Animal Wild

Tag: Horse riding

  • 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, 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”…