It's the presentation.... Will anyone ever see that some of their angry, ill informed comments on this forum and repeated on the Eidfaxi site will not actually help the aim of treating the horses in a better way. You can have a good message you can have a great message but its the way you all present it that will make the difference. Already on another list, which some people here would have said would be completely opposed to what this list says, people have agreed with many of the things Judy said. On another list a person posts that there is a debate in Germany about 'better riding' ( but that's in German so it doesn't count). In the UK both Mic and I know that most people want to ride their horses better. Here where I live in Sweden I have been to many competitions - I have yet to see anyone that deliberately mistreats any horse ( yes there will be some somewhere). Sometimes in a competition a person does the wrong thing -and people in the crowd do not like it. What there maybe is a lack of education about what is the right thing, the kindest thing and the best thing. I utterly refute that the vast majority of people here are not open to listening, seeing and putting into place a better way of doing things - they just need to know what it is. The vast majority of people do not make money from horses - they have them because they love them even if they compete with them and only want to do the best for them.
If I was one of the people that this list wishes to 'educate' and I looked at some of these postings I would simply not bother to look again due to the ignorance of some of them. Unfortunately I would then miss out on much of the reasoning and comment on Judy's main posting having categorised it all as rubbish. Take the comment below: The poster gets the name of the double world champion wrong. She assumes that a Norwegian has a perfect grasp of English and can express anything straight after having competed in a world final and having a microphone shoved under his nose. He didn't thank his horse - which I suspect does not understand English or Norwegian. This major poster on the site is happy to criticise a person who she has not met, does not know, and has no idea about how he trains horses or people. So, as a competition rider, after reading that post do I think the rest of the information here is going to be a value? Once again.... it's all in the presentation.... Posting: > I watched that video again this morning, and at the end, they interviewed the > man, Stian Petursson, who won the WC T1 title on Jarl. > > > The interviewer asked him if he had anyone to thank. He thought a minute and > said that was difficult. When asked what he was thinking at the end, he said something about telling people who are going for the gold not to give up, and then said something about being surprised to win the second title, since the frontrunner had thrown a shoe. > > > I couldn't help but notice that he never mentioned the horse, or gave him any > credit. It was all about riders.... > >
