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  "path": "/plus/opinion/dressage-welfare-debate-amsterdam-warm-up-918643",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-18T17:44:44.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.horseandhound.co.uk",
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  "textContent": "The debate about what happens in the warm-up arena extends far beyond any one rider.\n\n**H &H’s dressage editor Oscar Williams considers the challenges facing elite dressage, why similar issues are being raised time after time, and what needs to happen to achieve real and lasting change**\n\nFootage of Charlotte Dujardin warming up in Amsterdam, circulated online in recent weeks, has produced a now-familiar sequence: a short video goes viral, experts comment, outrage builds, and the sport finds itself, once again, performing concern. A recent article in The Times followed that pattern. A World Horse Welfare spokesperson said the video was “a […]",
  "title": "Dressage needs to answer harder questions than just ‘who did what in the warm-up’ to secure its future"
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