear to become uncontrolled and pick up all kinds of unwelcome behavior patterns. When these pony owners finally give up and follow the advice of their mates to send the animals to a pro trainer, they're expecting the trainer to reverse all the training gone wrong and get the horses to become models of perfect behavior. A good tutor can work a fair deal of sorcery with the animals, but is it truly only the animals that need the training?
Horse owners expect trainers to finish the coaching of their horses inside so many weeks or days. In all their anxiety, they ignore one major element of successful animal training: the coaching of the animal owners themselves. Good trainers can get a pony to do practically everything reasonable the owners expect, nevertheless it will all come to zilch if the owners are also not trained on what is needed from them and how to re-enforce the coaching.
A bad owner can undo a month of good professional coaching in a week.
Think about this: It takes something similar to 2000 repetitions of a command and its enforcement to get rid of a set habit and another 2000 repetitions to condition a new habit. It can take up to 10,000 repetitions to make unconscious acts of habits. Once you know this, you'd be terribly stupid indeed not to realise and accept that the owner needs training in keeping the horse trained just as much as the pony wants training in the first instance. You should also appreciate that it can take some considerable time and effort to coordinate your responses to that of your horse.
Dog owners typically appear to have no problem in committing 20 minutes or so a day to helping their dogs absorb their coaching better. Sadly, it would seem to be very tricky to get pony owners to make the same kind of commitment. One comprehensible reason is perhaps the dog can be kept indoors for the period of time necessary, but the owner has to go outside to the pony. Further, a lot of horse owners are bored by 'basic' training routines, which can be more complicated than getting a dog to sit or come to heel or beg.
Unless they are well experienced, horse owners usually don't grasp quite how much success they might achieve with the right attitude and the right focus. They should learn to take it a lesson at a time, without unjustified expectations of miracles. They must begin with the fundamentals, like following without pulling away while on the lead. It is tricky to train the pony to sit, but without too much effort, it can be made to do stuff like stop and stand in the right position, release to pressure, stand when tied and lead the correct way. These lessons will establish the sort of bond between owner and horse that may later enable excellent rapport while riding or doing any other jobs together. Persistence will shortly bring about a point in time when the owner simply has no desire to stay indoors, but would prefer to be out there doing something or the other with his pony.
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Feeding Horses With Hay Nets
There had been a point in time when I felt nice looking down a barn and seeing a line of pony heads with hay nets attached, moving almost in unison as the horses peacefully chewed away. Like a lot of other people, I thought of hay nets as a cost-effective way of feeding my horses, since there is very small waste and they save on hay and bedding.
I still think so. I also thought of hay nets as extraordinarily healthy. I no longer think so. I have come across repeated information that shows that horses feeding from hay nets and hay racks ingest masses of dust and particles. Horses are best left to feed the natural way, with heads down and feeding off the ground.
Any type of dust: from natural dust, from hay, from manure or sawdust could be a major threat to the health of horses. You actually should make extremely sure your horses are spared from ingesting too much dust every day. To a point, dust cannot be avoided, particularly if you have presented your horses a roomy well-ventilated barn.
If you use fans when it is summer, take care over their locations. Fans kick up more dust when they are at floor level. Mount them up on stall frames or walls. Ensure both the fans and the wiring cannot possibly snag or trip up horses or humans. Take great care when sweeping the aisles. First dampen them a touch and then ply the broom very lightly. Don't try and capture every speck of dust.
Avoid using leaf blowers. It gives me nightmares thinking of what a leaf blower can do. Don't cross the divide between healthy diligence and unhealthy hysteria. After all of your efforts, some dust is bound to stay, so let it don't be over the top.
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How And Why You Should Bridge Your Reins
One of my beginner jump students came to with a problem one day. Her horse took fences with a good deal of energy. While she was quite good at handling him, she had feeble muscles in one arm as the result of some old injury. This muscle weakness worsened as she grew tired, and preventedconsistent contact with both reins.
I thought back to my old jumper instructor. He had taught a strategy of 'bridging the reins' to me once during my days as a junior rider assigned to retrain a retired racehorse. He taught me so well that I bridge my reins nearly as an instinctive reaction whenever I am astride a spooky or overly strong pony with the disposition to tug over fences. Bridging the reins let me achieve consistent contact and therefore better security. The method does not require making my hands harder; it just supplies them with a backup. This allows me to maintain much better control over my horse.
