That Totilas will start the end of April , it has become rather quiet around him. The tournament organizers in Hagen , near Osnabrück , where rider Matthias Rath, after more than half a year injury will make his comeback with the black stallion , prefers to keep silent. No advertising to the four-legged dressage celebrity , no own press release , only a brief acknowledgment that the rider has Kronberger demand a starting spot . He could cancel at short notice so again , like last year , and thus devalue the whole tournament . German coach Holger Schmezer is optimistic . He has the two observed in a secret course of his entire team in Warendorf , he has twice visited them in training. The impression was positive, he says. If he can show the way, this is the Totilas , we would like to see them all. Yes, if . . . Schmezer prefer places not fixed. I m also excited . The expectations of the twelve year old horse remain large. However, since the noise has placed the charismatic cents to the voices of the skeptics will be heard again . There are advocates of classical riding style that warn of an aberration in the modern dressage for years. At the center of criticism practiced mainly in the Netherlands Rollkur is . Sadly witness is misguided Now the scene frightened again turns luminaries as retired Major Connect to Paul , the unerring doyen of German cavalry . He is 95 years old, formerly member of the legendary cavalry regiment Paderborn 15 , then for 35 years as head of the Westphalian Riding and Driving School Minster one of the nations great- riding instructor . Plug has trained the six -time Olympic Champion Reiner Klimke and today its support mainly successful in eventing daughter Ingrid Klimke and advice . For years he was an international judge . No one knows more about the training of horse and rider , no one is more stable on the basis of the classical principles , no one has a keener eye for horses. I m the last person who has not seen , says Plug about his time in the cavalry. So far he has been silent on the subject Totilas . It is about time that I sign up to speak , he says now . High time . Meanwhile dive to questions that no one wants to provide open, but the whole scene churn : Is Totilas , the spectacular wonders of dancers, with twelve years already consumed ? He goes in the square in pain ? Could he be a victim of elite sport , which makes the spectacle on the health, theatrical footsteps on the natural movements ? For about fifteen years from many professionals beckon weary , when the ancients insist on their proven principles . Now Totilas could be sad to witness for an aberration in the dressage . A major misconduct Stuck sitting in his dimly lit living room in a terraced house in Münster- Handorf , surrounded by documents and photos. The book, which he pulls out again and again , is brownish and worn . It is the 100 year old military regulations from 1912 , shortly H. Dv.12 . This was a mandatory requirement of the German cavalry horse , fed from the experience of generations . Twice it was updated in 1924 and 1937 - at the last revision has already been involved plugging . All the principles of 1937 are still in full, he says. How will he start ? You have to see it all in context , said Plug . He speaks four hours. Then he needs two and a half weeks to revise his words in writing . Every word has to sit , he says. And then he gives his assessment from - businesslike in tone and firm in the matter. The starting point is real riding after H.Dv. 12th Bold in the correct analogy and good movements , writes Plug . Where - is based on understanding the connection between horse and hand the reins over the horses mouth , which is related with the complete posture of the horse - for laymen. The analogy is , simply speaking , be soft , the horse should be interested to wait for the signals of the rider. Insert writes in connection with the analogy of the principle that the nose of the horse should be admitted from convincing reasons to the vertical. He states : Around 1995, they watched growing horses with narrow, sometimes very narrow neck settings. This was a great wrongdoing. Everything Behind - the - vertical - coming hindering the required resonance of the spine as a center of movement and thus the quality of the motion sequence . questionable teaching As the main advocate of the rolled horses necks is the Dutch Sjef Janssen, husband and coach of three-time Olympic champion Anky van Grunsven , who propagated his training method as progressive and managed the German dressage riders - through perseverance in the work and tireless lobbying on all committees - to overtake . Increasingly horses won the races that were set by the Rollkur strong in tension and again showed unnatural , spectacular , many Spectacle instead of consideration : The hyperflexion a horse like Totilas is humiliated © dpa Enlarge spectacle instead of consideration : The hyperflexion a horse like Totilas is humiliated Insert protests against Janssens claim that the German cavalry was obsolete. If by controversial Riding (narrow necks , spanned movements ) , also partially greater successes were achieved by controversial reviews, therefore, the German equestrian training not backward. Was Accordingly shocked the scene when it was announced that Janssen for the period after the Olympic Games was engaged as manager of Rath and Totilas . Also , the Dutchman Edward Gal , the instructor of the stallion is gone for years at Janssen in teaching. As long as the horse keeps the look? At the European Championships in 2009 in Windsor, rose star at the Totilas , have you , Put writes that Rollkur can watch special. Totilas was unnatural with a narrow neck and strained to see elaborate movements have been . One wonders how long it keeps the horse from ? This attitude is not compatible with the health and well-being of the horse . The attitude of the neck is forced , the back is not given away , but tense. The movement is unnatural and cramped . The entire muscle formation is fixed from year to year and stiffened . A horse that could go so tense , get only more difficulty with muscle formation in the back. One has the impression that the horse is to ride only under strong compulsion in such an attitude . This leads usually in the 6th to 8 Age of increasingly greater damage . It can ... cause great stress on the nerves. Insert commented that the competent authorities did not emit unique opinions on this issue. Thus, the judge did not have the chance to slow down the development of consistent judgments . The sentence that forbid the beginnings importance deserved . Insert the belief that Matthias Rath was not able to the acquisition of Totilas and a half years ago , the horse as far weiterzureiten . He is a younger , well- gifted rider, who had already presented correctly anger Unbroken horses with good success . And there is little chance of a horse that was designed several years to convert . By the appearance of Rath and Totilas failed in early February at the stallion show in Vechta Plug sees himself confirmed in his conviction . It was bitter to see how the most significant and unique horse ... presented . Totilas was insubordinate , hopped around and withdrew from the rider. The price of success Plug it did not take to hear a week ago at a conference in Münster, the lecture by Professor Peter Stadler of the University of Veterinary Medicine Hanover, who dealt with the Rollkur . Their modernity he introduced based on a medieval knight image in question , where the horses head was in the same positive attitude as in a photo next to the head of a horse by Anky van Grunsven . As a result of this proven method Stadler described the damage to the suspensory ligament , a tendon in the hindquarters of a horse. This will not necessarily have a lameness result , but leads to grudging work , rigidity, disorders of the lessons , especially the side passages led those horses are reluctant , and come to Rittigkeitsstörungen , which means that a horse s performance from no longer be offers. more articles Totilas : From the wonder horse colt to the problem Totilas : horse industry makes flexible Equestrian Comment: million instead of gold fantasies Beware Rosstäuschern Dressage Championships : The project wonder stallion stuck Now the looks go to Hagen , then the qualifiers for the Olympics and London itself Expectations Totilas remain high, especially those of the two owners : Paul Schockemoehle earned on semen of the stallion , Raths rich stepmother Ann -Kathrin Linsenhoff aspires to ideational profit , the Olympic gold. If at all possible , Totilas will once again have to bring power . National coach Schmezer remains in good spirits . Rath ride energetic than before , which is good , he says. Of course I am completely on the side of Paul Put , he says . Schmezers order , however , the success , and the sport was in its peak price . Much has changed in the sport horse , he says. And the people rejoice . He also rather fancy at the base according to classical principles of . But if we keep everything , says Schmezer , then well Eighth or Ninth and can not keep up .
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