5 years old Valegro & Charlotte Dujardin - Your Horse Live Clinic

"Whether he will be a spécial spécial grand prix horse we just don't know yet" 😁😁 well now we know he was 😄

We travelled to Aachen , to Normandy , to London etc to see Valegro. Since he retired there hasn't been anyone to replace him. How lucky it was that Carl and Charlotte were able to bring the best out in this once in a lifetime horse . He stayed a natural and his spark and liveliness didn't get lost along the way . Fabulous job on a sublime horse.

Just watched his retirement ceremony, so emotional and beautiful. He's come a long long way, Charlotte is absolutely perfect for him. Hope they both have an amazing rest of their lives.

I think this was a perfect storm of a rider and horse in sync. She couldn't have done this without him, and he couldn't have done this without her. Perfect synergy. Also, with the stretching he was emphasizing I noticed it wasn't in the bridle/bit as he stated, but the legs. Every great rider uses legs. I could see her squeezing with her calf muscles and barely shifting her hands. For extended gates she just slumped and let him take charge. Which is how you get that gait. Can't yank their head up and expect extended trots or canter because that fights basic physics.

This was so fun to listen to. "If you know anything about dressage..." But nowadays EVERYONE knows him, even outside the horse world.

Valegro is one of the top dressage horses ever, in my opinion. He is right along with Totilas and every other amazing dressage horse.

"75%... which is a very good score..." Yes, it is, but just wait until he gets a 94%! :D

I was so lucky to be at Your Horse Live on this particular weekend. That canter is unforgettable.

I was there! First time I saw him and fell in love with him. Even back then I knew he would win an Olympic medal 🏅

LOL - prescient ! Thank you Carl, Charlotte, and Valegro ! Bloody brilliant. Thanks for empathetic, brilliant horsemanship, enabling so many of us to cultivate unique talent of each horse in more humane and productive program. My Dutch Warmblood just won 3 blue ribbons at his first show, after I left trainer who told me to dump him, and totally restarted him with your approach With grand sire the heralded Renovo, he's compact and powerful much like Valegro, only had misfortune of multiple bad starts with human's too intimidated by his innate talent, drive, hot & sensitive forward movement, and intelligent manner. Proud and happy each time we stretch on buckle, no longer spook or bolt :)

My horse is a grandson of Glock's Voice and he is great, I just need to improve as a rider, so I can help him show it off. He's a piebald, and people are always surprised by how he can move. Proud and happy for the progress we've made so far and looking forward to get ever better.

Thank you for uploading this! I love Charlotte, Carl & Valegro 😍

Loved watching this, very educational knowing of course as we do know he became a stunning grand prix horse. Quite honestly this is all I look for in a young horse, what Im seeing right here. A gummy ball of a powerhouse that breaths to impress, pretty to look at and built for the job. The natural balance the athleticism and the look at me Im here. Nothing out of kilter, not long in the back, flat in the croup, or short in the neck etc etc, good neck set nice strong back end, etc. Light on his toes, good snappy drive, free, forward. What I call a model horse even if there is very slight issues with build, size etc. You could've quite easily have taught Valegro IMO to be a show jumper. What I mean is the basics of a good horse are there what ever you intend doing with it. I think a horse like "Next Milton" would've made a lovely dressage horse too, very free shoulder and good back end, uphill. Just need to give them time to grow, muscle up and show what they are made of. Such horses you can teach to do anything and they're likely to endure. Many young horses "bred" for dressage today are not showing this all round ability, stability even if they move like ballerinas, this is a worry. I would take a young Valegro type over a grand prix moving young Jazz type any day of the week. I think more needs to be done to concentrate on the basics rather than selecting for extremes of movement and the hype (and income) it generates, because horses are being bred to sell at auctions rather than with any enduring grand prix potential. In this respect yes breeding is less important to a rider, it's the horse before you that counts. It should be in breeding too, absolutely. Breeding for ever more exaggerations leads to disaster. Look what happened to pedigree dogs. Unfortunately money and large stallion yards are leading breeding direction with their factory farms, promoting young flashy stallions over solid proven sires. Meantime snap up those bargains and gems and stop paying over the odds for breeding hype and exaggerated movement at auctions. Yea, it's true. Unfortunately they just aren't breeding this type much anymore, just occasionally you see a good one with the same as the young Valegro's all important natural durchlaessigkeit, cadence, schwung and solid build coming ironically out of the Holstein Verband, and thats because they're not actually breeding for dressage at all. Makes you wonder if breeding for just dressage and just jumping has been such a success after all. Many riders if they even look at the pedigree will amongst other things look for a solid jumping mare in there somewhere and not too far away either. While breeders are doing the exact opposite!?

Wonderful to see this. Thank you for this video!

:D keep it going Charlotte and Valergro!

Thanks to Charlotte, who was able to understand, to feel the horse, and create her own way to ride him. (one can see that in this video, she is riding the horse behind the vertical, all the time. But soon enough she understood this was not the correct way)

Wow!

It took me far too long to realise the guy in the middle was doing the voiceover

Just goes to show you that breeding isn't everything ;)

What a pity the video quality is so poor.