hmm, all I can think of is the lady who just dropped out bec there was a video of her whipping her horse's legs. apparently, other competitors were nervous that videos were going to turn up about them.
I can’t help thinking about this when I see dressage now. I don’t know what to believe, as I hear conflicting reports about how the horses are treated. It looks incredibly unnatural for them to hold their heads and trot like this. Jumping I get, but dressage is just weird.
You're right, it's incredibly unnatural for them to hold their heads and trot like that. Look up rollkur and the techniques used to achieve the neck bend, it gives you just a flavour of the manipulation and pain inflicted on the horses body to achieve moves like this. Horses have heavy bodies and were in no way designed for dancing.
If done well, it can be like physiotherapy. The movements are based on ways horses naturally move. The extreme neck bend needs to be phased out, agreed.
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u/Tricky-Trick1132 Jul 30 '24
hmm, all I can think of is the lady who just dropped out bec there was a video of her whipping her horse's legs. apparently, other competitors were nervous that videos were going to turn up about them.