Training may only ever represent refinement and perfection of nature. If this nature is mutilated even in the slightest way, it loses its irreplaceable status. Anyone who removes the nobleness from this proud and magnificent creature degrades it - and himself as a human being at the same time.
("In Deference", p.133, Quotation from Kurt Albrecht, "Dogmen der Reitkunst", Olms Publishing House 1996)












































































