The Tokyo Olympics is well underway. One of the events currently ongoing is the dressage, an event which was invented to train horses for war but has been an Olympic sport since 1912. Here, we provide ...
A video of dressage Olympian Charlotte Dujardin whipping a horse's legs during a training session has prompted questions over the future of equestrian sports. Animal rights group PETA renewed its call ...
Equestrianism is a sport involving a rider and a horse. Dressage is one of the many disciplines in the equestrian sport, with some other popular sports including racing and jumping. Dressage is played ...
Charlotte Dujardin’s Olympic exit and ban has turned the spotlight on training techniques in the sport Whips, spurs, nosebands, bits and bridles are used by riders around the world, but the line ...
An innovative system to evaluate and train dressage judges will be unveiled at the Global Dressage Forum (GDF) next month (26-27 October). Maarten van der Heijden, sport director for the Dutch ...
The core of dressage riding relies on invisible, harmonious communication between the rider’s aids and the horse’s body.
How much time do you spend working your horse in walk when you’re schooling? Of all the paces, walk is the most overlooked. We walk to warm up and get moving, but we’re keen to transition to trot as ...
THE good wishes of pupils, friends and relations to with Simone Hession and her Reg. Irish Draught Dressage horse "Beezie's Sue" as they travel to Germany for a month's training with world class ...