Another excellent link to the bad effects of rollkur

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For anyone interested here is another excellent link to the bad effects of rollkur on horses.

www.sustainabledressage.net

At the top of the page click on 'rollkur', then on that page scroll to the very bottom and click on 'why not'

This is a really interesting article please take the time to read.
 
and a short quote showing some research...

"In conclusion, this study showed that DRES horses trained according to the Rollkur method suffered no more stress than did REC horses not trained for competition. The outcome lends credibility to the background of the Rollkur as a training method and may serve as an argument in the discussion about the ethical acceptability of some training methods common in modern sports practice."

http://www.animalsandsociety.org/assets/library/114_jaws09015.pdf
 
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and a short quote showing some research...

"In conclusion, this study showed that DRES horses trained according to the Rollkur method suffered no more stress than did REC horses not trained for competition. The outcome lends credibility to the background of the Rollkur as a training method and may serve as an argument in the discussion about the ethical acceptability of some training methods common in modern sports practice."


http://www.animalsandsociety.org/assets/library/114_jaws09015.pdf

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They also concluded:

Although these preliminary data provide no evidence for a detrimental effect of the rollkur training method on stress and/or pain in these horses, the number of horses in this study warrants more research. FINALLY it has to be taken into account that heart rate variability has, to the best of our knowledge not yet been proven as an established measure for chronic pain.

Therefore i read this as saying that they were not able to measure/tell if the horse was in bad pain, so they can't say there is no detrimental effect.
 
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and a short quote showing some research...

"In conclusion, this study showed that DRES horses trained according to the Rollkur method suffered no more stress than did REC horses not trained for competition. The outcome lends credibility to the background of the Rollkur as a training method and may serve as an argument in the discussion about the ethical acceptability of some training methods common in modern sports practice."

http://www.animalsandsociety.org/assets/library/114_jaws09015.pdf

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12 animals used and, from what I can tell, no control groups. Where are the comparisons to elite horses assessed when not being schooled used rollkur?

Essentially, they're comparing fit-horse heartrates in rollkur with recreational horse heartrates not using rollkur - and saying there's no statistically significant difference. That's thoroughly meaningless unless you compare the rollkur elites with non-rollkur elites. There're no details given for what exercise the recreational group was used to prior to the study, so for all we know they might've been the 7 most unfit nags you're ever likely to meet......in which case it would hardly be surprising the elites seemed less stressed in comparison.
 
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This is the same information that was in the video on Youtube. Just saying. I actually prefer reading it this way than in video form.

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Yes, I do too.
 
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