Dressage When you pay a reported €1.9million for a youngster and it gets injured before 4 years old ?

[shortstuff99]

That's the problem with a lot of Warmblood breeding, longevity as well as brains (in that the horse is a sensible citizen) has gone out the window. I know this is a sweeping generalization.

It's mostly about the movement, the wow factor, and if it can bring money now who cares about later?

Obviously some breeders care about this stuff, but priorities vary.

People are buying the movement, even if they can't actually ride it can't ride it or simply don't need it.

I'm 98% sure I know of a wobbler at the yard. They don't recognize it, and think nothing is wrong. He has such obvious signs of not being sound. Sort of sad, really.

I had a big moving warmblood (KWPN) with questionable but not terrible temperament. Realized I prefer an average moving small horse ?‍ my average moving small horse is making it much further (somewhat easily at times) in dressage than said Warmblood ever did.

I do keep wondering whether you are going to end up with two different dressage sports now. If they keep breeding the paces bigger and bigger how are any of them going to be able to collect for the GP movements? Will be physically impossible! End up seeing even more terrible piaffes ?

 

[Aperchristmas]

God that walk is really, really weird and I'm not surprised the horse has broken. Even if you ignore the weird leg movement that ycbm has explained so brilliantly, his whole loin area just looks bendy and unstable.

 

[tristar]

unstable is the word


i have always thought the english are the best horse breeders, sometimes i wonder what some of these continentals are thinking about, and why they cant see when its going pear shaped

 

[mavandkaz]

Re: the congenital C3/4 (WB) and C6/7 (TB) malformations - is there any research indicating if this is a dominant or recessive gene problem? I couldn’t find anything when I looked into it. Sorry for bad terminology, I’m not a biologist.

i don't know about dominant and recessive, but after my TB was diagnosed with changes to C6/7, I did a bit of reading. Came across an article that basically said they know which lines it runs through, but continue to breed as it still makes economic sense, even if the horses end up literally dropping to the floor after a few years.
so sad.