Red ribbon in the tail – what’s that supposed to mean?
If you tie something in the tail of your horse, you do it very consciously. But what is it for? Red is always a signal color and it is the same in equestrian sport.
If you tie something in the tail of your horse, you do it very consciously. But what is it for? Red is always a signal color and it is the same in equestrian sport.
It is one of the most important studs in the world. Many well-known show jumping horses live here or come from Studfarm Zangersheide. At the Open Days in Lanaken, Belgium, visitors can also visit one of the most famous stables in the world.
It is one of the most important and most beautiful horse shows in the Netherlands - say riders and visitors. Show jumping and dressage riders can collect valuable points in their respective FEI World Cups. And visitors get very close.
Anita van Os is one of countless FEI stewards worldwide. After one of her controls in 2019 at the European Dressage Championships in Rotterdam, Charlotte Dujardin was eliminated from the tournament. The silver medal for Great Britain is gone. Both met for the first time in Amsterdam 2020.
Horses are strong. They have a whole horsepower of strength. With "horsepower", however, one immediately thinks about how powerful a car is. And that has to do with the inventor James Watt. He died in 1819, exactly 200 years ago.