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We do not need bigger international bureaucracies sucking even more money out of us. The USEF is bad enough and no doubt they will jump on this bandwagon so as to extract their "high performance...

I have been following nearly all the threads about these accidents and safety in eventing for quite some time and have seen some very good thoughts and suggestions. However, I haven't seen any...

I have added video of the Dressage Tests since somebody asked about Eventing Dressage in the same context:

1982 Badminton Horse Trials - Dressage.

I have dug out of my archives movie clips of the first event at which I was a spectator.

1975 Ledyard Farm Horse Trials - Cross Country.

Keep in mind these were taken with a Regular 8mm...

It won't stop at animals. From Sunday's (13 Jan 2008) U.K. Independent

....... but nobody was hurt (from Horse and Hound).

By my reckoning there are a multitude of factors which if they line up just wrong result in an horrific accident. There is no single "magic fix" which will make the problem go away. Each accident...

I also receive a steady stream of useless equestrian catalogs. I have never bought anything through any of them but still they keep sending them to me. :confused:

Rare is the catalog that...

This is probably the best summary in seven pages of postings of the reasons why the USA has difficulty in maintaining consistency in international competition,

Europeans in general, and Germans...

Just think of the devout Christian teenager who opens their Teen Bible Catalog to find that Page 13 is devoted to Whips and Spurs, not forgetting the Magic Wand Glitter Bat! ;)

(assuming a...

One thing that this thread re-inforces, in my opinion, is that Eventing Rules are FAR TOO COMPLICATED. Given that the average fence judge is a willing but not very horsey VOLUNTEER, expecting them to...

As a long time reader and occasional contributor to COTH bulletin boards, it's appears to me that, for whatever reason, some people are obsessive over some issues. Flintus has 68 postings on this...

Reading the responses in this thread I am reminded of the poem/song by Banjo Paterson (who wrote "Waltzing Matilda") "Riders in the Stand":

But all the finest horsemen out -- the men to Beat the...

I second this opinion! The internet feed has been working extremely well for me! I just hope the extra income from internet viewers exceeds the incremental cost of the streaming servers and...

Last July I watched Amy Tryon and Le Samurai do "airs above the ground" before their dressage test at the CIC*** Barbury Castle Horse Trials in England. I just looked again at the video I took...

In some ways I find no sound preferable to the constant babble of commentators. Why is it that most commentators seem to be paid by the word? I can see what is happening. I have a copy of the...

Most of the replies to this thread are, in fact, enabling the neighbour to put in a helipad. These replies show that horses will not be affected and could be presented by the neighbour to the Zoning...

The hum is at the NBC end. They have an open audio line, partial open circuit or bad ground connection in their audio equipment which is picking up mains (60 Hz) hum.

So why is it that you "strong, independent women" need a Significant Other? :confused:

It's been my experience that the horsewomen I have dated either

(1) were carrying more baggage than...

I can't help thinking, reading this thread, that a lot of you (the general you) are like those folk who want more government services and lower taxes. You can't get there from here!

From my...

What I saw in the GP tests were mostly 5 metre circles although the FEI rules call for:

"3.2. At the pirouette (half-pirouette) the forefeet and the outside hind foot move around the inside hind...

This "discussion" is all about the human tendency to stereotype. So let's add a little fuel to the fire as a result of my watching the Internet video of both the dressage and reining competitions...

Horse TV has been stumbling around for the last two weeks trying to stream the World Equestrian Games over the Internet. They are now on their third attempt. For two weeks they haven't been able to...

I am somewhat depressed over the US-centric and Euro-centric tone to some of the replies to this thread. At least the European replies show that the US has no monopoly on chauvinism. You don't seem...

I finally figured out why the HorseTV Broadband coverage of WEG dressage is such a shambles. They appear to be inserting slow motion and other replays of rides into the video track without taking...