These horses were still in balance, both physically and mentally. Modern horse breeding and modern riding are going in the wrong direction. Horses are no longer trained to stay healthy with a rider on their backs, but to support the rider's egoism as spectacularly as possible.

"In der Reiterei hat sich viel verändert - unglücklicherweise zum Schlechten." Nicht nur - Ursula Bruns (50 Jahre "Pony-Post"/"Freizeit im Sattel", Immenhof-Filme) hat - zumindest in der Freizeitreiterei, die 95 % ausmacht - die Offenstall- bzw. Herdenhaltung in Deutschland publik und damit viele Pferde glücklich gemacht.

Charlotte Dujardin rides like this as well. I'm glad she won Olympics and surpassed Isabelle Werth who uses the "low and deep" method to train her horses. ❤️ Ingrid Klimke is a very good rider as well. She's Reiner's daughter. He also was very soft rider and trainer. He won Olympics I think 6 times. If you want to see another nice dressage then watch for example Charlotte and Valegro. There is also a video with their warming up and it's a really nice proof to see she is really nice to horses she trains. ❤️

Oh, you should have see this horse (Ahlerich) in 1984 at Los Angeles. Perfection. Next day he was clearly tired and not nearly as good as the previous day, but still superb. Perfection.

If you can find a good tape of the first day in 84 it will be well worth your time.

And Klimke was able to do all these Olympic level movements with only a simple snaffle bit and one rein, as he demonstrated at the '84 Olympics, I believe.

Christine was so tiny.

Beautifully handled by the rider.

Lmao that don’t mean shit, good riding can still have the head behind the vertical, so much more other things count. Watch the Spanish Riding School and tell me they’re in front of the vertical.

And extended trots overtrack the front foot placements

Watch Ingrid Klimke or Charlotte Dujardin. They are really nice to horses they train. Charlotte also won Olympics several times. 🙂

@@janiczkahell Charlotte is amazing, her riding is wonderfull. Ingrid Klimke has won pretty much all there is to win in Eventing. She's also around in Dressage, but generally more in Eventing I believe... she's currently riding the amazing stallion Franziskus in grand prix Dressage and got the two of them a place on the german Olympic Team. Honestly, she's one of my favorite professionell equestrians. As the daughter of the great Dr Rainer Klimke, she definately learned from the best - and it shows. We really need to go back to proper training and horsemanship and score accordingly. I can't believe someone like Isabell Werth gets the scores she does... her horses look horrible.

You must be very proud of her

Even though the audience apparently isn't able to clap in rhythm with the music.. XD

Yes. Those days are over.These are the horses and riders who will live in my mind forever

scotch-B Gott Sei dank haben sie es nicht! Der Pferdtyp und vor allem die BEwegungen der Tiere damals sind bei weitem natürlicher als diese Zirkusvorstellungen die man heutzutage Dressur nennt.

scotch-B Leider kann ich da nicht zustimmen. Die heutigen Pferde machen es viel weniger gut geschulten Reitern leicht, schnell 'Erfolge' zu erlangen. Das ist alles.

+Jasemin1 i agree 100%

Ich tue es mir viel leichter wenn ich ein springpferd in Dressur reite, als mein eigenes gekörten Scolari DressurHengst. Es ist vieeeeel leichter wenn das Pferd wenig Bewegung hat. Für mich mindestens.