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In the meantime, I'm all for embarrassing riders at a personal level. CplC are mostly very keen to stress that it's the system, which is...

I had a clinic with a judge early last year who said amongst their peers (list 3/4 in her case) there's a lot of eye rolling & head...

I think the responsibility lies with the judges and the national federations / FEI because they pick the winners. And people are...

I'm sure there's some complex stuff going on with the judging. I bet someone else can describe it better than me, but I'll have a go...

If I rode at Prelim level with that amount of tension, broken gaits and irregularity, I would be lucky if I wasn't told to leave the...

The riders body position is stopping the horse in the piaffe, so she uses the spurs The horse completely confused re it's brain to...

It's such a complex and incestuous system. At the bottom, most people expect the judges to know more than them and although they may...

Why not blame everyone? No one makes the breeders breed hot hypermobile horses. No one makes anyone ride them. These people are all...

I thought that, what the hell is it

Wtf was that?! And how on earth did it score 79%. Most of it wasn’t in a recognisable pace. And just look at the constant ‘chattering’...

I've still not forgiven Mr P for trying to fob Wotto off on a small child 😒 I also want to know what can be cuter and more loveable to...

I'm reminded of 'you're very good at what you do, it's just that what you do is not worth doing' or something I think from the Big Bang...

What kind of person is it, after all, who isn't won over by a *kitten* or two?!

What good news 😁

Mr P last night after a few glasses of wine and a Wotto cuddle I really really didn’t want this cat, I was really pissed off at you...