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"Every system of horsemanship practised in the horse world today should come under scrutiny" Jaime
Jackson, 1992
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Robert Cook, 2003
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Lots of good reasons can bring you into the horse world.
It could be a professional interest - as a breeder, a trainer, a jockey and so on.
Perhaps you love agonistics, or you like some exciting risk, or you yearn the old times, when few cars were polluting the wind.
Perhaps what you want is to test your physical and mental balance. Or you like trekking, as a mean to feel the soul of unknown countries, or you like to look for new friends.
Some riders are mostly interested in horsewomen.
If you love any of these, you love riding.
Or you simply love horses, much more than what you can do with an horse.
What kind of an horse? Any kind; an athlete or a jade; a green foul or an old patriarch. No matter if it can share with you a show, or it can't. If you can ride on it, or you can't.
You can't hurt who you love on purpose.
Nevertheless, many current practices inherently induce soreness and pain. Some of them induce an immediate pain; some cause a delayed pain to a horse worn out before time.
If you love horses, you can help them a lot.
In the last years, a deep revolution is changing anything about horsemanship. Nevertheless, it's not so easy - mainly, if you are an experienced horseman - to realize that you have to review anything you know, and that you probably have to start from beginning again.
Here you'll find some layman suggestions - just to begin.