Pictures in Both Horse and Hound and Eperon

How pleasing it is to see that Colonel Carde has endorsed my feelings about the picture in both of these magazines.
I, being only an Amateur, have been saying to my friends that for me this picture is not what I am trying to achieve with my horse (under the guidance of Colonel Carde) - when I have suggested to this to one particular French friend ..who has been doing very well in dressage competitions - she states that the horse is winning and therefore that this is correct !!!
Voila! Colonel Carde's point indeed!

I think I prefer to lose in my dressage competitions, rather than win with a horse who is 'stressed' and until the dressage judges take a good look at how the horse is actually 'going' and deduct points for 'tightness in the neck', 'swishing tails' etc..then the whole point of dressage in the first place becomes a complete farce.