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      <image:title>Blog - How To Present a Horse for a Western Dressage Competition - REMINDER: Western Style Equipment</image:title>
      <image:caption>That means you should not use a plain black/brown leather English bridle and reins. Or a PVC style bridle.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - How To Present a Horse for a Western Dressage Competition - ~ Beth Noble ~ Western Dressage competitor from Western Australia always has her horse clean, shiny and polished when she competes.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - How To Present a Horse for a Western Dressage Competition - My favourite colour combination to pair with my golden buckskin gelding at a Western Dressage competition is hot pink, purple and black.</image:title>
      <image:caption>~ Vivian Wearing ~ Western Dressage Clinician and High Level WD Competitor in Australia Pictured competing in the 2022 WDA-AUS Western Dressage National Show</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>White polo leg wraps are acceptable and look very classy.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - How To Present a Horse for a Western Dressage Competition - Did you know?</image:title>
      <image:caption>A one-ear or a two-ear western headstall is meant to be used with a curb/shank bit. Snaffle bits should be used with a western headstall that has a browband.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - What to wear at a Western Dressage Competition. - “For local level shows my favourite ‘go to’ is a solid colour arena shirt with a kerchief that matches the saddle pad. My favourite colours to wear on a chestnut are shades of blue or green and I always wear matching hat and chaps that pick up either the brown or black in the pad or my horse’s coat colour. “</image:title>
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