Yes, I've heard others comment that the Kur was the beginning of dressage as entertainment etc etc. Agree that voting with money/feet (as well as lobbying and spreading the word) is the only real option open to most of us. The Aachen CHIO thread on here makes me think I'm living in a different world from other HHOers.
I would love to see the FEI take a zero tolerance approach but when the results of that type of training are so prevalent at the top level they'd soon have no one left. Even Ingrid K seems to have succumbed. Recent video clips show work that looks a lot less than classical
Well if there's no one left so be itI would love to see the FEI take a zero tolerance approach but when the results of that type of training are so prevalent at the top level they'd soon have no one left. Even Ingrid K seems to have succumbed. Recent video clips show work that looks a lot less than classical
Oh yes I wouldn't mind but they would hence it won't happenWell if there's no one left so be it
This is horrific, it makes me want to cry for these poor horses, his eye says it allJovian enjoying a marshmallow at Aachen
Yes he was, but if he hadn't been there'd have been little to separate him from many other GP riders in terms of the way his horses go. So, was he an outlier or (as suggested by his training of another rider also briefly suspended) is the kind of "whack them till they get it right/lift their legs up/etc" training actually endemic in top yards? These days it seems not a year goes by but some horrendous act of abuse is outed, upon which there's always a number of people on social media saying "there were always rumours" or "when I worked for x y did that", or "I've seen worse" (
) and so on. And honestly I find a lot of the riding itself, on display in tests, pretty abusive. It's not as simple as people who get caught beating horses up are the abusers.It’s all so very sad.His eye
Taking him out in public isn't doing her reputation any good, though, among people who mind about this stuff.
Is it her decision to take him out though, or the decision of his owners, upon whom her livelihood relies?
Presumably she wasn't compelled to take him on, though, or indeed make a living from horses at all. Everyone makes moral choices in all aspects of their lives.
what sort of history do you want?
Daniel Bachmann Loses Ride on Olympic Horse Vayron, Allocated to German Team Rider
Vayron, the Westfalian stallion which Danish Daniel Bachmann Andersen rode to Olympic team silver in Paris, has left the rider's stable in Denmark. The ride got allocated to a German team member.eurodressage.com
I did read he was supposed to be sold to the US before Ingrid got him
This is why I've never really felt it's possible to regulate welfare into horse sport without a level of scrutiny most people would find unacceptable. There are always going to be people who think of welfare as an obstacle to their success.It's a bit wild how people have been so quick to circumvent a rule and also how they thought this would be fine... My noseband isn't right steward see there's a big hole in it here
This. Appalling but true.
This is why no nosebands is the way to go. Nicer for the horse, less tack to clean and fit, less for the remarkably supine stewards to do, no arguments about what's too tight, etc. Win win all round, except for heavy-handed riders.
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, she liked the bit stability it gave (fairfax style or grackle styles were her preference) hence my question.
...I suppose I would have to ask how you know it was her preference? Did it reduce oral conflict behaviours?To counter that argument, the horse I took to advanced level dressage preferred a noseband
I guess bitless and noseband'less is the only way
Though really if she'd maybe had the 'right' training from backing maybe she wouldn't have been quite as fussy in the contact, but we made great strides with the tack we had.
