This message is from: Cynthia_Madden/OAA/UNO/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Allison, I have been luckier than you. I have worked with a dressage instructor and now good friend for about seven years. She is into dressage, not into competition, and loves my Morgan (not normally through to be dressage phenomenons). She knows Tank and in fact helped me pick him out. She will work with us to do whatever his build and mind-set (and mine,also) allow us to acheive. Her best dressage horse was a Saddlebred! She only laughs with Tank. I think that whenever one choses an instructor or trainer that it is important to find someone who is flexible and open-minded but very competent. That is why I have not found many I like. But the three women we work with now under saddle and in driving are really great and meet our criteria. They have also all become good friends of ours.
I am constantly surprised by people who find it odd that we still work with instructors and trainers. I find it surprising that anyone around horses thinks that don't need to have someone to help them and keep them on track. You tend to become too comfortable with things when you don't have someone to at least occassionally check you out and correct things that you have just been too lazy to keep going or spot potential trouble or even suggest improvements your horse - woman relationship. Cynthia Madden, Coordinator Office of Sponsored Programs & Research University of Nebraska at Omaha [EMAIL PROTECTED]
