Pratoni Showjumping thread

Very pleased, he made day 3
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PMSL, well exactly! That belgium round was horrible to watch, but fair play to them, left all the poles in place, which is the object after all.
 
exactly what i thought! you're hardly a novice riding at this level, no one is going to be shouting "shorten those washing lines!"
 
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Why say he should shorten his reins - I will bet Pawel Spisak knows the best way to ride his own horse
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Maybe....but then again it is perfectly legitimate to say a coffin canter is needed XC at a certain fence, so why not say someone should shorten their reins....? (Playing devil's advocate obviously as I have a rather unorthodox warm up for SJ)

ETA - meaning that we are happy to criticize other aspects of riding, so why not that?
 
NOW you are playing devil's advocate
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Fact is, quite poss if you rode that horse on a contact SJing he crashes through fences or fusses - who knows. But every horse competing at a 4 star should be capable of coming back into a pinging canter on the XC fence - the fault with Burghley was rider error, and lack of knowledge/thought on how to approach the fence - bleurgh, I just missed Vitoria because I was writing this LOL!
 
riding with longer reins means you have to keep your shoulders back more, and you give a bit more freedom in the air... maybe this horse likes that. Robert Smith rode with washing-line reins for a very long time, remember... i don't recall it stopping his horses from jumping spectaculary!
of all the horses there, i want Gamour (Tiziana wotsitname's) the most, he's stunning, and she rides him brilliantly.
 
Vittoria rode a v nice round! I know the Burghley example was a bit poor, what I really meant was that we criticize every other aspect of people's riding, so I don't think it's unreasonable to mention that, esp as a commentator who is trying to find things to say about people jumping round the same course and bearing in mind non-horsey people may be watching! Considering they felt it important to mention stud girths! They have to talk about things the lay-person will understand too, and reins isn't too technical if you know what I mean. I am sure they would agree he probably knows his horse best, but they have to talk about something....
 
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riding with longer reins means you have to keep your shoulders back more, and you give a bit more freedom in the air... maybe this horse likes that. Robert Smith rode with washing-line reins for a very long time, remember... i don't recall it stopping his horses from jumping spectaculary!
of all the horses there, i want Gamour (Tiziana wotsitname's) the most, he's stunning, and she rides him brilliantly.

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It was very rude and ran off with her yesterday XC
 
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