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Thank you [EMAIL PROTECTED] for your Dressage statement!
Dressage means "training for the well being of the horse"
Why do people automatically think negatively about the things they know nothing
about?
k.
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> Date: 2003/01/08 Wed PM 04:35:22 CST
> To: fjordhorse@angus.mystery.com
> Subject: Re: President's message in the Herald
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> I wanted to comment on the part of your statement that said,"...I have no
> interest in changing the Fjordhorse breed into a dressage pony." As a fellow
> dressage rider I am always mystified by this kind of comment because the only
> thing a good dressage horse possesses over another horse are regular, correct
> gaits, freedom of movement in the shoulder and HOURS and HOURS of training.
> Breeding horses that are good in dressage means that your are breeding a
> sound, athletic horse that has some degree of self carriage. How could this
> possibly hurt the breed? Dressage doesn't require extravagant movement, but
> correct movement.
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> My German dressage instructor told me recently that during W.W.II that all
> the top German dressage horses were made to work in the fields so that they
> wouldn't be used as food or military horses. He said even after 3-4 years of
> pulling plows, they returned to doing their Grand Prix work and were just as
> good. Dressage doesn't mean the end of versatility.
