https://www.horseillustrated.com/horse-videos-editors-choice-videos-valegro-charlotte-dujardin/ Tue, 24 Dec 2024 12:17:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.horseillustrated.com/horse-videos-editors-choice-videos-valegro-charlotte-dujardin/#comment-385639 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 20:49:53 +0000 /horse-videos/editors-choice-videos/valegro-charlotte-dujardin.aspx#comment-385639 Unfortunately dressage has become a spectator sport recently. Instead of showing correct training, obedience and harmony with the rider, most of the free-style competitions are demonstrations of piaffe and passage. The extended trot has become an excercise in flinging the front legs high into the air while the hindquaters are not pushing forward to show a correct extention. Dressage has become a circus with horses getting very high scores for movements that have been incorrectly performed. Winning riders are those that can do the passage/piaffe for a LOT of the test. So sad that our riding skills are being lost to performing skills that appeal to the spectators..

]]> https://www.horseillustrated.com/horse-videos-editors-choice-videos-valegro-charlotte-dujardin/#comment-326428 Thu, 09 Aug 2012 18:07:42 +0000 /horse-videos/editors-choice-videos/valegro-charlotte-dujardin.aspx#comment-326428 Way to go! Congrats!

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