When bridging your reins, hold them normally, but turn your hands just a little to get the thumbs to face each other briefly while adjusting the reins to a bridge. The rein goes thru the thumb and the finger and then across the horse's neck to your other hand, where it in a similar way passes thru the thumb and the finger. You have now allowed for a bridge; take your hands back to their standard position and even the rains out whilst maintain the bridge.
Bridged reins give the rider better security if his pony tries pulling on the reins. Rein bridging is a strategy typically used by cross country riders; this system is also of considerable help to riders who are suffering from the unsafe practice of opening up their fingers and letting the reins slip out, and to riders who from whatever causes tend to constantly lose contact. This system permits the rider to recover contact without fuss and without restricting the horse. It is of great assistance to beginners who are just learning all about judging contact. The strategy has the extra virtue of permitting amateur riders to keep aware of the precise locations of both of their hands in relation to one another; it also helps in keeping the hands spaced right and at the right height.
Riders with an inclination to excessively fuss over their reins and horses who tend to excessively fuss over lack of consistency in contact can both benefit from this system.
You may bridge reins with a single hand and use just that hand to jump. By doing this, you avoid leaning onto the horse's neck and you keep your balance. You are also enabled to execute independent aids like jumping with a hand out at the side. If you'd like to bridge your reins to only 1 hand, take a normal hold of the outer rein and position the interior rein on top of the outside one.
Bridging reins helps you achieve more security, especially when jumping, and also helps you use your hands to help independently.
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Bitless Horse Coaching
Most pony folks accept the bit as a mandatory instrument that's invariably used when training, riding or driving a horse. But does, invariably, necessarily mean that bits are indispensable?
Not really. Don't know if you've ever experienced the fabulous sight of horsemen riding the California and Vaquero styles, but they use no bits? At least, not until such time as their horses are deemed past their prime.
I frequently hear and read somebody asserting that 'I get more control with the bit' I even saw a horse forum post once advising readers on the best bits to use with halters to maintain 'more control', do you really want to know what bits? My response is NONE! I have addressed the issue of horse control in another article. I think about this issue to be of great criticality.
Before going on to anything more, I begin with 2 long lines on each horse I handle. That also means I throw in two rings, a surcingle and a halter with the long lines. Pretty much unavoidably, my first training is on stops. I take the horse on a slow walk and at some particular point command him to stop with a 'Whoa!' I stop walking myself, and that suggests the pony continues on into the longs lines and the halter. This applies force on the horse's nose. He comes to a stop, and I ease off the pressure.
It has been my experience that no pony ever took more than a day to work out that it was far smarter to stop straight away at the command 'Whoa!' than to resume on and grind into the halter and the lines. I achieve twin objectives with this: I'm saying an oral command's domination and I teach the pony to respond to awfully slight pressure.
Is it actually possible to ride a horse with merely a halter? It is pretty much possible , though there will not be much to show by way of elegance.
You can resort to either the, Hackamore, or the Bosal. I am biased in favour of the Spanish-looking Bosal. If you trained your pony with long lines, you should find this a breeze. The basic trick is to train your pony to respond to the lightest pressure.
This also allows you to surmount some problems associated with bits.
Unless you're a perfect rider with long experience, you would have a tendency to apply pressure on the bit unwittingly. That obviously makes it very uncomfortable and confusing for your horse. When you are starting out with a horse, it won't give you perfect stops right away. That forces you to heap on some pressure. This in turn leads to the horse giving more attention to the pain it feels than to your cues.
Probably the largest disadvantage of bits is that riders tend to rely exclusively on them, and eventually they lose their effectiveness as the horses get inured to them. To compensate, riders use bits with increased leverage, which leads to another cycle that ends in futility.
You achieve great coordination when you train horses without bits because they achieve much greater sensitivity.
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Using Trained Horses To Help Bring On Your Novices
There are two attitudes you can adopt when referring to horse training, when you have the first of these attitudes, you find coaching slow, hard and drudgery. You wouldn't be wrong on the "slow and hard" part. If you are blessed with the second attitude, you find training tons of fun. You are moulding one of god's most wonderful creatures to your specifications.
If you are one of those lucky ones who find coaching fun, you need to believe that you can make it even more fun if you use another pony.
You can use other horses to huge advantage if you are training horses that are still terribly young. Here's some clarification on what I mean.
