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APRIL 2007 • VOLUME 20 • © HORSES For LIFE™ Magazine
"This morning the gift from sleep was the long and distinguished tradition of dressage as rehabilitation. Many of our great teachers, writers, theoreticians became famous because they used classical techniques to retrain horses who were damaged by a poor start or bad experience. In modern times, Egon von Neindorff filled his school with rehab horses (he bought them off the meat truck...I can't begin to tell the feelings I have about this). Wouldn't it be great to solicit a regular feature from riders who use dressage to help this kind of horse. Kind of a series of case studies." Rebecca Olmsted Thus one of our readers suggested a new series for our magazine.
Dressage can mean many different things to many different people. To some it means piaffe and passage. To some it means riding your horse from beginning to end in a way that is the most healthy for him both short-term and long-term. No wonder then, that many look upon dressage as “the” way to help the horse. Rehabilitation of horses is something that many riders and trainers face. Few of us get to start with a young, fresh, and healthy body. Too often the opposite is true - that the horse that we have in front of us has many problems in his own body, some of them that are inherent, some a product of past training.
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