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Ingrid Klimke😢😢. A rider meant to be one of the good ones. Are there any truly ‘good ones’. My team and I were discussing using 2...

That's what so extraordinary about this clip - she doesn't have a death grip but the horse has clearly had enough and no one is getting...

I read something on a forum/board somewhere that was extremely off-putting about Reiner Klimke I think at the LA Olympics specifically...

It's been said often enough that if horses vocalised like dogs none of this stuff would be happening to them.

I was going to say this too, if you're at the point where the tongue is blue there is no way on this good green earth that there aren't...

How does that argument work when the colour of the tongue may not be 'accurately' rendered but it still clearly differs from the mucosa...

We may disagree on some other things, but I couldn't agree more with you on this.

I would try and work out if it's forward to back pressure/wrinkling, or a lack of space between elbow and ribcage. If the latter then...

A friend I believe unconditionally has. The person involved is taking lessons from a local "dressage producer" who has very hard hands...

I thought this! Blue is wrong. I'm yet to see a blue tongue at amateur levels / riding club / fun rides and I'm pretty sure the...

That's one of the things that gets me cross! Does it matter if it's painful or not? Tongues should not be blue in a healthy horse...

If they refuse too strongly, they are usually withdrawn and if they continue to refuse they can be banned from racing where they are...

Ban it and be done !

Yep, time limit for the jockey alone to ride the horse into the stalls, and obviously no (excessive I guess, if we have to) use of the...

Change the rules so horses can't be dragged into the starting stalls?