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Windsor Equestrian Center teaches core riding skills at the pace of the rider and horse. No high pressure tactics to burn out either the rider or horse, only an enjoyable experience learning to listen to your horse Read More
Liz S won the gold medal in dressage at the OHSET competition. Liz is a senior at Redmond High School and plans on pursuing vetrinary school after graduation. Liz has trained at Windsor for four years.
Read MoreCacey placed as high as 4th this year even though she's only been training for less than two years at Windsor.
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We are really excited about the upcoming show season.
May 14-17 the Oregon High School Equestrian Team State Finals are being held at the Jackson County Fair and Expo Center in Central Point, Oregon. Liz, who won the district gold medial in dressage will be representing Redmond High School in dressage on Waimea, a 17h Thoroughbred owned by WEC.
Taylor, who won the silver with the Team Penning, will be representing Bend High School in Team Penning.
May 17th is the first Oregon Dressage Society show and we have many students showing.
Melissa will be riding Intro A & B with her Dutch Warmblood mare Tamara.
Casey will be riding Training 3 & 4 with T-Bone a 16h Thoroughbred gelding owned by WEC.
Jaclyn will be riding First Level 1 & 2 with Uranus a Dutch Warmblood gelding who is for sale, owned by Joe Snyder.
We are hoping that the June show will add several other students to the list. Misty in Training Level 3 & 4; Tiffany and Taylor in Novice A & B, and Liz in Training Level test 4. If all goes well, all of these students will show for the entire season. We wish them all good luck and just hope for good rides, because as always the most important thing is to HAVE FUN and enjoy your horse!
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I have used poultices for various reasons since returning from England in 1973. My most amazing result came from a homemade bran + Epsom salt poultice used on a 20+ year old school mare. She had been lame off and on for weeks. The vet had been out three times and had examined and paved our parts of the sole of the foot, finding nothing. The owner did not want x-rays and was leaving on vacation so she told me to go ahead and try my creation. I applied the bran + Epsom salt poultice and left it on for 24 hours. I applied a second one and after another 24 horse when I was rinsing off the hoof, a student helping me said “what is that shiny thing”, I reached down and looked closer to find a nail head. I gently removed it and found it was a ¾” nail that had lodged in the mare’s foot. The nail had worked itself down in the side of the frog near the back of the foot. The black liquid gushed from the foot. We were all amazed that the nail missed the bone structures in the foot and pastern. After one week of packing the hole with peroxide soaked cotton and four treatments with Venice Turpentine (on the sole, not the frog), the mare was sound. She never had further problems with the foot and continued to be a favorite lesson horse.Read More
Shortly after moving to Redmond, Oregon Dr. Gaylin Snair (then Nodman) asked me if I had room for three horses she had seen out in Brothers that needed immediate medical attention. Two were mares with foals; one foal needing a hernia repair surgery, the other was in a soft cast for a displaced patella.
Then there was “Princess” a skin and bones weanling with a large hideous infected wound on the right hind cannon areas and one on the left front forearm. She was so wracked with infections she could barely stand. For four months she had been locked in a six horse trailer with food and water being put in and not treatment done on the wounds. When Gaylin threw the doors open on the trailer the little filly was crouched down and there was so much manure, she could no longer stand up.
When she came to me Gaylin said, “I don’t know if we can save this one”. I said “I’ll do my best”. With love and careful, slow handling we were able to doctor her wounds and mend her tortured soul. We rescued her for $100.00. My niece worked with the filly daily and now, 10 years later Lady Braveheart, is very easy to handle, loving and no longer afraid of the unknown. She knows that she will never be hurt again. She is a gentle mare that holds a special place in all of our lives.
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I have used electrolytes in my horses feed since 1973 in Hawaii. They all got ¼ the recommended dose daily in their AM feed. At shows vets commented that my horses checked out better than many others.
Since moving to Central Oregon, I feel they are even more important because of the dry climate and varying temperatures. The weather here can take some really crazy twists and many horses don’t regulate their water intake well. I still give the ¼ dose in the AM and if it gets really hot or really cold, or the temperatures are bouncing around a lot, I add ½ the recommended dose in the AM and ½ in the PM until the weather settles. We have far less stress colic than most and our horses handle the cold and hot extremes well.
There is reference to electrolytes in the May 2009 issue of Dressage Today, in the Ask the Experts section “Training in the Heat”.
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Learn dressage or hunt seat and take them as far as you want to go. Learn to ride well just for fun or take your skill to the show level, we can take you there at your own pace and without the stress other programs have ...
Read MoreWe'll start your animal with good fundamentals and eliminate bad habits or work with a challenging horse to eliminate bad habits or traits.
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