I've a fairly standard methodology for training foals. My first concern is to get them used to my presence. I even touch them and scratch them and groom them delicately to get them used to human touch and handling. When they are comfortable with me, I put my hat on them. I have my reasons for doing this. My hat desensitizes the foals, ears and other areas around the head. Since it's a completely new and possibly dangerous object for foals, they have to learn how to trust me that there is no harm intended, especially since the hat impedes full vision.
This is where the other horses come in. Without them, the process would be more lengthened and involve harder work. With them, my objectives are met quicker. Since my horses all hang around in a herd, I put my hat on every one of them close to the foal I'm training. These older horses are completely indifferent to my hat, and so they show no reaction whatsoever. Every time I am taking my hat off a horse, I praise that pony fulsomely.
I achieve a big benefit by doing this. When the foal sees other horses accepting the hat without any reaction whatsoever, it understands the hat is something of no consequence at all, negative or otherwise. And when the foal hears the praise the other horses get after wearing the hat, it understands also that there has to be something excellent about wearing the hat. The natural consequence is that the foal loses fear of the hat.
I once had a definitely revealing experience with four new Morgan mares I got from Montana. They'd not been trained or handled beyond being halter broke. I had 2 adjacent paddocks, and I put the mares in one and utilized the other for training them. I don't think I have ever had an easier time. All I had to do was bring in one of my trained mares and make a massive show of picking her feet up and cleaning them. Obviously my trained mares endured the process with total detachment. It was a piece of cake attending to the new mares after that. I was amazed when the last mare really lifted her front foot up in expectation as I approached her!
In the first stages, I had to go into their paddock and bring them out one by one for their coaching. About a week later , they were all swarming at the gate, waiting for me, as if each mare was willing for me to choose her first.
When you use a trained pony as a form of motivating factor for an untrained one, you aren't only adding to the fun side of coaching, you're also making it very easy for the untrained pony. You'll be stunned how observant horses can be. I have frequently seen them learn by watching other horses. You can take advantage of this feature if you stick to one practice: praise each trained horse extravagantly for whatever demonstration it helped you give: the praise mellows the untrained horses and makes them hugely receptive.
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Leading Strategies To Successfully Find Horses For Sale
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Acquiring excellent advice, a step-by-step guide which will keep you on the proper track, is your main remedy to success. Not accomplishing this correctly, or carrying it out poorly, leads to terrible results. You can finish up browsing a website that doesn't answer all of the info you'll need, and/or possibly end up buying horses from unreliable businesses.
The 3 highly recommended actions listed below can help you steer clear of the traps and failure and help you to succeed.
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However, have your own personal set of factors to think about while doing this. This may enable you to get rid of the internet sites which you may deem less useful for you. Failure to complete this may well just end you up dealing with companies that could not match your expectations and one that may not answer all of your wants. So do not make the mistake of ignoring this essential step! Next, whenever you have completed your list, you can compare the forms of horses for sale, price range, breed, and also the services that they offer.
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Reading this write-up should make it a good deal less difficult for you to maximize garden offices for your business. Do you want to maximize garden offices for the business or perhaps use mobile field shelters? Read more to find out the method to do so.
To begin with, you must understand that even when you're working at home, you still have a responsibility to your business. There has to be a line drawn between your family matters and your business. Set a particular business time which you are able to follow routinely like you would do if you have to go to an office. Set your work time depending on the time of your customers too. Decide when your clientele are accessible for follow up or for meetings. Figure out the kind of administrative work you will also need as well as the time you will have to invest on them. All of these factors needs to be considered. This really is actually essential so you are able to have a separate time and focus on work and family matters even when you're within the convenience of your home.
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Cotterill sickened by Doughty chants
Steve Cotterill slammed a section of Derby fans who sung distasteful songs about former Nottingham Forest owner Nigel Doughty during the east midlands derby at Pride Park.
Steve Cotterill slammed a section of Derby fans who sung distasteful songs about former Nottingham Forest owner Nigel Doughty during the east midlands derby at Pride Park.
Derby claimed a dramatic 1-0 victory but the post-match talk was dominated by shocking chants about Doughty, who was found dead at his home at the age of 54 last month. The Rams will issue a formal apology to their nearest rivals after chants of "where's your chairman gone?" and "you're going down with your chairman" from a small section of the home support.
