>>>>There have been some pictures posted on other lists taken at the >>>>evaluations held in the USA a couple of weeks ago. I saw nosebands >>>>digging into the soft tissue of the horse's noses - a couple of the >>>>pictures were posted by the horse's owner, who apparently saw nothing >>>>wrong with that. I saw pictures of horses ridden with contact in long >>>>shanked bits (probably broken mouthed) WITH dropped nosebands. The last >>>>time I checked the FEIF rules, that's illegal, but judges have been >>>>turning a blind eye to it for the past couple of years. I saw riders >>>>sitting on the cantles of saddles - saddles that were already placed too >>>>far back. These offenses are not some relic of the distant past - this >>>>was just a couple of weeks ago. <<<<
Who are the riders in the pictures? Judy http://icehorses.net http://clickryder.com
