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Something occurred to me in regard to 'rehab' of these riders that are abusing their horses with so much compression and chair...

You see an exaggerated version of exactly this too in some Arab endurance racing. The extreme leaning back onto the horses loin at...

Those horses winning are bloody horrid to ride. Huge bouncy paces. The very best way to deal with it is to go back into a chair seat...

I'm guessing he also had an innate ability to 'deal with' the pressure she put on him - another thing lots of horses don't have, so they...

I've had comments at intro for tension and relaxation ffs. And yeah it was a problem and no further progress was made until I sorted it...

So true! At prelim judges reward relaxed and rhythmical and deduct for tense and irregular.

The biggest advantage she had with him was he loved to perform. It is a very different feeling (at any level!) being on a horse which is...

Do viewing numbers not count for anything in dressage, I wonder? So many of us don’t watch it anymore and we are not alone. Does...

I have seen her in many press posts today. Many people calling it a "Witch Hunt". I have to agree with all who have commented before...

If the horses had to look relaxed and swishing tails penalised there wouldn’t be one left! This has all been said before. Dressage was...

It would be interesting to chart the last 40 years of dressage at GP to see if you could track the scores, trainers, breeding etc. To...

This this this this this. It is literally worthless.

Daughter and I always enjoyed Badminton dressage and the other big events more than pure dressage but I'm even unsure about eventing...

I agree. Also, it was apparently he who gave her the name of Edwina Scissorhands wasn't it :( . I think it's more likely that he...

I agree they are fit, powerful horses but so are top level event horses and their riders don’t hang on the reins in the same way.