Merry-Go-Round Gala & Auction
Saturday, September 12 at 6:30 pm
HITS-on-the-Hudson Show Grounds in Saugerties, NY
The Hors’n Around Saugerties Art Exhibit and Celebration is coming to a close. It’s been a wonderful experience for the residents, community and visitors to the Hudson Valley and now it’s time for the real fun to begin! – FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY –
All 46 Carousel Horses will be offered for auction during a special celebration to raise money for local food banks.
The Merry-Go-Round Gala & Auction will be held in the HITS-on-the-Hudson VIP pavilion on Saturday, September 12 at 6:30 p.m. Guests will be treated to an evening of food, art and fun as members from the Saugerties Area Chamber of Commerce and its volunteers auction off over 40 different carousel horses that have adorned the streets of Saugerties for the past several months in an effort to raise money for local food pantries. Each fiberglass horse measures either 28 or 34 inches in height and has been lovingly decorated by local artists in themes reflecting the Hudson-Fulton- Champlain Quadricentennial and sponsored by local businesses throughout Saugerties. Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=7939
Before you can pick the perfect music for your horse, you need to understand the difference between rhythm and tempo.
Many people use the words rhythm and tempo interchangeably, but they don’t mean the same thing. This month, I’ll go over the meaning of each–both in musical terminology and in riding terminology.
Rhythm – When riding, regularity of the rhythm refers to the even spacing between each step in a stride of walk, trot, or canter. In music, rhythm is made up of sounds and silences. These sounds and silences are put together to form patterns of sound which are repeated to create rhythm.
Look at the two descriptions of rhythm and put them together. Think of the sounds and silences of the musical terminology and the even spacing between each step of your horse’s gaits as the same thing. When the horse’s foot is down it is a sound. When your horse’s foot is up, it is silent. This is how we can relate the rhythm of music to the rhythm of your horse’s gaits.
Tempo –Tempo is the speed of the music or the speed of your horse. Depending on how fast you want to go, you can adjust the rate of repetition of the rhythm.
Tempo in music can be fast, slow, or in-between. Music sounds and feels different depending on how fast it’s played. The same piece of music will have a different effect or mood depending on whether it’s played fast or slow.
Hopefully, this description clarifies the difference between rhythm and tempo as it applies to music and to your horse.
Next month, we’ll talk about choosing the particular kind of music that will accentuate your horse’s strengths. Stay tuned for a whole lot of fun!
Pick music that matches your horses BPM within 4-6 BPM range.
(For example if your horse has a canter of 104 BPM, choose music that is between 100 BPM and 108 BPM)
Choose music that has a very clear down beat. (The down beat is the beat that you would tap your toe to.)
If you CAN’T tap you toe to the music or clap your hands easily to the beat of the music… it’s not great riding music!!
Choose music that will help you achieve your horse’s ideal tempo. For example: if your horse is a bit on the lazy side, choose an upbeat and energetic piece of music that will help YOU continue to strive for more energy. If your horse is more on hot or nervous side, choose music that will feel calmer, steadier and will help you with rhythm and relaxation.
You’d probably agree that having a balanced, centered position plays a huge role in being an effective rider. And you’d probably also agree that it seems like you’ve been picking away at your faults for years but still struggle to find an independent seat and an elegant position.
How do we know that? We know because we’ve been in the same boat and know how frustrating it can be to ride around for years with the same old position problems and crooked bodies.
So we put our heads together and developed our unique program based on two very powerful sports psychology techniques.
Those two techniques are:
Programming the subconscious mind
Anchoring
Programming The Subconscious Mind
First, you should know that one of the biggest mistakes you can make is to try to improve your position with iron-jawed determination. The reason iron-jawed determination doesn’t work is that you can only make short-term, temporary changes to your skills when you direct your effort and energy to your conscious mind through will power.
However, when you direct your efforts to your subconscious mind, the changes are permanent.
