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Gwenllian
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Heather.....My Rosie is a heavy-weight cob,(With some Shire in her,I'm sure)though not as heavy weight as she was when I got her 6 months ago.If you can picture this...she is only 14.3 HDS,approx 550 Kg, with 12.5 ins bone. with feathers like I've never seen before.Despite her size and age (5 ish) she is getting reasonably athletic,and proving to be really quite good at dressage.However I have this dilemma with dressage.My dressage trainer, for whom I have a lot of respect, looked at Rosie's feathers, when I bought her....and giggled...."THOSE will have to come off".I have since had an awful lot of comments to this effect,that is...when people have stopped laughing at the prospect of something like ROSIE doing dressage in the first place.My problem is, that I'd like to show Rosie in Cob classes,just locally of course, but more importantly than that, Rosie's education was left quite late and I had to send her away for some schooling.Her manners on the ground were atrocious.She would NOT pick her feet up.She either refused,locked her knees straight or leaned on me.She's now MUCH better,Sian worked very hard on that for me,with good results.However, she's still not perfect, and as I can't bend down for long, because of my dodgy hip, I REALLY need those feathers to help me pick her feet up.
I'm told I really can't go into a Prelim Dressage test, albeit Unaffiliated,with a horse displaying feathers like that!! How serious is this. I have the RDA Regional Dressage Qualifiers in May, and I really DON'T want to trim her feathers. Any comments on this, Heather??
I'm told I really can't go into a Prelim Dressage test, albeit Unaffiliated,with a horse displaying feathers like that!! How serious is this. I have the RDA Regional Dressage Qualifiers in May, and I really DON'T want to trim her feathers. Any comments on this, Heather??