VISION
We created Blue Roof Equestrian
Center for one reason: the well being of your horse.
We believe in Dressage For The
Horse, not piaffing for the well-appointed crowd.
Dressage can improve the
physical and mental health of every single horse, regardless of
breed. Each of our boarders is committed to improving their
relationship with their horse with regular instruction from our
trainer, Dawn
Fisher, who helps raise that partnership to the next level of
commitment, fitness and happiness.
Everything we do here, from
nutrition and turnout to tack and footing, is done in harmony with
our commitment to putting the physical and mental well being of your
horse above all.
We are an educational community
of horse lovers under one (new) roof.
Our guiding ethical principles,
based on The Nine Ethcial Principles of
the True Horseman, issued by the German Equestrian
Federation:
- Anyone involved with the
horse takes over responsibility for the living creature with whom
he or she is entrusted.
- The horse must be kept in a
way that is in keeping with its natural requirements.
- Highest significance is to be
accorded to the physical as well as the psychological health of
the horse, regardless of the purposed for which it is used.
- The human being is to respect
every horse equally, regardless of its breed, age, sex as well as
its use in breeding, leisure or sport.
- Knowledge concerning the
history of the horse, its needs as well as how to handle it are
historic-cultural assets. These are to be cherished and
safeguarded and also passed on to subsequent generations.
- Contact and dealing with the
horse are of valuable significance in the development of a human
being's personality, in particular with regard to young
people. This significance is always to be respected and
promoted.
- The human being who
participated in sport together with the horse has to subject
himself as well as the horse with which he is entrusted to
training. The aim of all training is to achieve optimum harmony
between human being and horse.
- The use of the horse in
high-performance sport as well as in general riding, driving and
vaulting must be oriented according to the horse's nature,
ability, as well as willingness to perform. Influencing the
horse's ability to perform by means of medication or other means
not suitable for horses is to be categorically rejected and
punished
- The responsibility of the
human being for the horse with which he is entrusted also extends
to and includes the end of the horse's life. The human being is
always to assume this responsibility and implement it in the best
interest of the horse.
