I get Western Horseman, The Horse, and Equus all with my membership in the AAEP (equine veterinarians). It’s a pretty big group, which doesn’t hurt their circulation numbers. I didn’t ask for any of these. The only one I don’t read is WH, so I give it to my housekeeper, since her husband is into Western.
ETA- Just looked it up, and WH is not listed as a benefit of membership, so now I don’t know why I have been getting it for years. I don’t get billed for it,
My husband subscribes to Harpers, and for years we also received Harpers Bazaar for free. Not a ton of overlap there, except for the name. :winkgrin:
I figured it out. On the mailing label is the code WRSS where a subscription expiration date should be. This is Waiting Room Subscription Service, which places publications in places they think a lot of people will see them (like a veterinarian’s waiting room). Won’t do them much good, because when I practiced, it was out of a truck, so no waiting room, and now I’m retired, so the only person who sees it is my housekeeper’s husband! They probably do use the AAEP mailing list.
Someone asked who owns the copyright to the Dressage & CT archives. The original contributors presumably own the rights to their own material, and the material as published is owned by Ivan Bezugloff’s estate. The USDF has permission to reprint material, and in fact USDF Connection is currently reprinting excerpts from Hilda Gurney’s early training series, “Sequential Schooling of the Dressage Horse.”
There is some wonderful material in the D&CT archives, and it’s a pleasure to introduce it to a new generation of dressage enthusiasts. Today not so many top trainers seem to want to be prolific writers in their spare time, and I think that’s part of the reason we don’t see too many self-penned training series any more.
Jennifer Bryant
Editor, USDF Connection
I was the person who suggested republishing D&CT. I looked up in the US Copyright center and it says the copyright to D&CT is held by Primedia Enthusiast Publications…at least in 1998-1999.
If USDF owns the rights to the material “as published”… I may offer a suggestion. Why not do a limited edition, boxed volume of all D&CT issues since start of publication…including ads.
I think it would sell. I mean if Harry Boldt’s Das Dressurpferd now sells at $400 (original, out of print edition), I think people would buy a D&CT reprinting.
I have my collection of old D&CT mags dating from my grad school days stashed away in some box. It is not complete.
I would love to be able to read a classic article by Dr. Max (Gahwyler) discussing the impact of scoring the gaits vs the training on the final score of a dressage test.
This isn’t a Either/Or question…either publish sections in Connections OR reprint the mag…I suggest it can be BOTH.
I always loved the Hilda Gurney articles that were “up the levels” or series of of “how to.” Those, and others like them. were so useful.
As someone who rides on my own, except for a clinic roughly every 6 weeks, I really studied many of the articles of DT. I learned how to introduce shoulder-in and the flying changes from articles that I actually ripped out of my DT.
I’m hopeful that the combined magazine will still have some the very practical content that DT contained. It has been a great resource for me as I’ve moved up the levels.
I’m going to try to be positive about this change. DT has been declining for a while now… fewer helpful articles and more fluff. I’d rather have a quarterly magazine with better content than a monthly with little value.
PH subscriber here. Current HJ rider. Former dressage rider who showed thru 4th level.
PH was pretty skinny the last few issues. I was wondering if it was going under.
I thought this mashup was an improvement on the last few issues of PH I enjoyed the new dressage content. Jimmy’s column is still there and I see no mention of it being George’s last column, but I could have missed that.
The letter that was included with the magazine seemed to be to be addressed to DT subscribers, not PH subscribers, but at least it explained what’s going on.
I do miss the conformation critique. Maybe they could do one that rotated between disciplines and have the critiques rotated between experts in that discipline. Or even something that compared and contrasted desirable traits for different disciplines.
I keep receiving copies of Horse & Rider (did NOT subscribe), and for the most part find it amusing but not relevant to me. I find, however, that I can place/not place their conformation clinics quiet easily. If I DON’T like it, it probably is 1st place of the three horses shown. If I LIKE it, it will be last. (setting aside ones with conformation flaws that would be obvious and not wanted in ANY type of horse). LOL If I set aside my “English” choices and go with western, I can also accurately place them. Once in a while, the clinician talks sense though and doesn’t go with the over-muscled down-hill horse!
