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I'm not really sure where this thread turned into a pro R+/anti R+ thing... I think those of saying we are uncomfortable with SY (and...

Agreed. SBloom's posts are always well thought out and come from a place of good intention and thoughtfulness. Not so some others...

This. Why the beef? Seems entirely unnecessary, patronising, arrogant and rude. For no obvious reason 🤷‍♀️ If someone has an issue with...

Really? If I've had a stroke and started writing in French could someone let me know? 😁

I suspect not (yet, possibly ever). Because it's not a televised sport it doesn't have that side of the financing so they won't really...

I agree to a certain extent but I think she looks more braced, it looks 'more' everything - I am sure she is struggling in some ways too...

I've had comments at intro for tension and relaxation ffs. And yeah it was a problem and no further progress was made until I sorted it...

Somebody was putting the money on - no idea who backed him down, not me/them or owner. He was 16's in the morning and went off at 4-1!

And a good news story from racing this week - my niece trained a winner at Leopardstown!

Among the many points this misses, two stand out for me. First, that you don't need to be GP training to be able to see an unhappy...

I have and no way could I have even dreamt of riding a high level dressage test. But it hanging off their teeth is the only way to do it...

I don't know about dressage at a high level. I don't understand what it takes to get there. I do, however, know what a stressed...

I feel this comment summarises a lot of issues with modern dressage and horse sport…

That sums up everything that is wrong- that we have allowed dressage judges to be so ill educated that they genuinely think that is how...