This message is from: Cynthia Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Our driving club had its first ADT this weekend. One of our newer members moved into the area from Phoenix and has a large farm and enthusiasm for ADT's and CDE's so they sponsored the event. They are a huge asset to the club. We also had some help financially from the Arizona Driving Club. Tank did as well as he ever has in his dressage test marked down for lack of impulsion and for lack of submission (for not reponding to my attempts to get impulsion) however he did the rest of the test well. This is in light of the fact that I have been driven to get my landscaping done before the monsoon season and have not been driving my horse. He was very good in the cones section and the hazards (which lacked any challenge but we had mostly green first timers). The temperature reached 112 degrees, unseasonably hot for May. Teddy who pitched a fit when we got ready to leave the house made it clear that lack of impulsion would not be his problem when he is old enough to compete. He has the most beautiful floating trot. Just like daddy. I had to leave Nigel behind as the brand new fencer was out and I was afraid of what Teddy would do if left without a charged fence even though his baby sitter was right in the next pasture. Tank's impulsion has improved since I put him in a neck collar and he was fine in the cones and hazards. He just doesn't like dressage. I had a trainer tell me recently that if I gave her Tank for one week HE WOULD GET IMPULSION! So guess, what, she won't get Teddy (nor Tank) to train which I was considering. He is too smart for her and she will not do right by him. She's too used to Arabs and Quarter Horses (no insult intended really but Fjords are different in their minds and few people understand them).
-- Cynthia Madden Las Cruces, NM [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geocities.com/cmadden88011 An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only on partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias, a people made morbidly obese in mind and spirit by the junk food of propaganda, is less inclined to put up a fight, to ask questions and be skeptical. That kind of orthodoxy can kill a democracy or worse. - Bill Moyers, National Conference on Media Reform St. Louis, Missouri May 15, 2005
