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Calendar so Far

1/24/2023

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January 20th                                               Bitting Afternoon 
                                                                      Woolstone Oxfordshire 

January 21st                                               Bitting Day and Pony Club Badge Lecture 
                                                                      Darlington Stables Cheshire 

January 23rd                                              Bitting Training 
                                                                      Online 

January 25th                                               Bitting Training
                                                                       Online 

January 28th                                                Bitting Day 
                                                                        Oxfordshire 

February 11th                                               Bitting Day 
                                                                         Coulston Wiltshire 

February 13th                                                Bitting Day 
                                                                          Caerwent S Wales 

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Calendar so far

11/23/2022

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November 6th                                                Covid has struck for 15 days or so
                                                                           Followed by a cough that has still not gone!

November 26th                                              Bitting Day 
                                                                           Plymouth 

November 29th                                               Bitting Day 
                                                                            High Roding Essex 

December 2nd                                                Bitting Day 
                                                                            Churchill Oxfordshire 

December 3rd                                                 Bitting Day 
                                                                            Westbury Wiltshire 

December 6th                                                  Bitting Day 
                                                                             Frithsden Hertfordshire 

December 10th                                                Bitting Day 
                                                                             Baschurch Shropshire 




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Calendar so far

9/28/2022

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Bitting Days 

September 24th                                Bitting Day 
                                                              Swallowfield Solihul 

September 26th                                 Bitting Day 
                                                               St Teresas Surrey 

October 1st                                         Bitting Day 
                                                               Black Brow Farm Cheshire 

October 8th                                         Bitting Day 
                                                                Park Farm Goytre Usk 

October 6th                                         Bitting Day 
                                                                Churchill Glos 

October 11th                                       Bitting Day 
                                                                Aylesbury Bucks 

October 15th                                        Bitting Day 
                                                                  Winterly Cheshire 

October 25th                                        Bitting Day 
                                                                 St Teresas Surrey 

October 29th                                         Bitting Day 
                                                                 Hallingbury Hall Bishops Stortford 

November 5th                                       Bitting Day 
                                                                 Baschurch Shropshire 

November 12th                                     Bitting Day 
                                                                  Shropshire 


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Calendar so far

9/2/2022

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Bitting Days etc 


August 30th                                  Bitting Morning
                                                        Doddington Glouc 

September 3rd                             Bitting Day 
                                                         Sheepgate Lincolnshire 

September 6th                              Bitting Morning 
                                                         Northleach 
                                                         Chipping Norton 
                                                          Aston under Wychwood 


September 8th                               Bitting Day 
                                                         Wendover Bucks

September 10th                            Bitting Day 
                                                         Coventry 

September 20th                            Bitting Day 
                                                        Cheltenham 
 
September 22nd                          Bitting Day 
                                                        Doddington Glouc  

September 24th                           Bitting Day 
                                                       Swallowfield Solihul


September 26th                            Bitting Day 
                                                         Effingham Surrey 

October 1st                                    Bitting Day 
                                                         Altrincham Cheshire 
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Gordons Blog

2/9/2021

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I have moved yards! She claims she told me and I admit she did talk a lot but I didnt really listen and it just sounded like blah blah blah 
I knew something was happening when my box arrived but being a gentleman even though I have not been in it for a year I walked on without a fuss Then after ages [she drives really slowly] we arrived at another yard I didnt know and she put me in a strange stable
​Shocked and not happy but there was lots of hay and a huge bed, she came back later and I was not happy with her 
Then the next day she did not arrive first thing and someone strange put me in an isolation paddock  
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So this is me abandoned and ownerless and depressed I cant eat and my eyes are closed 
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And this is me when she arrives and I spot her and realise I am owed again and I shout at her to make her come over and hug me 

​She claims she didnt want to come too early so she didnt seem like a deranged owner on our first day ! 

But 9am was too late in my opinion 





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Sliding Side Reins for comfortable forward movement

2/9/2021

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​Sliding Side or Vienna Reins:

 

 
Sliding side or Vienna Reins: are one of the most useful items of schooling equipment and can be used either ridden or when lunge schooling. So often schooling equipment can be complicated and restrictive for the Horse.
Sliding Side Reins encourage the horse to find its own balance, accept bit pressure and acquire a comfortable profile in all paces. As the name suggests the contact is a sliding one with the horse’s mouth, there is no forcing of the outline; the horse can alter its profile to comfortably suit the pace. The horses profile, balance and head carriage changes as the paces change if you use a piece of schooling equipment that relies on a fixed position this can mean the horse is not as comfortable in all the paces. 
But as Sliding Side Reins, work on the principle of a sliding contact the horse is able to comfortably adjust its head carriage whichever pace it is in. 
But pressure by the reins is applied when the head carriage is taken too high or the nose is poked too far forward or is taken too low the horse then feels pressure from the mouthpiece of the bit which should encourage the head to return to a balanced carriage. As with all pieces of schooling equipment they rely on the person on board or on the ground to fit them well and then to maintain a steady degree of forward movement, it is not enough to put on a device and then let the horse slop around or alternatively move too fast and compromise good balance.
 
To fit: the reins either fit to the top ring on a lungeing roller or to the top of a driving pad or to the top Ds of a saddle, run along each side of the horse’s neck, passing through the bit ring and then either down between the horses front legs treaded through the girth for a deeper profile or along the horses side to fasten under the flap of the saddle in the manner of side reins or to the bottom ring on a lungeing roller or just above the girth on a driving pad. As a general guide when the horse is standing in a relaxed position at the halt the sliding side reins should be adjusted so that the reins are just taut without drawing the horse’s head in

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