We created Blue Roof Equestrain 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 committment, 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 Equestrain 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 orientated 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.