Cotterill paid tribute to Doughty, and said: "(Derby boss) Nigel (Clough) will probably be embarrassed by that, I would imagine. Nigel is a good man, I get on very well with Nigel. I'm sure he would be very disappointed with that. And most people who have chanted that, they need to be ashamed of themselves."
He added: "What have they done coming out to a football match and come out with that about Nigel Doughty? They need to be ashamed of themselves. They've used football as a carriage to open it up.
"Unfortunately what you can't do and what Nigel can't do, is he can't stop those thousands doing it.
"God bless his soul Nigel Doughty, he was top man for this football club, one of the best chairman that has probably ever been in the Championship. Not just because of the way he funded it, but because Nottingham Forest was his life as well.
"The worst part about it was that we haven't got a result, but he would have been pretty pleased with our effort and commitment."
Clough said the Rams would investigate the chants and issue a apology to Forest.
He said: "The club will do that (apologise), we'll do that officially with the club and Tom Glick (Derby chief executive). We'll have a chat about that later and get something out officially."
Asked about an investigation being launched, he added: "I'm sure we will look at it in the next few days. I'm the manager of the football, that's more of a club issue. I was aware of a couple of chants, but you get so engrossed in the game."

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The season began with a question.
Why not us?
When the season ended on the ice at Brown University's Meehan Auditorium, the Warwick Lady Titans had their answer.
Warwick's co-op squad captured the state girls' hockey championship with a sweep of two-time defending champion La Salle in the best-of-three finals series. The Titans scored two early goals in Thursday's game one and held off a charge to win 2-1. Friday night, with a partisan crowd behind them, they rallied from a 1-0 deficit and rode the MVP performance of freshman goalie Gabriella Dicomitis to another 2-1 victory and the series sweep.
The Titans are the first public school program to win the top division title since the Rhode Island Interscholastic League introduced girls' hockey in 2002 and the first Warwick public school team to win a hockey championship since the Toll Gate boys won back-to-back titles in 2004 and 2005.
Warwick's run to the title capped a meteoric rise for a program that first laced up the skates just eight years ago and played in Division II until last season. It also answered that question, the mantra that the Titans had embraced from day one.
Why not us?
There was no reason.
"No public school has ever done it, so we basically said, 'Why not?'" said Dicomitis, the MVP. "We had the team, we had everyone, we had forwards, defense, goaltenders so why not us? We did it. It's awesome."
The Titans were the No. 2 seed in the playoffs after finishing one point back of La Salle for first place. They won two of three from Bay View in their semifinal series and then matched up with the Rams, whom they'd lost to twice in the regular season.
Their appearance in the championship series was already historic. The Titans were the first public school program to get a shot at the top-division title since the first season of RIIL girls' hockey.
But Warwick wasn't satisfied with being there.
Madison Balutowski gave the Titans a 1-0 lead just 1:46 into Thursday's series opener and Paula Cavanagh followed suit less than a minute after that. The Rams made a strong push in the final period and made it 2-1 with 3:39 to go, but the Titans kept them off the board the rest of the way, with Dicomitis making key saves and defenders blocking shots left and right.
On Friday, the Rams picked up where they left off and dominated the early action, taking a 1-0 lead less than three minutes in on a power play goal by Michaela McNamara. But the Titans had answers. Kelsey Holmes tied the game in the second period, and Abby Ellis gave Warwick the lead with 9:27 left in the third. After holding off another furious charge by the Rams in the final minutes, the Titans celebrated a history-making championship.
"This team, nothing was going to deny them," said Warwick head coach Dave Tibbetts. "Everything was bouncing our way pretty much. We battled for every puck the best we could. Our goalie played outstanding. We got some timely goals. We played disciplined. The kids just gutted it out."
For all the program's recent success, the Titans had still never won a playoff game before this season.
Now, they've won some very big ones.
"It's the greatest feeling in the world," said Ellis, a junior. "I didn't expect anything like this this year. We just worked so hard and we deserved it."
The series clincher required plenty more work. Just over a minute into the game, Warwick's Savannah Hersey was whistled for an interference penalty. A night after flawlessly killing four penalties, the Titans had no such luck this time. On the left edge of the slot, McNamara took a pass from the right circle and one-timed a shot into the net for the 1-0 lead just 2:27 into the game. Martha Peppes assisted.
It was a tough spot, but the Titans didn't panic.
