This message is from: "SUSAN L GIARGIARI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The programs are in the mail as of the 5th of August and I got mine today! Just wanted to let you all know. The stalls this year are only $20 for members of GMHA! Wow! The price of stalls actually went down!! Yeah!! The Fingerlake Fjord Show was AWESOME! Hats of to all for a great show. Next year it will be 2 days and lots of fun! Camping was on the grounds, we did op for a motel room as I didn't want to trust the weather!! Just could not talk myself into setting up a tent or taking it down in the rain! The show grounds were great, stalls safe and of good size. Upper door(Heavy Fenced) to close if needed. Babies and Stallions will be discouraged from thinking they can pop out the door! I rode Rodejka in Walk, Trot and got the Championship. The Cross Rail Jumps were so funny. Everyone's horse did 3 refusals and Deka refused the first jump 2 times, Rider Error, and then I finally got the hang of it by the 5th jump. She stopped cold right in front of the 6th jump. Never took a step back and I said, Let's go, and over she went! So the judge gave it to us. I never jumped except in the practice ring and a little advice from Marsha! Now, Lori is to be congratulated for her performance in the Sit A Ten class! I rode Dena, with a snaffle, who had a foal in the barn, and thought I was going to be able to stay on!!!!!! Lori got the bucks! My Chiropractor was not happy with me! My Troxel did it's job and cushioned my head as it slammed to the ground! I was only alittle sore the next day. All in all it was a great show and we will be back next year! This will be the last announcement to buy tickets for the NFHA FOAL RAFFLE, to be drawn on August 27, after the show in Woodstock, VT is over. All the Awards and the Raffle will be done at the end. I have the Class list scanned into my Computer so if anyone wants a copy, Privately Email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I will send it to you via email. The Program should be to all of you this week sometime! We usually do our foals, Big Boy Haircuts, at about a couple of months old. I only do the Norwegian Cut (all one length) as you usually can't get the two layers with the soft hair. I have been guilty of letting manes flop and grow over, I don't know how many times, and after being roached off, they grow back just the same way they were before they flopped. I'm talking flopping with about 8 inches long! It looks cool but it doesn't lay flat! Kind of wild looking. What your mane is will be what your mane is, whether you let it grow too long or keep it cut. Have any of you noticed that when you get a good cut mane, with the black about 1/4 to 1/2 inch taller, about two weeks later, you can see the line in the white where it was two weeks ago. That line stays there for quite a few weeks. You can cut down to that line every two to three weeks and your cut will stay great. Of course, when you have about 10 horses, it can be quite a job doing this. I learned how to cut a mane and why it is cut the way it is by ordering Carole Rivoire's Mane tape. Most people think it is a perfect arch. But it isn't. The highest point of the curve should be about 4 inches ahead of the middle. The Middle is at the point between the Bridle Path and the whithers, where the mane stops growing. The white can be cut first on one side. Most people have a good side they can cut from, depending on whether they are left or right handed. Then, when the white is right, you cut the the rest of the mane the 1/4 or 1/2 above the white. You are actually cutting the black with the white from the other side. Get it all even. Stand on something if you need to, this way you can see that it is even and flat. Then when you go to the other side, cut the white down the same length as it is on the other side. I do the part near the bridle path first and you can tell by looking between the ears that it is cut down the same length on both sides. Finish the white to the black, which is done already! One other thing, DON"T take the mane right down to the poll at the bridle path. The mane should stand up behind t he bridle path about one inch or so. This way it looks as if it continues right into the forelock. Sometimes when I have a horse with a thin forelock, I won't cut a bridle path, I just let the hair grow and add it to the forelock. On a Stallion with a huge poll bump?! (You all know what I am talking about!) I definetly do the bridle path! You can wet the mane with a bristle brush to help the hair stand up while cutting. I do it wet sometimes and sometimes dry. The fat manes are hard to do, to get that wide part level. I don't use clippers as, I don't trust my hand when the horse takes a giant sudden step! On the video, it shows you how to cut the mane to give a heavy neck a more pleasing appearance and how to modify the different ones to give that " optical illusion". Hope this helps some of you! Sorry to write on so long! Hope all are enjoying the humid heat wave of the NE! Sue g.