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Wonder what she could say really, apart from asking the reporter how many GP horses he had produced :rolleyes: It seemed a very...

https://web.archive.org/web/20260301203323/https://www.thetimes.com/sport/article/charlotte-dujardin-special-report-dressage-c837pxwxt?ga...

It's not lack of knowledge. It's not giving a sh....

So, apologies for another lengthy fb video but this just looks like breaking a horse down, not building it up 😕 Btw: I kept wondering...

It's such a complex and incestuous system. At the bottom, most people expect the judges to know more than them and although they may...

I had a clinic with a judge early last year who said amongst their peers (list 3/4 in her case) there's a lot of eye rolling & head...

Why not blame everyone? No one makes the breeders breed hot hypermobile horses. No one makes anyone ride them. These people are all...

It's been nearly exactly a month so in case anyone sees this late or was curious about the current goings-on of my loaning saga 😆 I'm...

Oh come on. Nobody here has seen the OP ride and they sound reasonably novice. Are we seriously suggesting that they change a bit of...

I was actually thinking of films, or books, or dance when I wrote the post. No I won't get up and show you how to do a jive, but I can...

I do find it weird that people expect horses (that from the sounds of it have reached some extremes of behaviour) to be "fixed" in one...

I just find this so fundamentally unfair to the horse. The "must be fixed now or horse is PTS" is not just a thing that will happen...

I used to argue the case that a short period of time experiencing pressure to lead to a situation where the horse could have feet...

Might work. But only if they want to penalise stressed and tense horses. Which they could do now and don't. So they don't want to, or...

Though equally they might be more inclined to blame the horse than their yard management and lack of turnout. .