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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-24T16:41:19.000Z",
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  "textContent": "New research has shown promise around noseband tightness in dressage – but that stress behaviour increases with competition level and judges are not penalising it. In a study, published in Animals, Czech researchers aimed to assess whether noseband tightness at national competitions would influence how horses “express stress”. But when nearly all of the more […]",
  "title": "Dressage horses’ stress behaviours increase with competition levels – but scores unaffected"
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