It sounds very simple: “Treat your horse as you want to be treated yourself,” said Klaus Roeser, Equipech chief of the German dressage rider, at the Sportforum of the World Rider Association Fei in Lausanne. “The horse is the only animal that people encounter at eye level,” once said the famous coach George Theodorescu, the father of today’s national coach Monica Theodorescu. But of all things, the dressage – the equestrian discipline, which stands more than any other for elegance, harmony and dancing ease – has come into public criticism. So much that the World Association Fei dedicated a wide space to the topic at the Sportforum.
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