Shelby Dennis
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575 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 4 Jun
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And also just having the opportunity to, yeah, like you said, see that things are possible.
And then another thing is just having it be more financially accessible 'cause that's one of the big things at a lot of the mainstream show venues is the expense of it all is so high that it makes it so that people who don't come from money have a very difficult time getting to participate.
So having something be more financially viable, I think, is huge for increasing accessibility and allowing more people to participate.
Yeah, that's really awesome.
Do you have any idea of when you'll be able to start offering shows?
Like is this something that's a few years out or what are you what sort of timeline are you looking at?
Oh, absolutely.
I think that'll I think it will already be changing things just by making it possible 'cause it's showing people that a different way is possible.
Whereas there's this belief that the rules in other disciplines and other organizations are such because that is the only possibility, that it's not
You you you can't get to a certain level without doing those things.
So I think showing people that it is possible is gonna be a huge part of the shift.
Absolutely.
And I think that the other thing is that there is very little evidence or like there currently really is no evidence that it's inherently less safe to ride bitless because there's another study that compared safety between the two and it found that there is no difference in risk.
writing bit list.
And that's one of the things that um at when I went to that panel and friends, the FEI Director of Solidarity, his whole argument was that it's inherently less safe.
And what he said about
upper level riders being out of control.
One, that begs the question, why are these riders at the top levels if they cannot be trusted to make safe decisions for themselves and their horses?
Um
And the other thing that I've always found weird too is there tends to be more policing of softer equipment than there is of the harshness that can be used.
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