Baucher method

[Pipkin]

[QUOTE=alicen;7821917]
I wish, I wish I could find the video (on the horse channel or some such -years ago) in which Hilda Gurney mounts a real cowboy on a big moving dressage horse and the guy lurches about in the saddle with the first big, springy trot steps. When he dismounts, Hilda asks, " Are you going to call dressage riders woosies anymore?" “No, Maam” is the reply. Clearly, if you’re going to be on the range or fighting battles for hours on end, impulsion, which has to be regulated by roundness, would not be the movement of choice. The historical dressage horse is about as similar to todays competitive athlete as a Model T is to a Lamborghini.[/QUOTE]

Yes! This is what I was trying to communicate and you did so very eloquently

[Pipkin]

[QUOTE=kande04;7821933]

I think the vets who perform the diagnostics often have a better idea of what’s going on with unsoundnesses in horses, but they don’t often know the relevant issues that led up to the unsoundnesses, so they don’t have the full picture either. And the owners, who often know a lot more, don’t very often share it fully and accurately.[/QUOTE]

This is interesting!

Perhaps it is sort of an engineering viewpoint? Structurally, if a horse carries weight in a certain way, it is stronger/more sustainable etc etc.