I’m very disappointed in this change. I renewed my subscriptions to BOTH Dressage Today AND Practical Horseman right before the new magazine was sent out and I’m pretty upset that I wasn’t informed of the change before I sent my money. I wouldn’t have renewed. But I guess that’s why they didn’t tell us. So now I’m stuck with four years of a subscription to a magazine that I don’t like. If it was still going to be monthly, I would probably just leave it, but changing from monthly to quarterly with no warning to subscribers is not acceptable. I just emailed them asking to cancel my subscription. We’ll see if they respond or if I’ll actually have to call them. The only reason I hesitated hitting the send button was because now I don’t know what I’m going to read while pooping. However, the new magazine is really too heavy and awkward for that anyway. Plus, no more George Morris?!? That was the best part of PH! Ugh.
I called and canceled my subscription, supposedly will receive a refund check. What’s interesting to me is that I wasn’t asked why I was ending a long time subscription
seems like that’s info that would be useful
I will be unsubscribing. I got my first quarterly issue and didn’t really want to wade through the H/J stuff to get to the dressage articles. Plus it’s now bigger and only quarterly. Even though DT was a little skimpy, it was nice to have something to throw in my carry-on bag and read on the plane. There is not enough dressage content in the issue to justify subscribing to receive that only 4x a year.
I thought that was odd, too.
They said they would refund to the credit card I subscribed with, but that number has changed due to sketchy charges, so I don’t know what will happen. I hope the credit will roll to the new number, but most likely it will be rejected, so they will have to send a check that will be much delayed.
Well, after looking through the “new” Practical Horseman", I found myself pleased asn surprised at the articles about Para-dressage riders and others. So maybe this won’t be so bad – as long as the articles keep up the quality in this first issue.
QUOTE=Repertoire: I’m very disappointed in this change. I renewed my subscriptions to BOTH Dressage Today AND Practical Horseman right before the new magazine was sent out and I’m pretty upset that I wasn’t informed of the change before I sent my money. I wouldn’t have renewed. But I guess that’s why they didn’t tell us. So now I’m stuck with four years of a subscription to a magazine that I don’t like. If it was still going to be monthly, I would probably just leave it, but changing from monthly to quarterly with no warning to subscribers is not acceptable. I just emailed them asking to cancel my subscription. We’ll see if they respond or if I’ll actually have to call them. The only reason I hesitated hitting the send button was because now I don’t know what I’m going to read while pooping. However, the new magazine is really too heavy and awkward for that anyway. Plus, no more George Morris?!? That was the best part of PH! Ugh
Agree with Repetoire!
I just VERY recently (like, in the last 2 months) subscribed to both DT and Prac Horseman, and am annoyed as both publications had to know this was in the works while still actively recruiting new subscribers. I have subscribed to Prac Horseman previously, but its been a couple years.
And am further annoyed that not only are they merging, now its only going to be quarterly AND no more George Morris jumping clinic! Am all around disappointed.
So, if I literally just subscribed to both (for what was supposed to be monthly issues), I wonder how that converts to
quarterly. By that, I mean, I know what quarterly means (4x per year), but will they double what they now owe me since it was supposed to be two separate subscriptions to both? I’m confused on how that part will work.
For the record, have always subscribed to COTH!
I am also annoyed and will not renew DT. I would subscribe to COTH but it takes too long to get to the west coast.
I’m also not thrilled. I’ve paid for several years but won’t renew.
Copyright law is a giant mess of a thing; it’s unambiguously clear to contact one beloved author and secure reprint rights.
That said, post-Greenburg (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenberg_v._National_Geographic ) I think the copyright holder would be in the clear to republish them, preferably (at least to me) in electronic form. I am not however their lawyer and there are a near-infinite number of ways it could all go wrong.
Yes, I was excited to see that article (especially since it also referenced a para clinic I rode in last year!) - although they managed to mis-label the para riders in that article in a kind of obvious way which was probably a bummer for the riders (but in the scheme of things, not important). Hoping it continues in this direction and I’ll be satisfied.
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