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Marchador Clinic with Laura Patterson
Day 2 and Day 3 of the SW Clinic focused on riding and learning to feel the different gaits and speeds of the Marchador. SW offered:
- Artemis do Summerwind – marcha picada
- Siglioso do Rav – marcha picada
- Seamus da Boa Fe – marcha picada and marcha batida
- Bossa Nova de Miami – marcha de centro
- Gralha M.U.G. – marcha batida
- Koyote Libertas – marcha batida
- Caboclo da Piedade – marcha batida
Learnings from Laura: (see also clinic post from last year)
- Use the land to improve the gait. We left the arena and used a hillside meadow to speed up the footfalls and get more reach when coming down the hill.
- We also used the road to listen for the sound of the gait. Excellent feedback to the rider to hear and adjust the speed, collection or himself to get the perfect sound.
- Focus on proper posture – no leaning! Tuck your seat under you slightly so your hips can move.
- The star exercise used poles in a circle on the ground and a pattern to ask the horse for concentration, bending and stretching.
- How to work on the gait when not under saddle – free movement or running with the horse.
- Lots of obstacles and patterns on many different horses raised everyone’s confidence level.
Ned’s Lead Line Mgmt Clinic – July 2014
Lead Line Management – it sounds so simple, doesn’t it? We learned from Ned – everyone needs this course! Basics are the building blocks of horsemanship and what we learned in class also translates into riding exercises as well. Find out more about Ned Leigh on his website: http://www.nedleighequinefocus.com
Our learnings from Ned during the clinic:
- The backup: This is an important command! It primarily establishes our boundary between us and the horse. This boundary must be maintained and consistent if the horse is ever to truly understand. There should be at least 4 different commands or ways the horse understands as a request for a backup.
- The horse should never be disciplined if they come into our space! It is the fault of the person if this happens. It is the responsibility of the person to control the horse’s approach to the boundary. We want a relationship with our horse and we’d like them to want to be close to us and not punish them for this.
- The forward command is a 3 step process. Always use the least amount of pressure or request when asking the horse and then move to the second and third step if needed.
- Allow the horse the time to think and make decisions.
- ALWAYS BE A TEACHER! It is easy to find ourselves in the mindset to make the horse do what we want and the horse will always suffer for that! To be a teacher we must try to see the lesson from the horse’s point of view.
- Timing is everything!
Photos from the class! All Marchador horses in the photos! Most photos credit to Brasilian instructor for Day 2 and Day 3
Video from the Clinic! Courtesy of Adrienne C. Scheck
Saddle & Stirrups – Gaia’s Diary, continued
You can read the article by clicking on each page to view larger.
You can also view other Saddle and Stirrups issues where the Marchador is featured!
- October 2012 – Introduction to the MM Breed
- November 2012 – Visit to Brazil and the ABCCMM National Show
- December 2012 – Launching a Legacy – Becoming an MM Breeder
- January 2013, Gaia do Summerwind
- Issue 9 – Frozen all the Way
- Issue 10 – Gaia’s Diary
- Issue 14 – Choosing a Stallion
- Issue 18 – Cavalgadas – the Way of the Marchador
- Issue 25 – The Dead Broke Rider
- Issue 28 – The Gait
- Issue 31 – The Horse You Will Never Forget
- Issue 32 – Brazilian Tradition Follows the Marchador to America
- Issue 33 – Want to Keep Learning?
- Christmas Issue – Introduction to the Marchador Breed
- Issue 35 – Stress-Free Weaning
- Issue 35 – 9 Lives Minus 1
- Issue 36 – Pretty in Pink
- Issue 38 – Act as if you can make a difference – the M Foundation
- Issue 39 – First, do no harm
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SW Future Foal @ Sedona!
With Karen’s purchase of Isabelle do Great Lakes, SW Future Foal gained a new breeder! Welcome to Future Foal @ Sedona, and Karen Livesay and Randy Conilogue who want to invest and contribute to the future of the Mangalarga Marchador breed here in North America!
About Karen:
She’s a native Southern Californian of Costa Rica-Nicaragua Indian descent. Undergrad from UCLA, MBA from Pepperdine’s Graziado School of Business and doctoral study in Systems Theory from Fielding Institute all contributed to her future as an entrepreneur and businesswoman. Karen has had an exciting and intense business career. She ran her own million dollar manufacturing company, directed support services in a Fortune 5 company, and held an adjunct business school faculty position at California Lutheran University.