"We keep preaching about not getting too high or too low during a game or during the season, and that's helped us maintain our mental focus," Tibbetts said. "We were getting some good opportunities and we just had to wait until we got one to go in. We were staying positive. We just kept working. One goal we didn't feel was going to win the game."
The Titans spent much of the rest of the period on the power play, with the Rams picking up three penalties, but they came up empty on each chance.
They still trailed 1-0 into the final minutes of the second period, but that's when Holmes gave them life. She blocked a La Salle pass at the blue line then tracked down the puck in the neutral zone. With a defender chasing, she cut to the left then juked back to the right and gave herself an open look. She fired a wrist shot past La Salle goalie Kathryn Doorley and into the net, tying the game with 1:48 left in the period.
"I just did everything I could," Holmes said. "Once I looked up, I knew it was time. I just shot it. Then I fell and everybody was on me."
The goal gave the Titans a jolt as they headed to the locker room in a 1-1 tie.
"That's the kind of player she is," Tibbetts said of his sophomore forward. "She can come out and put a surge on like that with just her individual effort. We needed that. That was a big lift, obviously, momentum-wise. It got us going – not just the momentum of the goal, but the type of goal it was. We talked in the locker room about the type of goal she had and letting that inspire everybody else. The effort was just tremendous."
And the Titans weren't done.
With 9:27 left, Ellis intercepted an attempted clearing pass by the Rams at the right point and immediately rifled the puck toward the net. It deflected off the stick of a La Salle player and past Doorley.
"Our plan was to put it on net as much as possible," Ellis said. "I just got the puck and shot it and it got deflected in. I was in shock."
While the deflection was a stroke of luck, the blast – and the lack of hesitation – by Ellis set it up.
"She shot it hard," Tibbetts said. "We keep telling them, the harder you work, the luckier you get. Maybe we got a bounce there, but it was still putting the puck on net."
A little over nine minutes stood between the Titans and a title, but they knew from the night before that it would not be an easy nine minutes. The Rams had come at them hard as they tried for a tying goal in game one. Now they were primed to do it again.
"I was just thinking, 'I've got nine minutes left and then I can cry and jump and celebrate,'" Dicomitis said. "I knew I had to play my game and not let up any goals."
The action was up-and-down for the next few minutes, with Doorley saving a shot on a Holmes breakaway and Dicomitis turning away McNamara on a quick turnaround shot from the right circle.
Over the final four minutes, the Rams dominated possession but could never break through. Maleah Gillette and Emily Coughlin had slap shots blocked and McNamara was denied on a shot from a tough angle on the goal line.
With 1:44 left, the Rams pulled Doorley, but Warwick cleared the puck twice. With 48 seconds left, Ashley DeFusco got a decent look on the right side but her wrist shot was saved. After a faceoff a few seconds later, a scramble in front of the net ensued, but Warwick knocked the puck to the corner.
With 36 seconds left, another challenge was added to the mix when the Titans picked up a penalty. But even with a six-on-four advantage, the Rams never got another clean look.
Ellis won the faceoff after the penalty and Given buried the puck in the corner for a solid 10 seconds. When La Salle finally got it out, Gillette's pass from the goal line to the point sailed all the way to the other end. The Titans gave chase and never let the Rams get the puck back into the zone.
"I think what starts to happen is late in the game, you're down by a goal, you grip the stick a little tighter," said La Salle head coach Sean McNamara. "Maybe some poise would be better, but they're laying it on the line, pushing as hard as they can. I couldn't be prouder of how hard they battled."
For the Titans, the furious finish was nothing new. They were up to the challenge.
"Just another fire drill," Tibbetts said. "We somehow came out with it. We tried to keep it to the corners, not worry about clearing unless we had an opening. They know the situation. They've been through that and they're used to it. Not that it was easy, but they just fought as hard as they could. They wanted it and they got it."
When the buzzer sounded, sticks and helmets and gloves went flying. The Titans piled onto Dicomitis as their fans went wild.
"I'm speechless," said senior captain Jaime Given. "We went from literally last to first in four years. It was crazy, hectic, hard work, but in the end, it was all worth it."
Dicomitis made 17 saves in game two on her way to the Alice Sullivan MVP award.
"You can't put it into words," Dicomitis said. "You're speechless the entire time. We did it. It's amazing. I'm on top of the world right now."
