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Two Free Articles! The Dressage Steward Comedy and The Nurse Mare Foals

Come join the circus with Anja Beran. The circus has a long and distinguished history as being the place for demonstrations by the top equestrians of the past. Today there is still one circus that believes in years of training for the haute ecole horse, a horse trained for years, often until they are twelve to thirteen years old before they begin their professional career in the circus.

Nurse Mare Foals a must read expose. This article brings to light a shocking story of an industry whose regulations has led to a senseless and cruel practice.

Please sign, forward and share the link to the petition that asks for the industry to find a different answer. It is up to us to help the foals that are being born and discarded all in the name of sport.

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We step into the riding arena to find out why some horses have problems bending! Find out the 7 different reasons why horses end up leaning through the turns and have problems bending. Find out what you can do to help your horse - once you have the tools to evaluate why your horse might be having a problem.

Do you really understand what the purpose of the FEI is? It is NOT what you think it is. What one rider calls "magnificent 'out of the box' thinking." But where do we go from here? We need to work together, to find the answer.

After Dr. Cook's excellent article last month on the warm-up, http://horsesforlife.com/ThePhysiologyOfTheWarmUp where he covered the importance of the warm-up from a physiological perspective, we approached Dr. Cook about his response to the new guidelines for the dressage stewards.

We loved his irreverent, funny and to the point article so much we just couldn't wait to share some of it with you.

Excerpt from the next article in this issue:

"The warming-up ring is now referred to, I see, as the training arena. Perhaps it has always had this designation. Silly me. I had assumed that horses were already trained when they arrived and only needed to be warmed-up, a process for which 15-30 minutes is surely adequate. But if they still have to be trained, no wonder that such prolonged and draconian “techniques” are to be employed at the ninth hour.

To name the warming-up ring as the training arena seems to exemplify the short-cut training philosophy apparently being condoned by the present-incumbent-administrators-of-the-FEI (PIAFEI ... pronounced ‘piaffy’). Never mind! If one hour of training is not sufficient, the PIAFEI have thoughtfully made provision for this to be doubled or even tripled. Three hours should do it. Away with the need for those boring years of preparation." Dr. Cook

We couldn't help but follow up on this with the video article "The Dressage Steward Comedy". One rider comments. "Great vid. You nailed it!!!" Well we have to give thanks to one of our fans on our facebook page for the inspiration. We hope that this satirical look points out just how silly it is to suppose that the suggestions of the FEI committee can be implemented and enforced.

Enjoy more humor with Susan Medenica on "Variations of the Master's Leg". A funny and humorous reminder of what our legs are and aren't supposed to do. I can see many instructors taking this piece and posting it in their own barns for their own students!

EIPH: Find out if your horse as risk. New research points out to how different head positions may be contributing to this problem in more horses then we ever thought before. This is no longer just a "racehorse" problem.

A young Dominique Barbier provides us with a telling window into the equestrian world in 1977. This article has to raise questions on what is happening today and where we want to be tomorrow.

The first step in training our horses has to be Losgelassenheit. This oft misunderstood explanation of relaxation is the basis of all of our future training. Without this no horse can work properly. Read and find out more.




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