Hon, I’m 65, and ammy who “takes lessons” since I can’t afford to have my horse “in training.” I just don’t think it’s likely we’ll get to FEI levels given our relative ages and my budgetary restrictions with regard to training! ROFLOL
I’m with Sandy M
Hey Sandy, I agree, if the horses are that tough to ride then they really aren’t good dressage horses.
The original dressage horses were obedient cavalry mounts.
‘self carriage’ anyone?
I’m aiming for a “Century” ride myself
She turned me into a newt!
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Yeah, I had thoughts of that with my old guy, whom I had to have euthanized this past Feb. at age 24, but the ages weren’t going to work out, and he wasn’t going to stay sound (arthritis and then, sadly, lymphoma).
Newbie age 6, me 65… well, I guess it’s possible. My BO however, will do hers next Spring, she being 81 and her horse turning 20 in January. He’s PSG/Intermediare, but…well…life goes on and everyone begins to feel their age -I believe she’s opting to do 1st level for her Century Ride.
Oh, and lest someone think (because of my remarks about being and ammy who takes lessons rather than being in training) that I just fell off the turnip truck and dont know “dressage” from a hole in the ground, that old boy, who was a very average though “light footed” mover (sort of a daisy cutter - lot of TB in him) won or placed in All Breeds through 2nd level and was getting ready to show 3rd at age 17-18 (though having some difficulty with flying changes) when his arthritis caught up with him. Actually, I suppose the arthritis was probably part of WHY he had difficult with the changes…poor old sweetie. He started as a hunter and I later decided to “do dressage” with him. That’s him in my profile pic.
Ah, well. To throw a kink in the theory (that I too, have posed) that biting oneself during a test would most likely come from mouth mistreatment… Um. There was an eventer with what looks like an eggbut snaffle eliminated for a bleeding mouth.
http://eventingnation.com/home/wegblood2.jpg
(See http://www.eventingnation.com for the article).
I’m now fervently trying to find stats on how many horses have been eliminated in past international competitions for bleeding from the mouth. Otherwise, I’m saying it’s the footing and the weather. j/k of course, but wondering nonetheless.
Carl Hester was also eliminated this past summer for blood
Ugh the vid of Sjef or whatever his name is. Where the “h” did he come from? I would want nothing to do with him. And Anky married him?!
Who at WEG has been seen riding in RK and who not?
I remember watching vids years ago of NU riding Rembrandt. The clinician explained that R was ridden in warm-up like that because he was such a spook. I remember his head/neck being lower than usually seen at the time, but did not think badly of it. I don’t recall R’s mouth gaping open - or NU contorting herself by bending his head/neck or anything like that. The deep riding did seem to relax him. Has that morphed into what we now see and despise?
I think RK is a caricature of “deep” riding, grayarabs.
When NU was riding Rembrandt that way, I don’t recall that great force/leverage was used. She simply rode him “deep” till she got him relaxed and working the way she wanted. It works for some, not for others.
I DO recall, however, that there were many who condemned her use of “deep” riding and were thoroughly scandalized by it.
It sounded much like the anti-RK arguments nowadays, even though NU’s “deep” work is nothing like RK.
Beas - thinking about this and trying to remember. Seems to me that around that time I equated warmbloods as being big, boned and placid - did not associate spooks with them. Thought Rembrandt the lightest of the bunch - bone as well light on his feet - and thinking that he had more TB in him than the others - making him more reactive and hotter. The deep riding made sense.
I thought it was for him and him only. Unfortunately, Remy’s warm-up seemed to have opened Pandora’s box. In ways that no one could have imagined.
I think you’re right. I used to hear the term “Dumbblood” a lot years ago. I haven’t heard anyone call their WB that in ages.
In spite of the higher percentage of TB blood, they still give. plenty. of. warning. before. spooking. Compared to my client’s fast-as-lightening Arab, anyway.
An eventer was eliminated today same reason
