Road to the Horse 2017 Competitor - Vicki Wilson 

THANK YOU, VICKI! you are inspirational, and have inspired me to aim for the Olympics show jumping some day!! LOVE YOUR WORK!!!

For a girl Vicky you are a great horse trainer Iv watch you on Netflix training wild horses Kelly had bad luck in the Video but she did well at the show I love watching your video and your other two Sisters But i.ll never take anything your sister cooking look what the poor builder eat dog treats. She end in the river for that but it was a great Video yous girl did it in 91 days to train a horse Great video girls thank you

Two things I don't understand. Firstly, here is a woman who professes and practices horse fair philosophies who is a competition jumper. Given how much peer reviewed research abounds on the deleterious musculo-skeletal effects of long term, extreme jumping on the horse, particularly its front legs, how does she reconcile the research with jumping? Does she read the research and ignore it, does she read the research and not understand it or does she just not read it? Secondly, I saw her doing a "treatment" on a borrowed horse, one that was clearly showing osseous degeneration in the cervical and cranial thoracic spine, commonly called rollkur or C2-C3 hyperflexion (although the understanding of those two terms are far from definitive). Her treatment not once addressed that condition and as she rode the horse she talked extensively and, in general, about correct forward movement whilst the horse was persistently over bent and hollow backed. The reason this annoys me is because again we have a lauded practitioner who, firstly, promotes what looks to me to be pseudoscience and, secondly, appears to have no real understanding or eye for what correct forward movement should be. Truly, we now have two decades of excellent neuroscientific, biomechanical and ethological peer-reviewed equine research out there and yet these practitioners are not only not denounced, but appear to flourish. The evidence-based, horse fair world does not seem to be progressing at all. And frankly, shows like Road to the Horse seem to promote this crap ad nauseum.