The rest of the Titans were right there with her.
"It means everything," Holmes said. "We worked so hard every single day. We're a family. It's an incredible feeling."
See Warwick Lady Titans' highlights of the two games of the Championship Series on the YouTube account of "Robert Savage; the specific link is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa-ZW631mrI


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StoryVM needed a new button or icon design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 16 designs submitted by 4 freelance designers.
Now you can help design a cool icon, logo and splash screen for the Freeciv.net project.
Freeciv.net is an open-source turn-based strategy game. It's built entirely in HTML5 and features in-depth game-play and a wide variety of game modes and options. Your goal is to build cities, collect resources, organize your government, and build an army, with the ultimate goal of creating the best civilization.
Please see http://www.freeciv.net for more information.
The target audience are gamers playing casual games on the web.
The images which will be designed in this contest will be displayed on Facebook, Twitter, Google Web Store etc.
The Freeciv.net project needs help with graphics design with a new icon/logo/splash screen.
Icon/Logo should be usable on Facebook, Twitter, Google Web store.
Please see the http://www.freeciv.net website, and use your imagination to create an image which looks nice.
These are the sizes that I would like to use the image in:
Web application Icon:
Facebook: 200x200
Twitter: 73x73, 48x48
Google Web Store: 128x128
Project Logo: 768x148
Splash Screen: 768x768
Icon, Logo, Splash Screen must contain the text "Freeciv.net".
The images must look nice on both a black and a white background.
The old logo is attached.


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Tawheed Kader様は99designsでロゴデザインコンペを開催しました。
BrainTrust.io (http://braintrust.io) is a private social and collaboration network. Unlike traditional social networks where everything is public and collaboration tools that just focus on Tasks and Milestones, BrainTrust is about fostering relationships, sharing, and having meaningful conversations with a small group of people you really care about.
With our web-based app, you (and other people part of your BrainTrust) can easily share links, videos, pictures with a each other. You know exactly who is in the BrainTrust, so you no longer have to filter what you say like you do in public social networks.
We are targeting small groups (think of them as cliques) that are tight knit and want a place online for sharing stuff with each other. This includes families, small teams and best friends.
The key person we are targeting is the girl (or guy) that glues a group of close friends together. This is the person that usually plans the gatherings, reunions or weekend trips (or the leader of a small team) -- we want to appeal to this person by showing that she can create a BrainTrust on our site and use it to bring the group of people even closer together.
Most importantly, we want to make everyone feel AWESOME and CLOSER TO EACHOTHER because they are using our service.
1. We're at a slight disadvantage -- we do not own http://braintrust.com, but do own http://braintrust.io and http://braintrustio.com. We'd like to call ourselves BrainTrust.io. The IO is an important part since we want to communicate our URL in our name.
2. We are targeting small groups, and mainly the leader of the small group. We want our logo+colors to be simple, approachable, friendly and exuding trust. Use your creative talents to make it unique and memorable.
3. We want our target audience to feel cool and special, for using our product to bring together a group. Kind of the feeling you get when you find this awesome new restaurant and invite all your friends to meet you there because you know they'll love it.
4. Inspiration: 37signals.com, Vimeo.com, Tumblr.com
PSD or AI with vector versions, all layers and fonts included
All layers and fonts must be included.
1. Do not use stock images or clip art in the logo. We are looking for original work.
2. I reserve the right to end the contest sooner and elect a winner or extend the time of this content, should the logos provided not be satisfactory.
3. Contest decision and selection is final. Winning logo and favicon plus design work must be submitted within 24 hours at the end of the contest.


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Thanks to LG's Flickr, we now know that 3D gaming on the Xbox 360 is possible - with LG 3DTVs, at least. The details are sketchy due to the translation, but it appears they'll be sold together in South Korea.
The Flickr account, after translation, says that LG and Microsoft Korea have entered a "strategic partnership" to bundle the Xbox 360 and LG's LX9500 (which will come in 47- and 55-inch sizes when it goes on sale this May/June) 3DTV model together. In South Korea, more than 1000 stores will apparently launch 3D gaming areas showing LG 3DTVs and Xbox 360 gaming, with the initiative being rolled out to Asia-Pacific regions. No word on whether the Western world will see any love from LG and Xbox 360, sadly. [LG Flickr via Engadget via Kotaku]


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Historic. Unbelievable.
