Indoor Eventing, and other weirdisms---- So I grew up riding in the 1950s, and started eventing in 1962, so my views are definitely skewed by my upbringing in another era, when most of the coaches were former cavalry officers, and the link to old fashioned eventing was still strong, that it was based on having a mounted courier travel at high speed over whatever he might face to deliver a message. That said, there are three riding sports in the Olympics, dressage, show jumping, and eventing. If someone is keenly interested in dressage, that sport exists. It`s called dressage, no great surprise. Same with show jumping, for those whose main interest is to show jump. Which leaves eventing, originally intended as a PRIMARILY cross country, speed and endurance sport, for riders more interested in those qualities in horse and rider. If they liked one of those other two better, they could ride in one of them. If you liked the all day stayer, the galloping thoroughbred or near bred horse, eventing was custom made for you. And then came the gradual erosion of the cross country, slower speeds, shorter distances, you know the drill. I heard a good description of the new format, Daschund Eventing, short, slow and German. And now indoor eventing----What a crock of idiocy----to use the more polite word. (In the 50s and 60s, as these photos show, there was this bizarre concept called outdoor riding.)
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 20:46:43 +0000
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