FFRREEEE ­ HHoorrssee­­RReevviieeww Vol. 22 • No. 2 The Mid-South Equine Newsmagazine Since 1992 OCTOBER 2011 Jordon Hardiman from Springville, AL on Nymphadora, owned by John Sturm. Jordon won the Pleasure Youth 13-17 class. See article p. 23. Paso Fino Grand Nationals September 25-October 1 •Agricenter Show Place Arena 2. October, 2011 • Mid-South Horse Review www.midsouthhorsereview.com Fall Farm Exercise of the Month tep 2: Engaging your lower buttock HHoorrssee RReevviieeww & Fun Pelvic Lift Sand upper hamstring muscles, Equus Charta, LLC begin to peel your tailbone off the ground. Copyright 2011 Festivities by Janice Dulak, Master Romana’s Pi - As you do this, use your stomach muscles lates Instructor/Trainer, author of Pilates to keep your waistline on the ground. for the Dressage Rider (Photo 2 below) 6220 Greenlee #7 www.pilatesfordressage.com P.O. Box 594 • Arlington, TN The Pelvic lift is a variation on a 38002-0594 Pilates Reformer exercise. 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October, 2011 • Mid-South Horse Review www.midsouthhorsereview. com In a Man’ure of Speaking Book Review or chaps, and close-toed shoes, preferably Chosen by a Horse Hayercize boots. As of this printing, these specialized by Leigh Ballard sweet-spirited and af - clothes with the Hayercize logo are not yet by Tommy Brannon fectionate horse de - available. Susan Richards’ spite all her The Centers for Disease Control and For those of us who would not qualify memoir, Chosen by a tribulations. Prevention, National Institute of Health for a weight lifting contest, the proper Horse : How a broken Susan begins the Nutritional Center for Health Statistics, Hayercize routine is listed below: horse fixed a broken long road of rehabili - and World Health Organization have all “Bend the knees and lift with ease:” heart , is about the tating the mare, reported that obesity is a national health avoid bending the back to pick up bales off restorative gifts named Lay Me problem of epidemic proportions. Many the ground. This will avoid back injuries, gleaned from taking Down, and in that Americans spend thousands of dollars but keep the chiropractor’s number handy. care of an animal — process, she finds a each year on health club memberships, Your back should be fine after a Hayercize the importance of generosity of spirit in spas, and exercise classes trying to lose workout, but that does not mean you can’t constancy, the beauty the mare which of - weight and keep fit. Fortunately we horse use it as an excuse to request a back rub of quiet, steadfast fers her psychologi - enthusiasts do not have to search and pay from your spouse. love, the way loving a cal healing and for such classes, we have Hayercize ! Use your thigh and bent knee to help lift good (and sometimes renewal. Susan is in Each of our 1,000 - 1,300 lb. animals and tote the bale (see photo). Your leg has bad!) animal can keep mid-life, divorced, has to eat 18 hours a day and requires 30 a lot more strength than your arms. Added you going. has suffered from al - pounds of forage each day. That means grunting at this point will let others know The memoir opens coholism and many that in the non-growing season, and when that you are working hard; it will put a real with a sudden and un - emotional wounds, they are not out to pasture, we need to feed guilt trip on them so they work harder. planned rescue of a but through her work horses half a bale of hay a day. Baling, Passing off bales to someone else re - horse seized by the with the mare, she lifting, transporting, stacking, and feeding quires hand to eye coordination and a lot local chapter of the finds an inner this hay can give you the kind of workout of yelling, things like “coming at you,” be - SPCA. Susan picks a strength and a freedom from the isolation that non-horse people pay membership tween grunts. Use the previously men - horse to take home from an emergency she has experienced throughout her life. A fees and hire a personal trainer to get. tioned thigh and knee method to get the holding facility, but with the confusion and bond that she has never experienced be - bale lifted, then pick it up unsettling nature of the rescue, the horse fore develops between her and the sweet, overhead and pass it on. will not load in the trailer. In haste, Susan ailing horse. Do not throw bales at the takes a horse that loads willingly, that While the story in many ways deals next person unless they are “chooses” her. with hard realities, it is ultimately an up - facing you. Just as in foot - The neglected, emaciated broodmare lifting story. There is plenty of humor in ball, there is a 20 yard with a foal at her side comes from a Stan - the spot-on descriptions of herd behavior, penalty for clipping and this dardbred racing operation that has fallen jealousies, and attachments of Susan’s action could become recipro - on hard times. The owner of the barn has other horses: among themselves, the new - cal. simply ceased to feed his herd, and the sit - comer mare, and their human. The overhead throw is the uation was discovered barely in time. The Many equestrians already know that re - most strenuous part of the sketchy history Susan has of the mare is lationships with horses can provide relief Hayercize program. This is that she has done her time on the track, en - from stress and daily grind, but this is a the technique that teenage dured grueling work, neglect, and numer - story on a larger, spiritual scale about how boys get to show off the ous health issues. The foal at her side is a horses can provide an emotional focus and most. Grunting is not re - wild untouched thing, a real problem. Sur - a healing avenue away from many trou - The techniques of Hayercize are very quired here, but it helps.