Yes. We. Did.
This is for real, right? I mean, they can't take it back? We are Democrats after all. Don't underestimate us -- we can still manage to screw it up.
I feel strange. We won. That's an odd thing for me to say. Let me try it again. We won. I kind of like the sound of it.
I think I like winning. You know, it's better than losing.
It's sort of an unfamiliar sensation. I'm not sure I'm suited for it.
What a day. I just sat on the sofa with my six-year-old son, and I told him to remember this moment the rest of his life. This is up there with July 20, 1969. I'm so glad I got a chance to see this.
Change has come.
04 November 2008
Change Has Come
Posted by shadowfax at 10:04 PM
27 comments:
It's wonderful! Believe it and be happy!ReplyDelete
Yes WE Can!
Yes we did! This is my first presidential ballot that I have cast, and what a historic day it has been! I'm still riding the adrenaline high of watching the map turn blue, one state at a time.ReplyDelete
- Gingerale11/04/2008 11:41 PM
Yes, we did it! We all did it and I feel so happy tonight. Moving forward with dignity into tomorrow.ReplyDelete
Sleep well tonight, ShadowFax and anybody reading here who did anything to help this happen.
Tomorrow we survey the debris of the last 8 years. Tonight is tonight and -- Yes! We! Can!
You sound like a Cubs fan or something.ReplyDelete
Go drink some champagne!
I adjourned exam prep for a few hours to watch this historic event. Good to see you many of you voted!ReplyDelete
Hope this leads to good things for your country.
Yay! And I got to see most of his speech (yay for patients staying away tonight).ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11/05/2008 4:44 AM
Be careful what you wish for, you might get it.ReplyDelete
Congratulations. You guys won a convincing victory.ReplyDelete
As per our bet, I just added you to my blogroll.
I cried I was so happy! And today I'm glowing and hoping that we can work together as a country.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11/05/2008 6:49 AM
This is as exciting as the day Ted Kennedy killed a girl? You have an odd threshold of excitement.ReplyDelete
Nice to see Obama get a job in management, finally, though.
I feel much more hopeful now than I have in years. Finally, the people have rejected fascism.ReplyDelete
Be careful. Obama's presidency will set the tone for race relations for the next 100 years. Will Obama's presidency be about getting revenge on the European-Americans? Or about all of us getting along ala Martin Luther King Jr?ReplyDelete
chuckr44, Obama's mother was white. His grandmother, the woman who had the most influence in his life, was white. He never played the race card in his campaign, although he did (and rightfully so) go after the disenfranchised black vote.ReplyDelete
I don't think you have to worry about revenge or reparations being an issue. This has the potential to be a healing Presidency. People all around the world are celebrating Obama's victory.
Anon 7:49:ReplyDelete
I was referring to Apollo 11.
- Anonymous11/05/2008 10:27 AM
364 EV and counting!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11/05/2008 12:23 PM
Congratulations from the Middle East!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11/05/2008 12:40 PM
Anon 10:27, you must be optimistic about NC, or you have inside connections somewhere. I don't think they've called the state yet... that would make 364... no "and counting."ReplyDelete
I can't get this stupid grin off my face... nor stop my feet from doing their Happy Dance.ReplyDelete
What an amazing and wonderful thing, and I feel blessed to have been able to participate in it.
Oh lord, now I'm crying.
- Anonymous11/05/2008 2:40 PM
Twit? Why, sir, you offend me!ReplyDelete
I think the Kennedy thing is a better example for you. The Apollo moon landing was a falsh in the pan, not to be repeated. Mary Jo Kopechne is still...dead, and Ted Kennedy is still the most highly revered Democrat there is.
I don't even know what to say to that.ReplyDelete
Maybe I'm the only one, but I've never heard anyone except a bartender at the end of a long night claim to 'revere' Ted Kennedy, any more than I've heard Republicans seriously claim that Bush is smart.ReplyDelete
I do tend to tune out the D&R zealots though, so I suppose it's possible...
- Anonymous11/05/2008 5:35 PM
Check out the Democrats in this story:ReplyDelete
""I'm getting chills just thinking about it now talking to you"
Revered. Obama wanted him to speak. At Obama's convention.
...and not a moment too soon (actually, I would have liked to see it happen eight years ago)!ReplyDelete
What a wonderful night to be apart of!