But she discovered a real passion as an extreme outdoor adventure lover following years of horseback riding, mountain biking, backpacking, river rafting, kayaking, mountain climbing, rappelling, cross-country skiing and lots of hiking. She also became a powered parachute basic flight instructor and a police-trained and certified mounted Arizona Ranger.
For Karen, Four Winds Adventures, a large-event planning company she established in 1996, was a culmination of a lifetime of loves and expertise. Selling the company’s premiere property, the Sedona Marathon, to the Sedona Chamber of Commerce in 2011 has allowed her to become a world traveler, art collector, breeder of Mangalarga Marchador gaited horses, and philanthropist. Married to her husband since 1981, they fostered two older children for 11 years, and she is a cancer survivor.
About Randy:
Randy Conilogue, PhD EE, retired
Randy was born and raised in the central California valley. In school, Randy excelled in science and math and played trumpet in various bands and music assemblies. He attended Bakersfield College concentrating on science and physics classes in anticipation of pre-med education studies. He soon changed his focus to Physics, because he said, “It is more challenging than pre-med” – and little did he know how challenging it would be.
In the summers, Randy worked for his father, an industrial electrical contractor, wiring commercial buildings and facilities, as an apprentice electrician to earn money for college. Randy transferred to the University of California Los Angeles, UCLA, and his educational focus became Electrical Engineering. Entering the UCLA Electrical Engineering School, Randy Completed his BS, MS, and PhD degrees with a primary focus on Semiconductor Physics. Meanwhile, while working on his Masters degree, he hired into Hughes Aircraft as a summer hire, eventually becoming a fellowship employee, and thereafter continued to work for Hughes and its successive companies, Hughes Electronics and Raytheon. Randy worked on airborne radars, missile seekers, GPS, and other defense systems.
While at UCLA, Randy met his future wife (though he did not not know at the time) through friends in the Greek system. They did not see each other for many years after college and later reconnected and married and have been married over 35 years.
In 1997 Randy and Karen decided to move to Sedona AZ, sold their home in Thousand Oaks, CA the day it listed, and Karen went off to Sedona to build their new house. Randy meanwhile continued working for Hughes in California. In 2000, he transferred to Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson, AZ. Meanwhile he and Karen fostered two boys for 11 years. Randy retired from Raytheon in 2011.
After retirement, the commuting from Sedona to Tucson and back stopped, and Randy and Karen started to travel around to world to bucket list places such as London, Paris, Africa, Dubai, Rome, Prague, Budapest, Alaska, New Orleans, Pagosa Springs, Istanbul, Greece, Croatia, Brazil, China, Russia, and many others.
Randy and Karen are starting to slow down the foreign travel and enjoy their horses and pets and retirement lifestyle. Randy decided a new challenge and education was in store, by learning to ride, train, and understand Karen’s horses. His favorite statement on one of his first rides, as the Missouri Foxtrotter horse bolted for home along a cliff, was – “I’m gonna die!!!!!!!!”. He did not die and now is riding Karen’s sweet natured Mangalarga Marchadors and telling Karen how she should train them (not the wisest move to a woman who has had horses since childhood). At first Randy couldn’t even say Mangalarga Marchador, instead referring to them as a Maquiladora Margaritas. Now he is interested in them as wonderful athletic companions with strong, exotic and graceful looks.
In additional to riding and traveling, Randy likes to hike and bike, and volunteers with the local Boy Scouts of America troop in Sedona as an assistant scoutmaster, and the First Robotics Competition in Phoenix Arizona as a robot inspector and Workshop coordinator. He supports the Mangalarga Marchadors breed through Summerwind Marchadors and he and Karen are committed to seeing the legacy of the breed continue in the USA in their own breeding program with Summerwind.
Karen and Randy also own 2 Marchador geldings: Flying Oaks Pegasus and Jorge-Ben de Lazy T.
SW Future Foal specializes in genetics, focusing on unique, outstanding Marchador horses and bloodlines.
SW Future Foal @ Sedona will be breeding Isabelle do Great Lakes this fall to Talisma Kafe, using frozen semen imported from Brazil. With his extraordinary conformation, smooth gait and COLOR, we are expecting greatness! Izzy, affectionately named, has a great marcha too. She is flashy, but sweet, super intelligent and people-oriented. She is a half-sister to Summerwind’s Koyote Libertas and Brasilia do Summerwind who you may know and love already.
Contact us to reserve a Future Foal ” do Summerwind” to be born Fall 2017..
Click here to read more about Isabelle do Great Lakes (IZZY!)
Click on the PDF file to get a flyer with SW Future Foal locations and contact information! Now breeding in AZ (2 locations), CO, NC, and SK!