Blue Hors Withdrawing From Dressage??

AShetlandBitMeOnce said:
Wow, thank you for going into so much detail, really useful! It's interesting to look at the points you have made in comparison to someone like Becky Moody below
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Definitely better but not perfect, can you see the horse is still falling forward, leaning over the front feet/legs, as well as still slightly BTV and dropped in the poll. I'd also argue that the ribcage is still tilted downwards. This is not nit picking imo, no work is ever perfect and we should always be working on improvements. It does mean that it makes all of us wary of posting example photos, it's better to refer to certain FB pages etc to see a range of photos of correct work. And most correct work is not in the competition arena, nor even at the homes of competitive riders.

The most active group on FB that I know of that does have a "high bar" - https://www.facebook.com/groups/dressageschoolingdiscussions - and here's a good page https://www.facebook.com/@SonjaWeberReiten. Equitopiacenter.com has some great resources to help educate around posture and movement.
 
I do think that blue hors mat is long in the back, loosely coupled loins

I could never see why people raved about her
 
I wonder if an expert in pain research in animals is expert enough to pontificate on the likely experience of the dressage horse - or will he also need an Olympic medal or two before dressage people will accept that he might know more about pain than them? Good article, particularly as regards breathlessness.

Machinations About Mouth Pain in Dressage Horses

Drawing on decades of research in this area, David Mellor says it's time that horse riders acknowledge that some methods they use cause pain.
horsesandpeople.com.au horsesandpeople.com.au
 
Burnttoast said:
I wonder if an expert in pain research in animals is expert enough to pontificate on the likely experience of the dressage horse - or will he also need an Olympic medal or two before dressage people will accept that he might know more about pain than them? Good article, particularly as regards breathlessness.

Machinations About Mouth Pain in Dressage Horses

Drawing on decades of research in this area, David Mellor says it's time that horse riders acknowledge that some methods they use cause pain.
horsesandpeople.com.au horsesandpeople.com.au
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The breathing interaction with an open mouth portion of this article is interesting, I've not seen that raised as a point before
 
AShetlandBitMeOnce said:
The breathing interaction with an open mouth portion of this article is interesting, I've not seen that raised as a point before
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I do remember it being raised by Robert Cook (of the Cook bitless bridle) as a reason for no bit on the basis that breaking the seal of the lips screwed up the airway. But it's not got a lot of traction in the horse world despite, apparently, quite a bit of research - another article by the author here
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Equine Welfare during Exercise: An Evaluation of Breathing, Breathlessness and Bridles - PubMed

Horses engaged in strenuous exercise display physiological responses that approach the upper functional limits of key organ systems, in particular their cardiorespiratory systems. Maximum athletic performance is therefore vulnerable to factors that diminish these functional capacities, and such...
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