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5 comments:
As usual the Spanish horses are beautiful. It's sad though to see that the only time the horse is doing correct timing is when shown in slo-motion. Ya think they would get the idea that the horse looks goegeous on tape when he is in slow motion instead of the frantic movement seen otherwise wth his head cocked to the outside. The iron in his mouth is immense and I am sure this beautiful creature has been through some hetic stuff.
Dianne,
Funny you should say that, because I was going to address this video to you, and ask what in the world was his front end and back end doing? That "crow hopping" behind looked terrible. Odd, because I posed a clip of this same gent doing a tandem long line presentation, if you recall, and it looked pretty good.
Wade
Dianne, is that a driving bit in the horse's mouth (buxton or liverpool-don't remember the name)? I have never seen one used on a dressage horse before.
Thanks,
Chris
Chris,
This is not a dressage horse. It is exhibition long lining. As such there are no "rules/regulations" as to equipment an/or required movements. The bit looks closer to a Buxton, with a little different shank.
Wade
Chris, this is a bit made in Spain, very long shank with places to attach the reins in 3 different places for degrees of leverage. The longer the shank the more severe the leverage, this handler is using the middle which gives a lot of pressure, the last place on the bottom would be the most servere in which case the horese's head would drop down and work would be almost impossible. Too much bit but the style of training is mostly force so the need of leverage to compensate. It makes an exciting horse but not a correct or happy one and many times a very desperate one. The one thing you can say for the Spanairds and Mexicans though is that they have absolutely beautiful horses. I have seen a few really good horses come from here but mostly the horse's brains are scattered due to force training. I believe if they stepped back and took a breath, slowed down these trainers would be hard to beat.
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