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Credibility was totally lost on reading this;
“Correction: An earlier version of this story conflated Tennessee walking horses, a breed of gaited horse sometimes used in dressage, with dressage horses, and misattributed a video of horse abuse to the sport of dressage. This error has been corrected to reflect accurate reports of cruelty in dressage.”[/QUOTE]
^^ this!
The article also misses the whole point of dressage and its origins as the basis for training a horse ( as is often said, “dressage” is French for training). And the warfare origins of the sport? Think again to the now “classical” learning of the Renaissance. Being able to ride a horse well in a menage in this new style of riding for sport, learning and performance, rather than brutal warfare, has to do with the origins of dressage. It was something that every learned gentleman of the Renaissance era needed to be able to do, along with other elements of so-called classical education.
Well, and by the time I read about the mixing up of the TWH and dressage, well, I had to laugh. What a thing to confuse!
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