More than a few in the audience were surprised when dressage and sport horse breed judge Kristi Wysocki measured the length from a horse’s poll to the end of the muzzle and found it equal to the length from the withers to the elbow, and what’s more, revealed that it relates to the horse’s balance as a dressage horse.
This was one of many insights and tools shared by FEI 3* dressage and USEF ‘R’ DSHB Judge Wysocki at the Evaluating the Sport Horse Form and Function Symposium hosted by the California Dressage Society on Jan. 23-24.
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