Archive for November 27th, 2009

Dressage: The art of conflict?

Written by Hiddenhorse on 27/11/2009 – 11:54 am -

Sorry for not posting anything recently I’ve been away, studying, – and this might surprise you, the world of dressage. For those of you that are natural horse-keeping enthusiasts you may think that dressage is about as far away doing things based on a natural model as it was possible to get, and you’d be right, certainly from a utility model and competition perspective; if you were to imagine a scale with natural horse-keeping and natural horsemanship principles at one end, where the horse is respected first and foremost as a horse then it would not be unreasonable to put dressage which is all too often about submission and compliance of the horse, as close to the opposite end of the scale as it was possible to get. Read more »

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