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  • Charlotte Dujardin again

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    Julian Rota
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    This post is actually to do with dressage generally. I have been reading a lot of Facebook posts, particularly those of “Milestone Equestrian”, a Canadian horse training business. From the nature of my interests, I would have expected to have seen more from animal rights proponents, but what I have actually been seeing is a…

  • Charlotte Dujardin, the story that keeps on giving

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    Update 2. Details have emerged of another incident in 2016 recorded by an allegedly shocked steward. For daring to raise her head, Dujardin shouted at the horse she was riding “you bitch”. So not exact the perfectly harmonious relationship between horse and rider she and her i lk would have us believe. It has also…

  • Charlotte Dujardin, update

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    Julian Rota
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    Janice Turner writing in The Times today about this and the ‘Strictly’ scandals, confirms as I said that “Deploying a long whip to train a horse to raise its feet in a stationary trot called the piaffe is not unusual. Dujardin just overdid it. Dressage has other controversies. That elegant bowed stance known as “rollkur”…