Pride is one answer. Maybe one of few true answers.

So what is the question?

So what is the FEI really saying about Rollkur? And is their answer based on fact or fiction?

We talk about rollkur and how it is going to hurt the horses. But what is going to happen to the riders? How safe are the riders using rollkur? Might seem like a strange question considering that rollkur appears to be a method of control, so how can control make us unsafe?

Heather Moffet speaks out about her thoughts on rollkur and shares her experiences of the late, great Dr. Klimke on what he thought of something that he saw in his warm up arena.

So what is it that we are seeing when we look in the dressage arena today. The extended trot looking so very different from what we once saw. Are the horse's just that much better today, or are they perhaps doing something completely different?

The F.E.I. definition of extended trot, how to recognize it and what does it look like. While observing the complexus muscle group and its use in extended trot and how it all but disappears in many rollkur horses.

Badminton, is a fascinating spectacle. Join us as one spectator shares his impressions of a fascinating weekend of one of "THE" events in the English countryside.

What do you do, when you pick up the reject mount that nobody else wants to ride? Rejected because of his bad personality and a body that just couldn't agree on what to do, when. Do you give up, or is it time maybe to learn something new.

Add Your Voice : Reader's Comments

Tell us what you think about this issue! Are you outraged by the FEI's leap that rollkur is "good" for the horses? What makes a horses beautiful to you? What words would you use to inspire others in their riding?

A Badminton Pictogram. Jumping is the modern day version of the airs above the ground, the airs above the ground are the previous version of jumping. Actually the airs above the ground where at one time, called just that jumping. The riders who rode the airs above the ground were the "jumpers", in those days before we began jumping with our horses. See if you can see within each jump the elements of ballotade, croupade, capriole, levade, courbette, each is there.