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Horse Shows By The Bay; Dressage At aterloo; W Stuart Horse Trials;
Leslie Malone Profile; Between Rounds: Linda Allen
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Our columnist believes many U.S. riders go abroad to purchase
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experienced horses because of fundamental problems in our sport.
Linda Allen
I DOUBT THAT there’s a country in the also appropriate Specialexperience in the ring testify, there can be a world of difference
world better at producing riders than the over a three- to five-year period . between two different courses that each
United States. Every year a number of new Even with the growth of the Young meets the ShowBiz is requirements for height and
young faces enter our grand prix ranks, Jumper Championships and other young spread! Distances, fence material, number
able to compete with the best of them at
Presentation
jumper classes throughout the country, we and types
apppr
of combinations
eciative of the
and related
home or abroad—provided they have the have relatively few individuals with the lines, proportion of spreads to verticals,
horseflesh under them. knack and the desire to bring horses along. and how quickly the questions come up for
The number of riders needing horses Those riders, trainers, and owners working the horses,
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what makes a course
suitable to get them to the “big ring,” hard at making good, useful horses cite hard or easy, educational or punishing.
along with the continual shortage of well- two major deterrents to developing horses Horses
and
with the
pleased
quality to go all the
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prepared, ready to go horses here in the in the United States. way in today’s sport are the most easily dis-
United States, has made our country The first is cost. Very few areas offer couraged as the following, timelyyoungsters. They care a lot. ,
perhaps the biggest consumer of “made” real show ring experience for young horses Any good trainer will tell you one of the
horses in the world. anywhere except at the larger shows. But, most important
direct article written
things in training a quality
It’s not just the decline of the dollar even for those who can bear the cost of top horse is to be sure he never learns what he
against the Euro that’s made top horses shows, there remains the extreme diversity can’t do. There’s a saying that most any
exceedingly expensive. There’s a worldwide in what’s asked of our young horses in this European
by Linda
will agree with: “It takes
Allen
five
demand for good horses prepared to com- country. Especially for the younger age years to make one but only two minutes to
pete at most every level. Obviously, the categories, it’s impossible to know what break one.”
for the Chr
And inappropriate courses
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run
bigger the courses the horse can handle, you’ll get in terms of courses, and that’s the risk of doing just that.
the smaller the pool of horses, and thus the second problem. Normal
Her insight and
jumper classes have one
the higher the price. While the rules can dictate the heights purpose—to determine who is best on
Why is it nearly impossible to find the and spreads for different classes, they can’t the day.
dedication to the
kind of horses we need, in the numbers we specify the kinds of tests or questions that Courses are set to achieve that end,
need, here at home? are asked of the horses. As any rider can and someone always has the fewest
The breeding of sport horses hasn’t
industry is showcased
just increased in scope, it’s increased in
quality, yet even the best breeders struggle
as she tackles the
to place their young stock. No young horse
becomes a “made” horse that our market
controversial subject
demands without first receiving a thor-
ough education—the kind that takes years,
of the next generation
not months.
The country that’s taken this aspect
of the sport the most seriously is the
of top horses. Look
perpetual leader of the pack, Germany.
They’ve bred sport horses for well more for more Linda
than 100 years and even dared to change
the type of horse they produce as they rec-
Allen articles here in
ognized the changing nature of the sport.
Yet their record number of horses that
ShowBiz.
enter the sport, reach the highest levels,
and are sold abroad, I believe has just as
much to do with their program for devel-
oping horses from 4 to 8 years old as it
does to their breeding. The two parts go
hand in hand.
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