Next,you need to know a couple of things about the subconscious mind. It operates, in part, as a goal striving mechanism. It’s kind of like the genie in the bottle. It’s just waiting for your instructions. It hears and believes everything you say and visualize, sees it as the goal, and like a guided missile zeroes in on that goal.
Finally,the exciting thing about programming your subconscious mind is that it’s a lot easier to do than using will power. All you have to know is two things:
Vivid visualization
Self-talk
Program Your Position uses both visualization and self-talk to change the “software” in your mental computer.
You get very vivid images as well as illustrations of those images to adjust every part of your body. You’ll start at your seat—your core—and from there, you’ll work down to your toes, up to your head, and right through your fingertips.
Anchoring
Once you have the vivid images in your mind’s eye, you’re given specific “buzzwords” that anchor those images in your subconscious mind.
The buzzwords act as a shorthand cue to trigger position corrections. You don’t have to actively “do” anything. Your subconscious mind causes your muscles to fire in the right way so that you automatically “self-correct”.
For example, let’s say you tend to collapse the left side of your waist. Visualize that you have a toothpick on each side of your body. Each toothpick rests between your last rib and your waist. If you collapse on the left side, you’ll get jabbed by the toothpick on the left, and the toothpick on the right will end up on the ground.
You want to stretch up through your left side so your toothpicks stay in place without sticking you. Plus, when you stretch up, you create the right muscle memory. Once you’re sitting correctly, you’ll anchor that feeling with the buzzword “toothpicks”.
The entire Programming Your Position process is fun and effective. And the best part is, once you know the details of how the system works, you can use your own images and buzzwords in the same way to get amazing results without a lot of blood, sweat, and tears!
There are words that should be written about the courage of Cloud the wild mustang who performed like no other stallion in trying to save his band, but no time to write them. Someone should share how he defied the helicopter blades and tried to run his herd back up the mountain but there is no time to speak. A voice should be raised in respect for the stallion who would not enter the end of the trap and actually turned to face the pursuing helicopter, something never seen before, but the few who saw are themselves facing their own fears and dread. Someone of authority should stop the rouge BLM from committing such atrocities, but they must be to busy to notice or care. So all we have to offer, this day, are a brief series of pictures that show Cloud, the Wild Stallion of the Rockies, doing all of the above and more. Our hearts beat louder for his intelligence and bravery. rtfitch.wordpress.com, Straight from the Horse’s Heart, Sep 2009
There are words that should be written about the courage of Cloud the wild mustang who performed like no other stallion in trying to save his band, but no time to write them. Someone should share how he defied the helicopter blades and tried to run his herd back up the mountain but there is no time to speak. A voice should be raised in respect for the stallion who would not enter the end of the trap and actually turned to face the pursuing helicopter, something never seen before, but the few who saw are themselves facing their own fears and dread. Someone of authority should stop the rouge BLM from committing such atrocities, but they must be too busy to notice or care. So all we have to offer, this day, are a brief series of pictures that show Cloud, the Wild Stallion of the Rockies, doing all of the above and more. Our hearts beat louder for his intelligence and bravery.
SAUGERTIES, NY (September 7, 2009) — Lacy Morrone-Cramer rode Ulysses Van De Krekebeke to the fastest double-clear effort in Sunday’s $50,000 HITS Grand Prix to conclude the HITS-on-the-Hudson VIII horse show at HITS-on-the-Hudson in Saugerties, New York.
Course Designer Jerry Dougherty trimmed a field of 28 horse-and-rider pairs to eight that moved into the jump-off round. In the end, it would be Morrone-Cramer and Ulysses Van De Krekebeke grabbing $15,000 in first-place prize money.
Morrone-Cramer and Ulysses Van De Krekebeke had been knocking on the door all season at HITS Saugerties as they were second in the $50,000 HITS Grand Prix during HITS-on-the-Hudson I and won a ribbon in the $125,000 Strongid C2X Grand Prix during HITS-on-the-Hudson VI. On Sunday, they made the dash for the cash in 40.407 seconds to take the pair to the victory gallop in the final Grand Prix of the season at HITS-on-the-Hudson. Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=7937
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