I am not able to find a link to this del mar website? I keep finding racing…
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You have to go to the Adequan West Coast Dressage Festival page on facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/adequanwestcoastdressagefestival/videos/1404994799629798/
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Steiner: “She must have a trainer of some sort.” What kind of trainer indeed?!?!
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Post a video of you riding. I’ll be over here, waiting.
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Very, very nice horse…
Wow, just watched. She could not ride his trot at all! I was amazed at her hands going all over the place. Never mind upper level movements. Amazing that she would even attempt to show at that level.
I could grant that the horse may not always be easy, but she gave him so many reasons to be difficult, that it is hard to be anything but positive about what he did do.
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Wow. Just wow.
“So, whatever it was, it was not poetry in motion.”
If I ever do a dressage test, Who Knows what I would look like, but this made me think of those dressage comedy skits.
I thought for a bit he was thinking of launching her, but decided against it.
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Right, I think the horse resisting must be off to the left of the visible frame as she enters. When they then show her, he’s saying things like “I remember this ride” which makes it seem like it should be old video from the prior day, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. The camera picks her up right after the salute should have happened and the rest of the test is there. (Also, you can’t edit the content of a Facebook Live video after it’s over. You can delete it, or you can change things like the title and thumbnail image, or add captions, but you can’t actually edit the video itself. You could download it and edit and reupload it, but then it would no longer show as having originally been live.)
Finally got to see it!:eek: Just about every rider “crime” in the books. Locked back, frequently locked elbows. lower legs flailing. Improper use of the whip. Hands crossing over neck, hands waving in actions suitable when directing an aircraft landing on a carrier at sea.
That rider could possible benefit from months spent daily riding on the longe with no reins, and then again riding off the longe with no reins. She may then learn to use her legs.
But she can say, with a superior attitude, “Well, I have competed at Intermediare 2” , if she dares.
Lovely horse.
Axel has mellowed.
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I think he was saying that he remembered this rider/horse pair from a ride the previous day. I would want those judges to explain how that could get a 50%. They needed to be braver about using the judging scale and giving low marks when deserved.
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Yes. Apparently her ride the previous day was much the same as this one. Again, a good reminder when people get snarky about some of the top CDI riders paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for “made” horses, they still need the strength and skill to ride them and we shouldn’t underestimate their skill, just because they have a big budget or sponsors with deep pockets.
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So, I’m a super-inadequate rider. 100%. But that was excruciating. And, sadly, it made me feel a lot better about my inadequacies. The horse is a saint. An absolute saint.
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I want to know why she wasn’t rung out. In Eventing I have seen many friends eliminated for horses who were tense and jigging etc, much much less worse than this sh*t show.
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On a more positive note, does anyone know if Laura Grave’s master class will be available for viewing?
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Yes, I believe you can re-watch everything. Just click on the last session from yesterday and the re-play should start. She’s the first hour or so of the last session yesterday.
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I have never done eventing dressage but is tension / jigging really against the rules? You can be rung out for errors, for lameness, for prolonged resistance that prevents the test from proceeding, and if there is a threat to rider safety - for example one show where I was scribing they rung a rider out due to a loose horse galloping around the show grounds near the ring. They let her start over from the beginning once the horse was caught.
Poor riding, poor horsemanship or a poor performance aren’t something a judge can halt a test for. She was eliminated after the fact due to taking one of hands off the reins (repeatedly) but I don’t know if that’s grounds for the judge to stop the test and ring her out at the time it happens.
It was a terrible display of horsemanship but I don’t think it comes close to approaching “abuse” criteria. Certainly no worse than the “abuse” up-down school horses suffer in beginner lessons every day. It’s just really unusual to see it at this level, let alone on a GP horse formerly campaigned successfully by a member of the Dutch Olympic team!
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Yes! I just finished watching it. All of the videos that streamed live can be viewed anytime on the show’s Facebook page
Is it just me or did she yank the poor horse in the mouth after the final salute??!!
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Dear Dressage Gods,
I do not ask for much. I only ask for the same terrible riding skills (complete with jiggly ankles) that you have bestowed upon Vorst D’s previous rider who was scoring 70+% at GP.
Amen.
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