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May 2007 • VOLUME 21 • © HORSES For LIFE™ Magazine
It must be terribly overwhelming sometimes for the dressage initiate. One camp will propose that it is only in rollkur that we can best aid our horses, as the lifted rounded back is the only back that can work in protection for the horse. The next camp insists that it is only in long and low that the pull on the nuchal ligament provides the horse with a raised back, that will be able to swing with the movement and support the rider. As if standing on my
front legs and then swinging my back legs around or trying to play a
piano with them is going to help my back! Then to complicate things even further there is a recent study in progress at the Swedish Agricultural University that suggests that working a horse low actually impairs the activity of the back,
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