H&H Letter of the week

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Well Said !!

Sylvia Loch again talking common sense for those unblinkered enough to listen.

.....and for those of you that don't like my sig.......

..............tough ;-))
 
Sylvia is pointing out the ills of overproduction and over pressurising of young dressage horses and comparing that to the Spanish Riding school who don't consider their horses to be mature until 12 and therefore their horses go on well into their 20s

She also quotes a german vet (interesting that Germany was the main country complaining about rollkur...) that "classical methods take years" and that "the horse needs time to build up muscles and flexibility"

exactly why I complain about the overproduced 2 yr olds from abroad that are being ridden collected outline in sitting trot and doing advanced movements at 3 including tempi changes and then are knackered by the time they are 6

It's not just rollkur that is wrong.........riding 2 yr olds is one thing - riding them hard is something completely different in breeds that don't mature till they are 6 or 7.

I've had flak for my sig - and the reasons I have behind it - but perhaps I'm more 'enlightened' ;-)
 
Oh good I look forward to reading it when my post eventually arrives!


I really rate Sylvia Loch as she normally talks a lot of sense.
 
Not read it yet as postie comes while I am at work but.... couldnt agree more. Fed up of seeing young horses pushed before they have finished growing. Wish more people saw it that way!
 
Young horses should be allowed to enjoy themselves rather than being forced in to submission by being over-worked by doing contorted movements which do nothing but permanent damage to their skeletal and muscular tissues.
 
Would happily contribute if H&H had bloody turned up today
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. Better be here tomorrow....
 
I view the German vet and anti-Rollkur reaction to be 'small voices' v. 'big business'

There is no doubt that the factory farming of horses in particularly Germany and Holland is very lucrative.

To start to complain about this overproduction of young horses and the use of rollkur is a bit like trying to slag off Bernard Matthews when you are a smallholder with 30 birds .............. you might get the odd letter printed but money still talks

and in similarlity - BM gets 600k 'compensation' from us as taxpayers for bringing bird flu to this country - and the factory farming horse producers in Germany get state subsidies for what - to me - amounts to cruelty in some cases

I'd LOVE to see an international debate on this horse production in the same vein as the conferences on rollkur that have taken place (although not been unable to stop it happening)
 
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