Volume 59 From Our Facebook Pages

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Friends of the Horse: Controversy re Reining. With 135,000 views this video has created strong feelings in so many. There are those who see this as an attack on reining and then there are those that compare this to rollkur. I was sent a link to this video when only a handful had seen it and I paused... frozen almost ... as I truly didn’t know what to do. Struggling for almost a week, to try find what the best approach to make a difference. Spending endless hours wondering what was the best way to proceed. I didn’t just want to inflame the situation any worse then I knew it was going to be, I wanted to somehow figure out how could things be changed. You may have ideas on what the best response is? Is it to just share with as many as we can? What is most important - awareness? Letting people know this is going on? Is the most important thing to voice our opininons, spreading the spotlight on this issue, speak out on behalf of the horse? We’ve lived through the same events with rollkur in

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