Dark Horse Dressage

08/14/2024

https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/2020/08/short-in-the-neck-should-we-get-used-to-the-look/?fbclid=IwY2xjawEpqsBleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHSjoBxbD-S-NSFGJbwEDAwC6b1MUJYFzs2H1H6MfZ_csfJ0jriT52nuqwg_aem_2iwqS_qcAUdoA71Q7uFagw

A great article.

Short in the Neck – Should we get used to the look? Posted on August 6, 2020April 12, 2024 by horsemagazine Everything that is old is new again… Back in January 2002, this paper by Albert Stecken was circulated throughout the dressage world, years later his words are still as relevant today as t...

07/03/2024

Christoph Hess on the direction dressage should be heading:
“For me, it is wrong when the rider is coming with his upper body behind the vertical. For me, the advice to every rider, is rising trot and light seat in canter, do it like this, and when you do this, then as a rider you get another feeling. Looking from the biomechanics point of view, you get more the feeling to be with the horse.” Ingrid Klimke and Damon Hill demonstrate appropriately in the CHIO Aachen warm up arena:
https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/2022/08/is-dressage-heading-in-the-right-direction/

06/11/2024

EDIT: Please do feel free to share/replicate/display this sign - I’d rather it went out into the world to be used freely and help horses far and wide than if it was just kept on social media!

I seem to spend a lot of time thinking about the ethics of horse sport, and whether we, as an industry, will be able to keep our social licence to operate.

Although we won’t get it right 100% of the time, I think the intent and knowledge behind our actions is a key part of the puzzle.

I have put this sign up on the gate of my arena, in the hope that it reminds me, all my clients and other users of the facilities to stop and think about our intent before embarking upon working our horses each day.

What do you think?

Photo: HDE ‘Promise to the Horse’.

06/02/2024

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03/12/2024

02/18/2024

https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/2024/02/jeremy-steinberg-rider-position-a-lost-cause/?fbclid=IwAR1EjvqoXlZmtpY7JqdGRe58gy67oW1bu9Hag5Sm88OsqzoTZQKh7AGF7lI

A very well written article.

Jeremy Steinberg – Rider Position, a Lost Cause? Posted on February 14, 2024February 17, 2024 by horsemagazine I was teasing one of my riders last weekend, asking her about the wording of the rules of a canter pirouette, which she didn’t know, but was showing PSG none-the-less. I gave her a hard...