Dressage Freestyle to Music Thread

Mike Tucker forgot to mention that Minderhoud and Gal had as good as ruined Ravel with their Rollkur before Peters spent years rebuilding him as a horse...
 
Probably a political decision from the fei, dont want to catch a slowmo or close up of a blue tongue. Wouldnt look good from the public eye point of view:D

They could show us the entire of Rubi's test without any risk of that :p


Oh lord Avatar music now :/


Just for balance, this test is much nicer than the last few. How low will the judges score it, I wonder?
 
I liked Steffen Peter's test. Emotive music, a one-handed passage - wow. But lost marks for a couple of mistakes. Shame.
 
I liked Patriks Music and test - the horse didn't work anywhere near as over bent as he was in his other tests so much improved plus i love scandic. Really liked Rubi test and feel it deserved more. Love Ravel and Steffen but there were quite a lot of errors.
 
So, the two best riders so far score some of the lowest marks...

Mike Tucker is obsessed with Totilas, isn't he? I wish he would stop gushing like a pre-teen fanatic.
 
I would agree if the Swede before the break hadn't had 79% with similar mistakes and less "niceness" in between.
Steffen's choreography had a high degree of difficulty. If it isn't executed perfectly the mark is likely to be pulled down a lot more.
 
How can it be a 'wonderful extended trot' when there is not even a single hoof's overtrack?

And if you need to break from the front when you reach Grand Prix level then alarm bells should be chiming quite loudly, methinks.

So, in the extended walk - which should show several hooves' overtrack - Undercover almost manages to reach the front-leg mark with the hindleg. Tight back, perhaps?
 
Steffen's choreography had a high degree of difficulty. If it isn't executed perfectly the mark is likely to be pulled down a lot more.

So a safe, but rather poor test, with mistakes is marked higher than an ambitious test with similar mistakes but performed better in between? No I really don't feel that's a reason, there's no logic there.
 
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