Dressage trainer and sometime journalist and photographer, Ilse Schwarz was born in Armidale, Australia, but she abandoned her academic career to move to Florida, with her husband, Kenneth Braddick, photographer and webmaster (www.equestrian-news.com)

Key dates:

1998      Move to USA, leave academia and start working 100% in dressage industry

2001      Establish Ilse Schwarz Dressage in Wellington, Fl

2007      First trained with Steffen Peters

2010      First 70% at Grand Prix, on a horse I bred and trained myself

2011      Ride for team Australia in Nations Cup, Wellington, CDI 3*