Recent content by milliepops

It would be helpful if every dressage thread did not quickly turn into a generalised rant about how godawful the entire discipline is and how all dressage riders are horse abusers and all the judges are blind. Can't speak for others but it's absolutely destroyed the forum for me, if you try to...

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I do appreciate the responsiveness of those Western horses. They are fabulous... horses are amazing. Guessing the tack rules are quite relaxed ?

Yes there's a few riders that have shared stuff like that, but as some kind of selection criteria... its been a long week but even so.

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Sorry. What?? When would you like to see our team riders indulge the whim of a random on the Internet by riding without a bridle when they are prepping for a championship. These people have trainers, team responsibilities, sponsors and so on to report to. They should be accountable to them, to...

I thought of this further while riding. To straighten a horse is not often a case of asking the opposite of what it offers. Riding a horse that hollows left, in a hollow right position will not necessarily produce an opposite and straightening effect. Often the crookednesd stems from a less...

But that's just an exaggeration of straightening work isn't it? I would approach it in this way, because to push the horse that is naturally crooked left, to exaggerated crooked right, might be too much for its body to manage without adopting compensatory movement patterns and so on. The goal is...

Agree, Gareth is a superb rider and his tests always look so harmonious.

Some of us might want to remain incognito, leave that at home this year ??

Although we used the same word it wasn't just your post I had in mind. Sorry if it came across like that.

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When they do audience scoring its often pretty much in line with the judges ?

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They've already done two straight tests to get to the music class though. It's not like there is no qualification process to get into the freestyle, only the top ones from the previous days of GP and GPS get to ride to their stirring music. So I don't think it's fair to say the entire show is...