2024 NE Cowboy Dressage
Practice Plans
This year, we are coming into practices with a plan in mind. Please feel free to join us! We encourage you to also take time to ride with solo or with friends around the grassy facility, and work on any skills you want that are outside this plan.
BYOL: Some people have been enjoying lunch on the grounds after practice.
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Also, remember to have your Salt Creek Wranglers membership up-to-date for insurance purposes while riding at the Wranglers arena. Membership to Nebraska Cowboy Dressage is required.
Saturday, July 6, 10:00 AM - 12 noon - Makeup Date
Saturday, June 8, 10:00 AM - 12 noon - Rain CANCELLED
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10 AM: Practice Begins -- Mentors available!
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Geometry
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Turn on Haunches and Forehand
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11:30 AM: Ride-A-Test
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Choose a test. Continue developing your skill practicing calling for someone else.​​
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Saturday, July 13, 10:00 AM - 12 noon
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10 AM: Practice Begins -- Mentors available!
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Review Skills
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Lateral Work
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Test scoring examples
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11:30 AM: Ride-A-Test
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Practice a test.
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Practicing calling for someone else.​​
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Saturday, July 27, 10:00 AM - 12 noon
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10 AM: Practice Begins -- Mentors available!
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Work on solidifying/polishing skills for RoundUp​
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11:00 AM: Ride-A-Test
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Practice a test.
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Practicing calling for someone else.​​
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11:30 AM: Stretching for horse & rider​
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Share an exercise or technique if you have one!​
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Monday, May 27, 10:00 AM - 12 noon - COMPLETED
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10 AM: Practice Begins -- Mentors available!
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Bend and Straightness
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Freestyle tests and requirements
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11:30 AM: Ride-A-Test
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Choose a test -- maybe Freestyle?. Develop your skill practicing calling for someone else.​
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12 noon: BRING YOUR LUNCH for a Memorial Day picnic
Saturday, April 13 - COMPLETED
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1PM: Practice Begins
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“Mentee Level” - Basics of the court, pick a test or two to work on for the year; check for legal tack; Gaits & transitions; Stop & Back
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“Mentor Level” - Gaits & transitions, Bend & Straightness; help out with Mentee level attendees
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2PM: Ride-A-Test
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Your first shot this year at riding a chosen test, plus a chance to practice calling for someone else
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