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Ingrid Klimke😢😢. A rider meant to be one of the good ones. Are there any truly ‘good ones’. My team and I were discussing using 2...

What on earth has the poor horse done to deserve that? Poor lad needs a break, not terrorising 😂😂

He passed the vetting, so he is coming home :-)

Agree her hands aren't heavy, but she is using long spurs. They're a bit easier to spot later on in the video. That horse looks a long...

Wasn’t Vayron a Heigstrand trained horse? That might explain why the horse is so tense, I’ve always liked the way Ingrid rides, shame...

I was going to say this too, if you're at the point where the tongue is blue there is no way on this good green earth that there aren't...

How does that argument work when the colour of the tongue may not be 'accurately' rendered but it still clearly differs from the mucosa...

My horse gets rubs behind one elbow. It's not the girth itself that is rubbing, it's the wrinkles in her skin. I've found the string...

Failing to provide raw images is a problem but most of us who are trying to make a judgement with the evidence available to us, and are...

Taking it wider than tongues, I think there’s certainly a shift somewhere along the lines when whatever is happening - dressage...

This has been the trouble all along, if any of us rode like the top riders do we would end up being banned again if we didn’t improve...

A friend I believe unconditionally has. The person involved is taking lessons from a local "dressage producer" who has very hard hands...

Yup. I'm sure that anyone officiating at an event for the clueless, amateur, never-competed-at-high-level bods out there would have...

I thought this! Blue is wrong. I'm yet to see a blue tongue at amateur levels / riding club / fun rides and I'm pretty sure the...

That's one of the things that gets me cross! Does it matter if it's painful or not? Tongues should not be blue in a healthy horse...