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I know - what on earth happened? It wasn't CJD by herself. I do think that if judges had consistently rewarded harmonious riding and...

Glad it’s not just me that thinks top level dressage just looks like circus tricks. I’ve been saying that for years. I can’t bear to...

At least you have caught it now...It's mad how than go from galloping arounf to crippled in 24hours :( Hopefully a bt of box rest and...

Update - so today I went out and he was a lot worse. Pottery in front and reluctant to walk other than slowly and struggling to turn. I...

And there are way fewer actual blue flowers than white, yellow, red etc so it doesn't make a lot of evolutionary sense for them...

Can only imagine what his "training" is like given who Daddy is 😝

With Annabella Pidgley who is dating the Helgestrand son, so given she's based at their yard I'm assuming he's there too

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

^^^^^^ this.

That video was horrible I couldn't watch all of it. That poor horse looked as if he was just tolerating the abuse so it would be over...

Two things can be true at the same time, that CDJ is a particular issue, she gets under our skin because she promoted herself as kinder...

Nah, if you can't ride the big powerful horse without causing clear pain and conflict behaviours then you cannot ride the horse.

I can't even watch that debacle. It is hideous and at what point did it become acceptable? Makes me so very sad for the poor horses who...

I think that is a very interesting idea. I sometimes think it should be what the naked eye sees and there is too much over analysing of...

I do like this as an idea. But tbh there is also the issue of judges giving high marks to movements that are not only tense and...