Newsletter n°1-2005

Posted Wed, 05/01/2005 - 00:00

Contents

A word from the president                       Colonel Carde
Equestrian culture : some poetry …        Sylvie Anduze-Acher et Josette Bleschet
To train or to judge ?                               Colonel Carde
Riders, coaches and judges are the main characters of dressage competition; one must, however, recognize that one and the same person may be qualified in all three areas, which require different skills.
Our first field meeting                               Henry Arnould et Margareta Westlin
A noble fight                                             Jean d'Orgeix
It’s OK to charge shouting “lightness … dear lightness” but shan’t we think about which point of resistance we must attack first and what opposition we must overcome?
The root causes of the damage               Michel Henriquet
Since 1950, some five years after the end of the war, Germany was the first European nation to resume training for the purpose of dressage the horses they still owned. Their hot-blooded horses, like those they borrowed from their defeated neighbors, had disappeared in the turmoil. They had to use middleweight and coldblooded animals coming more or less from agricultural work.
How lightness came my way …                Yves Delord