Your point would be…? 
P.S. and Velvet, as to that appropriate response, back at ya, dearie! 
i’ve seen the original of the photo without the background cut off - that photo’s been floating around for many many years in various formats, and has been done to death many times on different websites. the shadows in the original make it more obvious, but you can see it even in this one.
some years ago i was watching a well regarded local do her test and remarked on the excellent extended trot.
got myself wacked on the head with a cat for my comment. those legs must have been three feet apart. on the horse, not the cat. after a very pedantic and lofty lecture from an R judge on how grave and severe a fault that kind of er…’‘engagement’’ represents, now i always look.
suzy, how can you be cheering for Maria when she’s beating you? Quit trying to make people believe it’s me wrestling with Maria when she pulled you out of your chair after you slimed the floor in front of us during our dance.
It’s all about ME, ME, ME!!! (The only signature worthy of a real DQ.)
How in the WORLD did this get resurrected???
It’s all about ME, ME, ME!!! (The only signature worthy of a real DQ.)
that win international medals. When horses have six legs I’ll change that.
It takes a fair bit of money to compete in any equestrian events at any level. More than money it takes free time, which, with three children and a (small) farm in addition to horses, I do not have. When people say that because they haven’t seen me at the big shows then yes, it DOES come down to a financial commentary. Just about the only sport in which one can pay one’s own way at ANY level is barrel racing, and, well, ya jus’ AIN’T gonna see me runnin’ cans. Period.
I’d rather be right than president and I’d rather ride lower levels well than international levels appallingly poorly. Any time a horse is performing so unnaturally as to mark six beats in ANY gait that horse is being ridden appallingly poorly in my book. I just can’t see where the opposing side can be argued with any merit, but please, have at it. I’d love to hear the justification for showing a horse who cannot keep his hind feet in SINGLE time with his fore at the international level. Takers?
Is tenacity just another way of saying “stupidity?”
Wait until I get going on the “blooming necks!” hehehehe!
DQ, thanks for the laugh. I’m sure it wasn’t Classical Dressage our hunter gal was talking about!
suzy, if you would loan her your frying pan the nail sharpening would be superfluous. 
grog – what’s happening? Helllllpppppppp! 
You DID NOT chase me off of any board!!! You give yourself far too much credit. (wish I could make this emoticon ROTF and WHP, hehehe). I didn’t really appreciate being hurled on – or at least, I’m told I was hurled on; I can’t always be sure. Nope, I’m counting on you to stay here so that I can have my daily dose of egg on toast. 
i have a lot of books by rumi monica. he’s my main man. he also had a lot to say about dressage.
kathy, why is a door called ajar?
the book that just came out called ‘‘In One Arena’’ is probably the best thing every published on dressage. has anyone read it.
monica i think you need to explain the footfall of the 5 beat boogie the standardbred did as i don’t think it is a 5 beat canter or a canter at
all, but a broken pace with a hop. a videotape would be interesting, but i don’t suppose most of us go out of our way to video tape such things.
you know it is interesting…my original (and o so innocent ) post was September 8th. Think of all that happened shortly after!!! And then I thought about the Spruce Meadows charter plane that takes all the jumpers back to Europe and always leaves the Monday after the show is over. Kinda blows my mind when I think about all that!
I’m not too smart Jen, could you explain this statement to me please?
“but so does Monty Roberts and he’s the biggest charleton there is.”
Oh no! LOL
Hey, and I have a green horse to prove it! The stud bolted on Sunday when he was suprised, and he isn’t ridden deep…yet. Heck, I’ve ridden top FEI horses that were trained and shown in europe by top riders (not my horses…they were owned by someone else and I got to ride them), and these were riders who did not adhere to the “deep” method. Well, some were quiet and some were spooky. It has NOTHING to do with the type of training. (Granted, more riding in stressful situations usually makes a horse more quiet in the long run…but not always!)
I am also finding it extremly frustrating that every time we try and have a civil conversation it becomes a war were JW gets to slag everyone off! Whenever anyone fights back we get told to cool it!
JW if you prefer the western pleasure scene and think that modern dressage sucks then why do you torture yourself by coming to this board?! By now, haven’t we all figured out that we will never convince you and you will never convince us?!
jl, schatze, you are a person after my own heart. We give you permission to address us as Kathy.
The Half Halt Demystified is very clear, and extremely helpful to some of the unterminchen (students in Anglais). Others found it confusing, mostly due to the timing of the Half Halts. Jane clearly defines 3 steps to the Half Halt. However, depending on the ability of the unterminchen, 3 steps take 10, and they end up holding the half halts too long, which rattles pferden.
Glad I could be of service Kathy.
did you see fearless leader pretending to be al pacino in ‘‘taxi driver’’? oh that was so good.
Seems to me they get more air moving in that area than normal panties, so how can they be bad?
Ever notice how much worse nylon panties are compared to cotton?
(I had to come out here and see why this thread was resurrected. Gotta say, it’s just another weird tangent. 
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It’s all about ME, ME, ME!!! (The only signature worthy of a real DQ.)
I agree, Muley, the way Anky is riding in the pic doesn’t look like what I’ve been taught. I suspect that a novice (anything less than expert)rider would run the risk of the horse not using the scalenus muscle if they tried to ride ‘deep’, but this horse looks as if he is using his. Perhaps the expert riders can do so correctly. I think the novice would end up with the horse pushing down at the withers instead of telescoping the neck. It looks so artificial, also. I’m a bit skeptical that it’s any more than a fad, but, who knows, maybe I’m in error. I certainly don’t ride at an expert level, so it’s entirely possible that they’re right and I’m wrong.
“shuttling” the bit???
