Anky & Bonfire - Kür Lord of the Dance

This is an attempt to editting music by a freestyle to music. The music isn't the original. The music is composed by Ronan Hardiman.

The songs used in the freestyle are:
Piaffe / Passage / Trot : The Lord of the Dance
Canter / Gallop : Siamsa
Walk : Victory

All songs are composed by Ronan Hardiman, and are from Michael Flatleys Show: Feet of Flames

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Anky
• Bonfire
• Sydney
• Lord
• Dance
• Kür

[Walnut28Comms]

Ditto with Equimovemaster! Anyone who criticizes Anky should be aware of her history with Bonfire. Bonfire was originally a very tense, frightened difficult horse. Anky worked patiently with him to become one of the most famous and popular teams in teams in the world. A lot of horses who need LDR, or to be ridden deep, are those w/ tension and fear. If they stay extra round, they slowly relax.

[jjclimb69]

She rides with a vice like grip/contact on the curb - this is not beneficial for the horse and creates conflict behaviours as a result. She rides without any empathy or natural feeling. Dressage should be about creating submission in the horse from the lightest of aids to encourage self carriage. I think the horse would fall on it's nose and sigh in relief if she let go! She uses horse as objects for her own needs and desires.

[MExJUDITH]

@darknightfall uhm, bonfire isn't dead???

[starletstyles]

I think it is far to say that the people that don't understand what she is doing are not to a high level of any type of competition riding. Therefore, for what they do not understand they love to voice their ignorant opinion.....

[MystSilverDragon]

@darknightfall Amen, rip bonfire, noble mount and friend of anky

[darknightfall]

RIP Bonfire :(

[quizillafreak]

@456duifje Actually, she did. She bought him as a gelding for 20.000 gulden from a breeder when he didn't make it as a stud. He was 2 and a half when she bought him and brought him to her home in Erp. :) There she discovered his talent for the higher dressage and trained him TOGETHER with Sjef Janssen.

[quizillafreak]

@MagnoliaDreaming I totally agree, When I was a kid I loved her, but then when I got older and learned more and more about horses and riding, I realised she wasn't all that great. Sure, the performance is simply stunning, but the way she treats her horses isn't at all that great...

[MagnoliaDreaming]

@1946foxcroft If you judge her ability simply by the amount of salivation that the horse is producing then you are blind and ignorant to the other signs in the video that show how heavily she relies on the curb to keep her horse's head down. Every video I've seen of her she has a vice grip on the curb; even if the horse is accepting all of this bit action that doesn't mean it's right. I'd much rather see this done without her constant curb pressure holding the horse down...

[1946foxcroft]

@MagnoliaDreaming I find it amazing that some one who at first appearances seemsto to know something about dressage, has failed to take note of the ïce-cream"in the horses mouth.

A sure sign that the hands are not hard and that the horse is totally accepting of the bit.

Where there any other signs of resistance; I think not.

I was there and I consider myself priveledged to have seen such a performance.

[fennafighter]

my favourite !

[456duifje]

Anky didn't train bonfire LDR :)