15 Nov 2012

Self carriage?




It might be a funny picture. But purely facts shows it happens way too often. It's seen too often in Denmark, it's so common. I don't understand how you can ever believe that all these "help resources" as they nicely call it, helps the horse to a better shape? It is force! When you are forcing the horse down like that, the muscles gets built wrong because the horse isn't allowed to use it's body properly. And it hurts! I get so disgusted when I see horses that are tight up from their head to their hindquarters. Maybe it's a simple and quick solution. But in the end you get a horse with possible joint problems, improper muscle composition, neck problems and impurity in the pace.

I feel sorry for these horses and not least their riders who feel compelled to use such crap to get their horses to go "nicely in self carriage".

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