FEBRUARY 2007 • VOLUME 18 • © HORSES For LIFE™ Magazine

Fact:
80% of horses that are involved in the sport of dressage and jumping experience ossification at the poll.

An astounding and scary statistic.

80%!!!

When the researcher discovered these amazing statistics, he truly thought he had discovered research that was going to change the world of dressage and riding. He thought this was going to be more profound, more earth shattering than any other discovery made by any master in the last thousand years.

He thought every rider would take this discovery, and we would see a healthier way of riding for every horse. This was a truth. This wasn't pretend. He had proved that dressage horses were in very serious trouble with the way they were currently being ridden.

Perhaps the researcher’s greatest fault was in believing that the truth would prevail. If he had been a student of history rather than a student of science, he would have discovered how laughable that concept actually was. Silly, silly man to think that people wanted to hear the truth! To think that people would change when faced with the truth.

Did he not take the history of his own science into account? The world was flat. Everybody knew it. Scientists and researchers that said and were trying to prove otherwise were laughed at, dismissed. Even Albert Einstein in our own century ran into the same problems. In 1905 he published his paper on special relativity, overturning the established concepts of time, space, energy and matter. 10 years later, his paper on general relativity caused much controversy. It wasn't until technology advanced in levels to prove his theory, that his paper and his work were then accepted. If someone isn't going to believe Albert Einstein, who had already at the age of 26 garnished huge respect for his scientific ability, they certainly are not going to believe or be willing to change for some scientist called Horst Weiler.

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