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On a different point, it’s not uncommon for competitors going SJ or XC to raise their hands and retire if it’s not going well. Perhaps...

? I was referring to the likelihood of the FEI demanding proof that spur damage looked a certain way on thermal scanning, and the...

If they refuse too strongly, they are usually withdrawn and if they continue to refuse they can be banned from racing where they are...

If you're checking mouths then polo... I exercised polo horses and the state of some coming back from a weekend competing made me cry...

Racing gets a lot of both deserved and undeserved bad press. It's certainly got a lot more power in regard to whip use (and no spurs)...

And not only allowing all the metal work but removing the automatic blood disqualification rule as well 🙄 people actually voted in...

They seem to have enough trouble checking the nosebands can’t imagine they would do much more. Seems odd that dressage horses must have...

Think that's a lot of the problem. It seems that many top riders don't care about the partnership, just the wins. Otherwise why would...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168159124002442 Has been done in other countries 🙂

I have ridden several Van Olst horses and they are an acquired taste. In simple terms they were the hottest temperamented horses I’ve...

Absolutely.When they started leaving competition horses unclipped around their girth area, I was suspicious of it being done for...

How super embarassing would that be Certainly put those blindly supporting the theory that us peasants do not know what we are talking...

T Tack checks have ostensibly improved, that's true, but I'm not sure most of the riders are happy about that and you will still read...

If they wanted to do better, they already would be.

Yes absolutely. Spurs are not knives. How long do you have to bludgeon away to weaken the skin so much it will bleed?