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Chazot Horse Kick

Chazot a OTTB first day in-hand, he protests with violent kicking. Trainer Jean Luc Cornille as always, is in right position to avoid kick. All training sessions with Chazot end with relaxed and calm horse. Sessions are about 10 minutes each day and increasing as he learns. To follow his journey visit Chazot's podcast page http://scienceofmotion.com/documents/horse_training_podcast.php

There are millions of riders all over the world who are outraged by the practice. James Crook wrote, “A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” Perhaps there, is a good idea. Educating efficiently the horse’s vertebral column is about orchestrating numerous and minute muscles contractions. Such sophisticated orchestration cannot be done submitting the horse to ineffective principles. Each one of us would not hesitate to stand up and applaud a great performance. Like -wise, each one of us should not hesitate to stand up for the horse and turn our back on the ring or even leave the show area when a rider practicing the hyper-flexion of the horse’s upper neck enters the scene. If 10 or 50 or 100 spectators stand up and turn their back on the ring or even leave the ring area, perhaps riders, trainers, judges, stewards and even the governing body might realize that if they do not respect horses, they may have to pack and go because a very large body of real horse persons will not let go. Jean Luc Cornille©2009 Petition

We have started a petition to ban the use of Rollkur, hyperflexion. This is to be sent to the FEI. We urge all of you to help us in this cause and send this to as many of your like minded friends. A video Blue tongue by EPONA.tv will highlight the plight of our equine friends. Click Rollkur To sign the petition Click HERE

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Where is the lameness in this horse?

The horse is three years old turning four. He has been backed four, maybe five times at the date of this video recording. Therefore, it is not a training issue. At three years old, the horse is so lame that he is not capable of trotting with a rider on his back.

 

Can you figure out which limb is hurt. In the next newsletter we will show you where the lameness started, why it shows the way it does and how it was possible to restore soundness.

 

The lameness was not identified until the backing process commenced. It became apparent with the horse’s adaptation to the rider’s weight. “It should be borne in mind that the weight of the rider will increase two- or three-fold during locomotion and also that more energy is required by a mounted horse. This energy must be obtained by increasing the stance phase as to recover more energy during the swing.” (Jose Morales)

 

After a large amount of money spent in photographing, scanning, and injecting every joint of the suspect limb, it was decided that it was a behavior issue since nothing wrong appeared on the medical examination.

 

As it is the case in 90% of the case studies, it was not a behavior issue but rather the expression of pain. Once we addressed the source of the problem, the horse became sound and perfectly willing to move forward. The reeducation lasted three months.

 

At the end of the session under saddle, the horse is somewhat better during a few steps. It was the result of a riding adjustment. This detail may help you to figure out where the lameness originates.

 

Tell us which leg is the source of the problem. E-mail your thoughts athelyn@scienceofmotion.com

 

This case is extreme but it illustrates a process which, to a lesser degree, limits many horses’ ability to perform at their fullest potential.

 

Almost all horses enter life with a morphological flaw, back muscle imbalance, limb kinematics’ abnormality, or other imperfection that the horse’s brain learns to protect or compensate for, but does not have the intellectual capacity to analyze and therefore to correct. If a horse is exploited in the show ring without addressing the imperfection, sooner more than later, lameness will be the likely outcome.  The gait abnormality created by a specific lesion is the gait abnormality that will cause the lesion.” (James R. Rooney)   

 

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