extended trots in dressage vs eventing

[Jealoushe]

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I’m sorry, but you just have NOT figured out BBR - bulletin board reality.

The dressage horse that scores lower ALWAYS is the much better horse

they don’t win because the judges are blind, paid off and incompetent (all at the same time, in fact),

actually, the WORST dressage horses are the ones that win, because the judges are just scoring that way, because they’re incompetent, blind and paid off, so they all get together and conspire to have the same 1-2 people win over and over,

ANYTHING a chronic winner does is BAD and WRONG, ANYTHING an American rider does is kind, caring and ‘for the horse’,

ANYTIME an american doesn’t get a medal it’s because the judges are blind, paid off and incompetent.

American rider’s mistakes in dressage don’t matter, or are invisible, or unimportant. Foreign rider’s mistakes DO matter.

When a foreign dressage rider has a mistake, it’s because they are a bad rider, train incorrectly, and don’t care about their horse, and the horse has just had it up to here, and finally just up and says, ‘eff you’.

When an American dressage rider has a mistake, it’s because it’s too hot out, or that is just one of those things that happens and horses are not robots, the rider was trying his best, etc.

Foreign riders NEVER ‘try their best’, and they don’t have a clue how to really ride their horses correctly; their coaches, all the tests they’ve ridden and gained experience from, all the medals they’ve won, don’t give them as much insight and experience at the international level as a training level rider from Resume Speed, Iowa, who could give them a few pointers and straighen them up right
away.

However, American riders, despite far less experience, mileage and coaching, don’t have that problem.

dressage horses should be thrown out of the ring for lifting their feet off the ground,

a piaffe where the horse looks like a circus elephant on a ball is the best piaffe, and

the TRULY best horse is the one that is discovered pulling a cart or doing riot control for a police man, or is WHITE, or BOTH, and

the event horses ALWAYS do much better dressage than the dressage horses, because they don’t lift their feet as far off the ground.

Every Olympics, without fail. Get with the program, Girl![/QUOTE]

WTF are you on?

[Larksmom]

eventing dressage vs GP dressage

Doesn’t anyone else here remember the huge discussion we had recently, thread may still be going on about collection in event horses? How it is very destructive of the horses because they don’t think for themselves? A problem for eventers, not GP horses.
I have seen a lot of high level 3-day dressage, and some good bit of GP, and yes they are apples and oranges, I do not think I have ever seen a better, more correct test than Galan Du Savauge in the '04 Olympics. I was SO disappointed when he was scratched. Ingrid also had a fabulous test as did the unfortunate Bettina Hoy. I saw very little this year and it was choppy. [I mean, I have dial up so don’t see much, and they showed very few whole tests.]
So I cannot comment on these horses. But I do think the talent pool is getting deeper, and the cream rises to the top.

[spotted_mustang]

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the TRULY best horse is the one that is discovered pulling a cart or doing riot control for a police man, or is WHITE, or BOTH[/QUOTE]

not white - pink! he was PINK! Surely that’s worth a few high scores. I mean, even Salinero can’t do pink. He doesn’t even know if he wants to be a liver chestnut or a black.