“When a dressage sportsman says he loves a horse, you should keep in mind, that Jack the Ripper said he loved women.
No one is able comment on this in a proper way, for this issue can be scientifically discussed endlessly – with new and new terrifying facts and details. Our article ‘Dressage: let’s dot the i’s’ is valid enough for a reader to understand how much this ‘entertainment’ costs a horse.
The video is the brightest – and the most terrible – illustration to what we always state and to everything that has already been proved a long, long time ago. Such cases were shown in our films Horse Crusified and Risen.”
Alexander Nevzorov
The article mentioned above is featured in the latest copy of the Nevzorov Haute Ecole Equine Anthology Magazine
These clips portray the foundation behind this new kind of horsemanship: to stop causing pain for control in exchange for cooperation from the horse.
All rights on the pictures are reserved by Lydia Nevzorov and the Nevzorov Haute Ecole
People learn by example…so why not use correct horsemanship and riding in lower level shows and help those who would like to learn by setting a gentle example?
Why not refer them to people who teach and do care?
…this debate can not be won on the internet it begins in the stable!
There are people that try and there may be moments when a still photo can catch an unfortunate moment, particuarly in racing but that is not an effect they are trying to produce such as rollkur!
I do not believe in using rollkur for show horse training…it is about submission, not suppleness. Even though we have good evidence about drugs and people the education is available…the choice is personal.Right or WRONG!
Thank you Alexander for your loving training. The rollkur method is hard to watch and the suffering that these poor horses are enduring has to stop!! Hopefully this abuse can be stopped with more education and awareness.
I just look at these horses eyes and see a crushed spirit – and for what, points & a sash & a trophy?…..I don’t get it…
So blessed by what nevzorov has achieved.would like to see kids all around the world learning this instead of being trained to compete without emotion on an animal that is full of emotion.When we work on loving in any area of life, we are given more love to work with.Love is strength not weakness. Favour is waking with a heart full of joy each morning & no weights of guilt & selfish desire to kill that joy.Please do all that you can to educate us about this loving way of working with animals!!thanks. Liz
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. ~Thomas A. Edison
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Enough is enough. This madness needs to stop.
OMG I CANT WATCH THIS IT MAKES ME CRY
How can these people live with themselves!!!
I hope wen they see these pictures of themselves it makes them ashamed and they realise the pain they are causing to these beautiful animals.
I see ignorance at the hands of the ‘experts’. I see abuse and a loss of connection between human and horse so extreme as to bring shame on the human. I feel deep sadness and disgust that as a race, our horse ‘professionals’ abuse their position and do not think, feel or open their awareness to the charges in their care. I hope the FEI open their eyes to what is happening, as to not take action leaves them in the same position as the perpetrators.
The terrible irony is that when we do put our horses first, we are actually also in the process of learning how to put ourselves first, when man turns his head away from nature it turns his heart to stone.
Beautiful love and leadership!
I could hardly watch the whole video. I’m horrified!
It is a shame that this treatment is allowed in our civilised world and a shame that people sit in juries who don’t have the eyes to see that and not the courage to go against this obvious cruelty.
Es passiert überall ,jeden Tag ,in fast jedem Stall….-auch ich fuhr Trabrennen,ritt meine Pferde mit Kandare,mußte “Widersetzlichkeiten”durchreiten und fühlte schon damals,daß das nicht das sein kann,was mich mit den Pferden verbindet.Diese wunderschönen Wesen,die uns wiederspiegeln,was müssen sie erdulden!Wacht endlich auf,verweigert Turniere solange bis die FN ihre Richtlinien ändert.Hängt Schuldige an den Pranger(Videoaufzeichnungen,Fotos machen,Beweise sammeln).Sprecht Reiter an,die ihre Pferde mißhandeln etc.Macht endlich alle den Mund auf und wehrt euch-unseren Pferden zuliebe.
It amazes me that humans will say they “love” their horse and yet subject them to such brutality in the name of art. These equine partners of ours who will try and try to please us, at the cost of their own bodies and spirits deserve a voice on their behalf. And we must be that voice.
Ignorance, putting goals before principles, selfishness, lack of knowledge,lack of moral responsibility, force ,fear, and intimidation. You get the idea …. it’s a barbaric approach that needs to be called upon to end. We must speak for the horse, end this way of so called horsemanship and invite the horse world to partake in an approach that puts the horse first, not the human.