funny looking dressage...

[amycamycamyc]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...Zara-Phillips-protected-by-airbag-jacket.html

remarkably wet for a dressage class as stated by the subtitle...!

 

[*hic*]

Perhaps the reclamation of the polders is no longer working

 

[smellsofhorse]

A reporter who pretends to know what they are talking about bout but really knows nothing!

 

[MissMincePie&Brandy]

blimey! ...and people accuse me of being a wimp (toungue in cheek), because I only want to compete at dressage these days

 

[barbaraNcolin]

The Sun has also listed it as a dressage event, oh dear....

 

[Mrs B]

I think you'll find this is the new synchronised aqua-dressage.... Coming soon to an Olympics near you

 

[marmalade76]

I don't believe Zara has ever had the title of 'Princess' either.

 

[Charem]

Lol, never mind air jackets, we'll be needing life jackets if this is the future of dressage!

You know the papers really should just stick to quoting from HHO, at least then they stand a chance of having their facts correct.....

 

[asterid]

I hope my next dressage test doesn't involve water and big scary XC fences! Argh!

 

[*hic*]

I have to say that if I had not been pretty quick to realise what was in his head, my first ODE dressage would have involved water and scary dressage fences. The XC course ran round behind the dressage and he spotted the first horse going XC and went to chase it, luckily we were at A and didn't leave the arena as he belted towards X to catch it up.

Judge commented on that he'd obviously make a good XC horse - not sure that that's a positive comment in a dressage test.

 

[minkymoo]

Ha ha! They have edited it! I wonder if that is because I put 'the daily torygraph are a bunch of knobs' on my fb status...!!

Will have to take it down now so I don't look like one!

 

[smellsofhorse]

edited it!

why didnt they check their facts first?!

 

[SusannaF]

edited it!

why didnt they check their facts first?!

Because Fleet Street has been cutting down on editors, subeditors and factcheckers for a few years now. Everything's being given away on line for free, and that means there's simply no money to consistently produce quality journalism. They're just in a hurry to throw up as many articles as possible on the website, hence these errors, and everyone's overworked.