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They're so snatchy behind. Guess it's the 'ooops, momentary lack of judgement' training method. No grace, no elegance, no balance. No...

Her hands are horrible. Their is no give, no softness, fingers constantly closed tightly on the reins in an absolute death grip.

It’s not a nice picture, it’s all expression from tension and punishing the horse with a harsh hand and jabbing spur with no obvious...

This is why I keep banging on about training, that what most people consider genuinely abusive is in the same playbook as the normal...

It looks uncomfortable and lame at certain points, she even looks round at one point as if trying to find a reason why it feels like it...

The poor horse looks like a cartoon character. Shameful animal abuse. How is this type of riding and training allowed to continue? :mad:

There is nothing soft or harmonious in that clip.

I'm so out of touch with dressage...I totally stopped engaging after the initial CDJ abuse but this just looks awful - wobbly, overbent...

Looks like a marionette. I dont understand how anyone can enjoy looking at that.

Also fed up with the weather, I would really like the fields to have chance to dry off a bit so I can chuck the horses back out full...

Some of you may recall I posted a thread in December asking if it was too soon to say goodbye to my mare, Dolly. She unfortunately had a...

From another thread... I think the photos are telling... In the name of entertainment. There are many, many more photos floating...

Are people just so desperate for dressage/equine sport to continue to the point of denying what they've seen with their own eyes? We've...

MT got a far greater punishment, and I guess in his case at least it was crystal clear to the horse what was wanted of it. With CDJ that...

Not watched racing for ages, sat . It came on TV, sat there watched for 10 mins, general medrano fell early in the race, commentator...