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Comment by Jonathan Boudin on March 2, 2010 at 11:11pm

Hi everyone, I have a new book out that teaches kids the basics of riding dressage. It is called The Little Red Riding Book and it is a fictional story with lots of educational information. I'm not one for sales pitches, but of you'd like to check it out the website is www.redridingbook.com and it is available through Trafalgar Square (horseandriderbooks.com). Thanks!

Comment by Mary McGuire Smith on February 27, 2010 at 7:40pm

Hi Wynne,
The link on your website to Phillippe Karl's information doesn't work. Neither on the picture, or on the page buttons on the left column.

Comment by Wynne on February 27, 2010 at 2:42pm

Hello everyone, have a look at this!!

Philippe Karl's School of Legerte is coming to North America in 2011!!
For complete information please visit, www.ForTheHorse.com, click on Philippe Karl. Interested riders need to apply as soon as possible as positions are limited.

We are excited that this world class classical dressage master is
offering his lifetime of learning to interested riding instructors, for
the first time in North America.

www.ForTheHorse.com

Comment by SUSIE-SOLOMON-MABE on February 12, 2010 at 10:44pm

hi everyone, I am wondering if there is anyone on this list who is in the northern California area. I am having rotator cuff surgery next week and as a result my horses wont have anything to do. So if a rider is without a horse and is in my area and wants to ride play whatever please email me.
susie

Comment by Jan Jollymour on February 12, 2010 at 8:52pm

There's a world of difference between a change which isn't clean, and a halt which doesn't happen. Technically, a movement which doesn't happen at all means a zero, whereas a movement which is a mess could be anywhere from a 1 to a 5. I would never give a simple change a 4 when a flying change was requested - that requires a more expressive mark than 4, but at least if the lead is changed something along the lines of the demanded movement occurred. If nothing occurs then the mark should reflect that (it's really no different from not managing to get a canter transition when one is called for, or riding a diagonal instead of a half pass).

Comment by Elizabeth J. Chilcott on February 12, 2010 at 4:07pm

Interestingly, i saw the same thing with the flying changes in the Sydney Olympics. It was the first time that flying changes were in the advanced test in Eventing and several people, whose horses were not ready(one assumes), opted to do a simple change and still got 3-4. Again the answer was they "changed" even though flying change was asked, they did change leads.

Comment by Jan Jollymour on February 12, 2010 at 3:34pm

I hate to say it, but I really do believe that the judges are the biggest part of the problem. As a judge that's not a wonderful thing to have to admit, but I believe it's true. Until the judges grow some backbone (I don't think they don't know what they see, they're just too spineless to say truly what they think, Stephen Clarke's protestations be damned) nothing will change, because the riders will do what wins.

The truth is that if anyone else omitted the initial or final halt they'd at most get a 1 or 2, and more likely a 0, Anky gets a 4 because she's Anky.

Comment by Elizabeth J. Chilcott on February 12, 2010 at 10:03am

I was chatting with an "I" judge at the annual USEA meeting and I asked how Anky could get even a 4 for the final halt/salute when the horse never once stood still. Answer: ......she saluted.

Comment by Elizabeth J. Chilcott on February 11, 2010 at 6:13pm

I also have to agree that the judging is a main source of the problem. You can use all kinds of tricks to create "leg movers". If the judge cannot (or will not) see that the movement is not coming from the use of the horse's back and rewards this false collection, then trainers will continue to do what wins.

Comment by Jackie Cochran on February 11, 2010 at 8:32am

I totally agree with slc2 about the judges.
In all equestrian competitions the judges act as a god, and the standard the judges reward become the ruling religion of the showing world. If the judges reward extravegant action, then the action just gets more and more extreme as people try to win. I saw it in the Arabs.
Besides, the paying audiences really like flashy action, listen to the applause, the gasps of astonishment. Much more exciting to watch than horses just going around the arena. Of course only an extremely small portion of the audience truly understands what is good movement in a dressage horse, so the audiences just show their appreciation of flashy movement. If both the judges and audiences reward the flashy movement, the flashy movement will be produced.

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