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Flossy is well known to many on the British Dressage Forum as a teller of interesting stories and perhaps the odd joke or two. We have selected a few tales for your pleasure.
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Globalization effect
Globalization effect
With the FEI new policy of opening dressage to countries, new and old big or small, came few unexpected situations.
One of the incidents during the Hickstead CDI brought to light how similar an international dressage show is to the Tower of babylon and what a long term effect it may have over dressage.
During the CDI it was noticed how a Top Competitor’s style of riding and horse’s way of going changed.
Over the day’s Top Competitor’s horses developed a slight swinging motion of the hind legs ,not up and down but left and right, from test to test that swing increased and grew until the free style performance resembled a traditional Caribbean love dance.
To spectators and other competitors it was a great source of amusement and they applauded Top Competitor for sexing up and making dressage more amusing .
To his Trainer it was constant annoyance and frustration , he approached him after one test and bellowed
“WHAT THE F,,,,,K are you doing , what happened to straightness, steady lines and hind leg control we have been working on all these years , soon you will even go Dutch “.
Top Competitor reply was “ I am only trying to do what the Foreign international JUDGES WANT TO SEE, look at my score sheets they repeatedly say “ , “ more Twerking required, horse not twerking up , twerk up twerk up for higher marks”, every 2nd comments was about horse not Twerking up .
“I am only trying to show what the judges want to see AS YOU TOUGHT ME” Top Competitor replied.
Senior Trainer, being nearly old trainer, walked away in disgust muttering to himself “and they think that Totilas judging is a dressage CRISIS”
In the evening during the informal cocktail party the Senior Judge was approached by an international judges from an Amazon tribe that immerged unexpectedly from the rainforest for the first time last year.
The new judge asked the Senior Judge for some help with English equestrian expressions. His question was “ what is the correct terminology for describing the activity of the horse’s hind legs when they step forward well under the body of the horse with the hind legs foot prints well over the foot prints of the front legs ?”.
“Tracking up or over tracking” was the Senior Judge’s reply .
The latest recruit to the FRI judges panel pondered for a moment and then said “So it is not TWERKING”
With the FEI new policy of opening dressage to countries, new and old big or small, came few unexpected situations.
One of the incidents during the Hickstead CDI brought to light how similar an international dressage show is to the Tower of babylon and what a long term effect it may have over dressage.
During the CDI it was noticed how a Top Competitor’s style of riding and horse’s way of going changed.
Over the day’s Top Competitor’s horses developed a slight swinging motion of the hind legs ,not up and down but left and right, from test to test that swing increased and grew until the free style performance resembled a traditional Caribbean love dance.
To spectators and other competitors it was a great source of amusement and they applauded Top Competitor for sexing up and making dressage more amusing .
To his Trainer it was constant annoyance and frustration , he approached him after one test and bellowed
“WHAT THE F,,,,,K are you doing , what happened to straightness, steady lines and hind leg control we have been working on all these years , soon you will even go Dutch “.
Top Competitor reply was “ I am only trying to do what the Foreign international JUDGES WANT TO SEE, look at my score sheets they repeatedly say “ , “ more Twerking required, horse not twerking up , twerk up twerk up for higher marks”, every 2nd comments was about horse not Twerking up .
“I am only trying to show what the judges want to see AS YOU TOUGHT ME” Top Competitor replied.
Senior Trainer, being nearly old trainer, walked away in disgust muttering to himself “and they think that Totilas judging is a dressage CRISIS”
In the evening during the informal cocktail party the Senior Judge was approached by an international judges from an Amazon tribe that immerged unexpectedly from the rainforest for the first time last year.
The new judge asked the Senior Judge for some help with English equestrian expressions. His question was “ what is the correct terminology for describing the activity of the horse’s hind legs when they step forward well under the body of the horse with the hind legs foot prints well over the foot prints of the front legs ?”.
“Tracking up or over tracking” was the Senior Judge’s reply .
The latest recruit to the FRI judges panel pondered for a moment and then said “So it is not TWERKING”