Something has already changed: No one is bi-racial anymore, they are "black". We reached a bipartisan agreement in the break room today at work that this is whack.ReplyDelete
I am still crying and smiling from last night. After living thru 2000 and 2004 in South Florida, last night was sweet.ReplyDelete
Watched the returns with my Fruit Store peeps. We screamed when it was announced that Obama won. Then screamed even louder when it was announced that CO turned BLUE.
Yes, We Can. And Yes, We Did.
ps- I got the Apollo reference :-)
- Anonymous11/06/2008 7:22 PM
Change? I sure hope so. I guess we'll see.ReplyDelete


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Breaking Hearts
Hannah Montana will no longer party in the U.S.A. ... cause she's dead -- this according to Miley Cyrus.
Miley dropped the bombshell during last night's "Saturday Night Live" opening monologue ... but didn't go into detail about how H.M. bit the dust.
The singer also talked about her infamous VMA performance -- and said she's done twerking ... 'cause "white people" made it lame.
Not one peep about Sinead O'Connor.
R.I.P. Hannah Montana 1992-2013


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On October 15, 1965, in a demonstration staged by the student-run National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam, the first public burning of a draft card in the United States takes place.
These demonstrations drew 100,000 people in 40 cities across the country. In New York, David Miller, a young Catholic pacifist, became the first U.S. war protestor to burn his draft card in direct violation of a recently passed law forbidding such acts. Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation later arrested him; he was tried, found guilty, and sentenced to two years imprisonment.


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Little Giants Muscle Past Hanoverby Jocelyn Hopkinson '15 • September 14, 2013 Share:
Pettiford explained in the Wabash cover two defense the play was designed to bait Hanover into throwing the ball into the flats giving defensive back a chance to jump the route.
Putko orchestrated five scoring drives on his first seven series, leading the offense to 31 of Wabash's 38 first half points.
"When we're getting the ball inside the 30 every time, there's not much to it," Putko said. "Just execute and the rest will take of itself."
Putko earned his first touchdown on a bubble throw to Houston Hodges, who knifed his way into the end zone from seven yards out.
On the first play of the second quarter, Putko made perhaps his best throw of the day threading the ball into tight coverage for a 26-yard score to Sean Hildebrand, 21-0. Hildebrand caught four passes for 66 yards.
Wabash then turned to its ground game. Tyler Holmes carried the ball eight times in the second quarter for 96 yards and two touchdowns, including one 71-yard run that came up just short of the goal line. He finished the day with 146 yards on 19 carries.
Ian McDougall converted a 31-yard field goal late in the quarter to give the Little Giants a half-time lead of 38-0. McDougall converted two field goals and made all nine extra point attempts.
As Putko noted, the Little Giant defense and special teams made life easy. The Panthers crossed midfield just once in the first half, and it was only to the Wabash 49.
"We feel like our defense can have a really strong year," Raeburn said. "We have a lot of talent and experience on that side of the football. We were happy to see it pick up where it left off last year."
Nate Scola set the pace for the defense with six tackles including two sacks and two more for loss. AJ Akinribade posted similar results; he had five tackles, two sacks, and two-and-a-half for loss.
Pettiford, Eddie Cmehil, Jack Montgomery, Andrew Gibson, Denzel Wilkins, and Peter Fouts each snagged interceptions. The group added up 103 return yards — 58 more than the offensive output for Hanover. Raeburn felt the pass rush was just as responsible for forcing the interception as was the coverage.
"No matter how good the quarterback is, he's going to struggle if he has pressure," he said.
Wabash starters only committed one penalty in the first half — a vast improvement compared to last year's opener at Hanover when the team caused 15 thrown yellow flags.
"When you play the first game, that's a huge fear as a coach," Raeburn said. "We had some penalties and very few mental errors. Particularly considering it was the first game, I thought our guys were focused in."
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a throwback to Miuccia's bread 'n' butter - PRINTS!!! simply dubbed the "Print Collection", Prada will be releasing these '50s Stepford Wife duds and dresses in the month of May.
i remember a looong time ago when chloe sevigny was talking about her first collab with opening ceremony, saying that she always loved CALICO prints, ever since she was little. from then on, floral prints were sprouting on everything - dresses, tops, headbands, purses...and the list goes on and on.
very spring/summer appropriate, but a tad too girly for my taste.
via nitrolicious