rachel_s
Well-Known Member
Simon Barnes wrote in the Times today
"So lets see you do a flying change
As I watched the dressage from the World Equestrian Games in Kentucky, I wondered if this is the most despised sport of them all.
Its not so much incomprehensible as perfectly opaque to the outsider; it involves horses; women are just as good as men; and the Germans are best. How many more reasons does the world need to condemn it?
Golf is regarded as frightfully manly so much so that they barely tolerate women at all in golf clubs but dressage is for wimps. All I can say is: try it. Try sitting on a grand-prix standard horse. Try passage and piaffe and flying changes. Its ... well, lets say it requires a little bit more physical commitment than hitting a ball with a niblick."
"So lets see you do a flying change
As I watched the dressage from the World Equestrian Games in Kentucky, I wondered if this is the most despised sport of them all.
Its not so much incomprehensible as perfectly opaque to the outsider; it involves horses; women are just as good as men; and the Germans are best. How many more reasons does the world need to condemn it?
Golf is regarded as frightfully manly so much so that they barely tolerate women at all in golf clubs but dressage is for wimps. All I can say is: try it. Try sitting on a grand-prix standard horse. Try passage and piaffe and flying changes. Its ... well, lets say it requires a little bit more physical commitment than hitting a ball with a niblick."