ella1979
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I have you on ignore as from many months ago when we disagreed. I opened your message however and will reply .Gemma and her mum dedicate most of their time in rehabilitating and retiring race horses. Louise has rescued horses for decades.
I assume by saying “rescuing horses from racing” you mean sticking the knackered ones in a paddock at the racing yard for the remainder of their life rather than Louise and Gemma properly and personally retraining the racers to be low level dressage/jumping horses… . I can’t see Louise retraining a racer herself .
The dad and I spoke about racing, the horses they have and his words were “you have to push them as hard as you can and it’s a fine line between pushing them and breaking them”.
Like a lot of horsey stuff professionally, the horses come out often knackered. Which is a huge shame when in racing they are knackered at such a young age. At least dressage horses whilst they endure a lot of rear end mostly wear and tear , they can go on until 20s if maintained at high level .
She drives one hell of a long way to her trainer with her horse weekly , turns up with full glam on and spotless clothes , goes out in Chester full glam on , she probably rides her own dressage horse for an hour 5-6 times a week plus tacking , grooming, unpacking, turning out, rug changes , I don’t know how they currently are for grooms at the home yard for mucking out , whether she mucks out at all but it takes forever keeping a dressage horse exercised fed groomed clean etc etc . with respect I personally don’t believe she spends “most of her time” rescuing horses from racing.
gemma doesn’t retrain racehorses as far as I know, . Plus it’s very difficult to take a knackered racer to the top level of dressage, they aren’t ideally bred to be Grand Prix horses
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I know a couple of people who retrain racers, one is a footballers wag, it’s great to give them another life if they canbut some are too broken and have to be sent to retirement .
it’s like eventing/cross country , it’s very hard on the body for the horses . At least the Owens are flat not jump however.
anyway, back to Leonora
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