Just Say YES! Taine and Lesage 1932 Olympics

The historical and inspiring ride of Colonel Lesage and Taine at the 1932 Olympics. Join our Just Say YES! Campaign - send us your inspiration!! http://just-say-yes.info Presented by Horses For LIFE Publications, publishing Horses For LIFE online magazine. A video to inspire everyone of working with the horse freely ahead of the vertical! Free Articles at: http://horsesforlife.com

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Pets & Animals

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• dressage
• horses
• Lesage
• Taine
• 1932
• Olympics

[TheProudHorsePR]

Is the horse calm, keen, attentive and confident? Is the horse supple, loose and flexible? Yes. Is the horse able to perform in front of a huge audience without having to be framed into submission? Yes. Lovely example of harmonious development of a horse by an empathic, feeling rider. And how lovely to see a horse allowed to use his neck and head as part of his overall balance. Refreshing really.

[brokefordstud]

What I find most important is not to compare Taine with the modern dressage horse but to compare the way Lesage rides to todays riding. I find his timing, sympathy, generosity and lightness to be inspiring.

I wouldn't particularly want a horse to work like Taine but I think that Lesage could have asked the horse to work more "over the back" if that had been what was wanted.

But one thing is clear - NEVER is Lesage demanding anything from this horse, they are a partnership at all times.

[FeeTurbule]

@moynzie The problem is that a few people see the grace & elegance that you are describing. We are not living in a time of poetry, we are living in a time of spectacular technology, horses are not seen as sensitive creatures for many riders, some people talk about their gaits like about "mechanics" or "machines". How many time did I hear that word: "mechanic"...

[dressfan]

Great great video....they were heroes from another era, thanx for this!

[reflexnavajo]

Thank you for this video, it's amazing!

[leaowens]

@brokefordstud - excellent comments - 79 gold bats to you ;-)

@fleur4198 - if a horse was free to choose, he might choose to avoid this sort of work, he might choose to run free from humans and be wild, wormy, unrugged in winter, dying of diseases that vet care can prevent and fix, starving in droughts, drowning in floods, etc. I don't know. Maybe he'd choose to be cared for and ridden. (lol - if I could choose I'd choose to not do housework, to not go to work and to do whatever I wanted)

[fleur4198]

@droac6584 They cared how it effected the horse??? In which way? Did they care about healthy hoofs, did they care about back muscules that are SMASHED in ALL of sport horses... or ... did they only care how to pull, push with the spur, bend the neck and "work in the mouth" to get better movements???

Everything IN BASE, in motivations and facts, is the same... before and now... Just the scale is bigger now...

[fleur4198]

@droac6584 Not ANY horse would ever run to a human from the field with bridle in its mouth and say "let's bend that vertical" or carry those "bags"(read: riders) on their backs for ENORMOUS amount of time, run those races on MAD and totally overextreme speed that only makes horse break from inside and die slowly during years while its "CARRIER" is going on...

[fleur4198]

@droac6584 Only blind and totally full of "pink horsie dreams" nowadays can't see that bits in ANY position, level, frequency of use and size ONLY MAIM horse, make it submit, afraid, nervous. To say nothing about health problems. Human needs horse for HIS OWN PURPOSES and USAGE, you can't disagree with this...

[droac6584]

@equinedancing

I agree, thank you!!

[droac6584]

@fleur4198

But that is our fault for not making dressage more advanced today, not theirs. They were doing the best they knew how and what is our excuse today? We know better and yet ride wrong anyway, atleast they were trying their best and cared how it effected the horse.