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A demonstration of true horsemanship from Alizée Froment and Mistral du Coussoul showing the world that Grand Prix dressage movements can be performed without resorting to torturous training methods of rolkur / hyperflexion and flash nosebands tightened so much that the leather is digging into equine flesh.
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"For the sake of any animal you have ever loved I implore you to help carry on this great and needful work for suffering animals whose lives are ones of unremitting toil" Dorothy Brooke For the Love of Horses. The Brooke.
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Horse Quotes, Favourite Horse Quotes,
"A career or a life with horses?" Molly Sivewright, Thinking Riding.
"genetic proclivity toward the equine species..." Allan J Hamiliton quote
"Maximizing your own knowledge of horse health ..." Douglas O Thal quotation
"His closest friends were his horses ..." Sir Henry Cecil
"People ought to quit worrying so much about whispering to their horses ..." Greg Darnall.
Never to lose one's temper with the horse is a good precept - Xenophon
Good riding is an affair of skill but bad rising is an affair of courage - Colnel VDS Williams OBE
Brazillian proverb - He made the horse
The jewel of my childhood - ponies -Nell Gifford
Your horse should be a trusted friend - Xenophon
Praise for thoroughbreds - Dianne Grod
The horse is a very noble creature - Desmond Morris
Make him your FRIEND - Oliveira
stables are the real centre of the household - George Bernard Shaw
Monica Dickens - You and your horse,
Sherlock Holmes - Game of Shadows
Black Elk - A Sky Full of Horses
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For the second year running all horses and jockeys returned safely from the Aintree Grand National.
This year's National was won by the 25-1 Pineau De Re who only a few weeks ago was hurdling at Cheltenham.
As so often with the Grand National there's a touch of the fairytale to this win, Pineau De Re was trainer Dr Richard Newland 's first National runner, Dr Newland only gave up surgery practice earlier this year to become a full time trainer, and jockey Leighton Aspell once retired from racing but returned a couple of years later.
Of course the 2014 Grand National was not without controversy. A false start resulted in a stewards' enquiry which when reconvened after an intial hearing all 39 jockeys refused to attend.
The enquiry has now been adjourned and will now take place at the British Horseracing Authorities headquarters in London. It remains to be seen whether or not the Grand National jockeys will face disciplinary action as a result of their refusal to attend the hearing.
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