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are all the ribbons green?[/QUOTE]
I believe they’re all the green Rio colour but the centre of each is the medal colour (gold/silver/bronze).
And actually, the really big news regarding this competition is Severo finishing in 5th place! How cool is that!
I am trying to watch this but the site keeps redirecting to some " dressage hip hop" thing?! Maddening
So honored to be able to see them ride live! Charlotte and Valegro are such amazing artists together! As are all the other riders and horses. Many tears to my eyes moments with multiple riders.
THANK YOU top riders of the world!
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Usually I dont agree with you but in this case yes…[/QUOTE]
I dont really care if you agree with me or not 
[QUOTE=Crockpot;8798816]
I dont really care if you agree with me or not ;-)[/QUOTE]
Dont worry I dont care about you either at all and I guess my post was still too nice for you
Take it outside, you two. (And I don’t want to hear “She started it.”)
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Take it outside, you two. (And I don’t want to hear “She started it.”)[/QUOTE]
I agree:)
but if you agree with someone - just agree
why add- I dont usually agree with you
that makes it personal
aND I dont care -
if I agree with a post will just say so- no matter who says it
Also, a fun fact, women have dominated Olympic dressage with golds and silvers since 1984, with only two men getting bronze since then. 7 out of 10 of the top individuals in these games are women. Pretty cool
Isabel’s ride was fluid and forward, even if the choreography seemed to me to be slightly more conventional.
Laura’s choreography (those 2xs on the half circle straight into 1s on the short diagonal continue to be impressive!) struck me as more complex and demanding. But, Laura’s horse seemed to show a bit more tension in the second half (with Laura masterfully holding him together). My non-horsey mom commented “he seems to be charging.”
I’m always interested in the use of music in freestyles. Today, I think it helped that Isabel’s music was often “perfect” for the movements. (Sometimes, Laura seemed to be a little behind her music and “holding” while the music caught up).
All in all, today seemed to me to be a reminder that top freestyle scores (at least in the context of “well known” riders) can be gained with “relatively” simple choreography.
Well done by so many today – inspirational!
well here I go, back into the past again.
But really, In 1982, I was on a tour that took us to Switzerland, for Dressage WC, and Germany for WC. Thee were no recognized Kurs at the time, but there was a Prix St. George for the ones who were not quite ‘there’. I am fairly certain Christopher Bartles rode a horse whose name I do not remember, and he rode to ‘A walk in the Black Forest.’ I seem to remember tempi changes on a circle, and I was blown away by the music. Such a happy tune!
Sadly, most of the music today I thought sounded like it belonged at a Very. Somber. Occasion.
And I know some of you really liked the Roger Miller stuff, but STRINGS? :eek:To Roger Miller?They should have just put it out there with Dang Me, England swings, and Kansas City Star.
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And I know some of you really liked the Roger Miller stuff, but STRINGS? :eek:To Roger Miller?They should have just put it out there with Dang Me, England swings, and Kansas City Star.[/QUOTE]
Whose music used Roger Miller?
The thread is too long to sort back through, I apologize for not seeing that.
Was Bartle riding Wily Trout?
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Whose music used Roger Miller?
The thread is too long to sort back through, I apologize for not seeing that.[/QUOTE]
Judy Reynolds from Ireland used King of the Road in her freestyle.
Badger, yes he was! I THINK it was PSJ, but it was a lonnnnnggggg time ago
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Badger, yes he was! I THINK it was PSJ, but it was a lonnnnnggggg time ago[/QUOTE]
Here they are doing a GP freestyle a couple years later. For years they were the highest placing Brits in Olympic dressage (IIRC 5th in LA). But not any more!!!
OHHHH Badger I do remember that horse. They were in a video I think about dressage. I remember Chris saying about WT, ‘he behaves as if he is entire!’ I had never heard it refered to it that way! He comes from a very accomplished family. I think he had two sisters who were upper level eventers.
But I just remember the scene at Lausaunne. I didn’t know much about dressage, but had managed to go because it was a package with the eventing. The people I was with knew a bit more and explained to me. It seems that he rode a PSG and I remember him doing tempi changes around the bend. On a circle? Don’t know. 1 2 or 4 tempi changes? don’t know. A walk in the black Forest is a great little tune
Sigh. I lost my feed and didn’t see Carl or Cassidy, and then I’ve been sleeping. Man, these times are killing me. I didn’t have the best feed and I don’t know I got a great sense of the music, but for the most part I didn’t like it. I “think” Cassidy’s and the male Spanish rider had the more inspiring that really went with the horse.
I “think” the Germans were overscored. Desperados does have something going on behind. The BBC commentators commented on it on both of the GP tests, and yet she still got 9’s.
Almost everyone is doing the same difficulty in piaffe/passage with turns in piaffe, passage half pass, etc. Everyone is doing two canter pirouettes, yawn. Really, Laura was the ONLY one really addressing difficulty in tempis, and she did a fabulous job. Almost everyone else did less than in the GP test, and at most, a slightly bending line.
I thought Isabelle’s music was much better than Laura’s. When Isabelle signaled for her music to start, the rhythm hit you right in the face, and her horse was dead on the tempo.
Since music is such a high % (who knew?) I want to hear and appreciate the cadence that the horse has with it. Background music does nothing for me.
Maybe the 1812 Overture?
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He’s actually a Dutch horse! LOL![/QUOTE]
I know. I really wish the Irish team would ride Irish horses
