Dunlin
Well-Known Member
First off, I am absolutely not trolling or any such variation of this, this is a genuine question.
I picked up a free local horsey mag today and flicked through it and there was a section with a 'professional trainer' teaching some schooling, leg yeilding or something like that and in every single photograph the horse was overbent and looked incredibly tight along the back.
I then browsed the for sale/loan board and almost all the adverts with photographs showed a horse well overbent, not just dressage or schooling pictures but 1 of a horse going along a Hunter Trial like it was an elementary test.
I mentioned this to the lady in the shop and she said it seems to be a bit of a fashion at the moment that the horses muzzle must bury itself into the chest so you have a nice outline and that sales of draw reins are rather high (which is a worry).
I am well out of touch and simply an occasional happy hacker now but back in the day I was never really taught to ride in such an outline, so long as the horse was working, controlled, on the bit and balanced we moved forward and I have to say most dressage tests were done with a pokey nose with fairly decent marks! Shame on me perhaps?!
I picked up a free local horsey mag today and flicked through it and there was a section with a 'professional trainer' teaching some schooling, leg yeilding or something like that and in every single photograph the horse was overbent and looked incredibly tight along the back.
I then browsed the for sale/loan board and almost all the adverts with photographs showed a horse well overbent, not just dressage or schooling pictures but 1 of a horse going along a Hunter Trial like it was an elementary test.
I mentioned this to the lady in the shop and she said it seems to be a bit of a fashion at the moment that the horses muzzle must bury itself into the chest so you have a nice outline and that sales of draw reins are rather high (which is a worry).
I am well out of touch and simply an occasional happy hacker now but back in the day I was never really taught to ride in such an outline, so long as the horse was working, controlled, on the bit and balanced we moved forward and I have to say most dressage tests were done with a pokey nose with fairly decent marks! Shame on me perhaps?!