Re: Going bitless...dressage bashing

["Linda B. Merims" <lbm@ici.net>]

K S SWIGART   katswig@earthlink.net said:
>Linda Merims said:
>> , but I always thought is was funny how the stated
>> goal of dressage was to have the horse move forward "naturally"
>> and all it took was 8 years of schooling before a horse was
>> ready to move forward "naturally" in Grand Prix.
>
>Dressage has no such stated goal.  There is nothing “natural”
>whatsoever about dressage (or about riding any horse or
>subjecting it to the control of humans)...

I didn't think I'd get away with that unscathed.  But I was
starting to hope.

Uncle.  Conceded.  I'm wrong.

Linda B. Merims
lbm@ici.net
Massachusetts, USA