Adelinde Cornelissen - A Rant!!

i think the study under vet. supervision is on sustainable dressage site, somewhere, i think it could be there they also they said fei decided in 2006 that there was no evidence to support a ban on rollkur.

the report also noted that the study included jumping horses who also had the same poblems, and that interesting rollkur was first used by showjumpers.
 
tristar said:
i think the study under vet. supervision is on sustainable dressage site, somewhere, i think it could be there they also they said fei decided in 2006 that there was no evidence to support a ban on rollkur.

the report also noted that the study included jumping horses who also had the same poblems, and that interesting rollkur was first used by showjumpers.
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Thanks. I had a little look but the only thing I can find is a paper published by a German publisher (specific link cannot be found and search function does not come up with the paper though I don't speak German and may be missing something). The claim in the website is that "80% of horses used for dressage and jumping had injuries around the attachment of the nuchal cord on the head. Horses used for hacking, trotters, ponies, coldbloods, had these injuries much less or not at all" and then in a magazine the author is claimed to go on to say that this is because of rollkur (those links don't work at all).

I have seen this website before but I find it quite disappointing. The author does point out that she has not tried to write a scientific paper, but goes on to rely on all sorts of scientific (or scientific sounding) points without a single reference to an academic journal. At best there are incomplete references to magazines and popular books. For me this website captures a lot about what is so deeply disappointing about this debate.
 
ok then here is a question, why do you suppose those horses are producing all that foaming saliva, running all down their legs,? something i have never seen a horse do 'naturally'
 
tristar said:
ok then here is a question, why do you suppose those horses are producing all that foaming saliva, running all down their legs,? something i have never seen a horse do 'naturally'
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Ah, I have :) But it was the pony I rode as a teenager. On turning into the cul-de-sac where my parents live he would start to dribble and foam like one of Pavlov's dogs in anticipation of the treats he'd get at the front door. Don't think that's what's happening in dressage though ;)
 
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