Jean Francois Pignon...

If he were to work with horses singly rather than in a group and they still showed the ear flicking, tail swishing, etc., it would be harder to ascribe these actions to inter-horse rivalry or dominance or whatever.
 
I think that he looks to have a wonderful relationship with his horses. I have 5 who live in a field together and pull faces at each other all the time. When riding side by side my two mares pull faces at each other and try to get in front, making conversations difficult. But they hate being separated in different fields and like it when its just the two of them in the field.
 
fburton said:
If he were to work with horses singly rather than in a group and they still showed the ear flicking, tail swishing, etc., it would be harder to ascribe these actions to inter-horse rivalry or dominance or whatever.
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I watched the programme last night on the ITV player. Actually, there is a short section where he's interacting with just one horse and all the others are standing in a row in the background. There's quite a bit of ear pinning etc. going on there too, although the horse relaxes in the last second or two.
 
I haven't yet watched the TV program, but saw him at Olympia and really didn't enjoy it. The act felt degrading in my opinion. I actually felt a bit that way years ago when watching the Spanish Riding School of Vienna getting a horse to perform airs above the ground too!
 
A lot of sour grapes me thinks. There are a lot of much worse off horses than JFP's. I just wish he could transpose some of his talent to me - perhaps just his little finger - I can dream.
 
Clodagh said:
Like hh says, my three in the field have their ears back a lot - head mare saying gerrout my way and underponies saying OK, but I don't have to like it.
I think hes amazing.
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ours too.. Ron says move and Tom says ok but dont think i'll enjoy it!

I think he's incredible. Plus, when you watch top level dressage or eventing or show jumping a lot of the horses have ears back and tail swishing!
 
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