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Me too. I've found a better way. £1500 for a brand new saddle and all accessories and a bit of my time to custom cut some rider shims...

Horses are ill prepared, skeletally, to carry a rider. We owe it to them to load each individual rider onto each individual horse, in...

Yeah, it might have been much more subtle, but NUB was using every trick in the book to keep him under control. The origins of modern...

And it makes a fair bit of the industry worthless as GP dressage is the paradigm. I remember, about 20 years ago, Hilary Vernon used...

Among the many points this misses, two stand out for me. First, that you don't need to be GP training to be able to see an unhappy...

I feel this comment summarises a lot of issues with modern dressage and horse sport…

Two things can be true at the same time, that CDJ is a particular issue, she gets under our skin because she promoted herself as kinder...

Nah, if you can't ride the big powerful horse without causing clear pain and conflict behaviours then you cannot ride the horse.

I can't even watch that debacle. It is hideous and at what point did it become acceptable? Makes me so very sad for the poor horses who...

It is so sad to see Glamourdale these days. I became aware of his when he was a 5yo I think, maybe before then, in any case it was at a...

Ok here's an idea. Inspired by snow-boarding where they review video to see things like the grab, whether a hand touches the snow on...

I agree and loathe a trial by social media but CDJ could have chosen to change, to ride and train differently. She will have been so...

100% correct, I totally agree. The current owners of CDJ’s rides should be named and held accountable for supporting someone who is...

Lottie Fry was also filmed. The horse is so tense I can't even decipher what half the movements are supposed to be.

So nothing should be said, because nobody has stopped it? Next you'll be blaming the horse for not decking her if it wasn't happy! 😏...