Young Grand Prix horses – breath of fresh air…
Join us at Frankfurt for a great class for young Grand Prix dressage horses... Read Article 1 Comment »
Month: December 2017
Join us at Frankfurt for a great class for young Grand Prix dressage horses... Read Article 1 Comment »
Dressage delights at the Nürnberger Burg-Pokal
It's the greatest class for emerging FEI dressage horses in the world - the Nürnberger Burg-Pokal, exclusive report and photos Read Article 8 Comments »
George Morris – It’s simple, it’s just not easy
George Morris held his annual clinic at Vicki Roycroft's stables with a lineup of class riders - once again, the Master trainer was in fine form... Read Article 1 Comment »
PARA EQUESTRIAN @ DF 2017
Merriyn Hamilton-Smith reports from the first of the WEG Para Selection Trials. Read Article Comments Off on PARA EQUESTRIAN @ DF 2017
Riding in the third dimension with Leonie Bramall
It’s very odd. Australia currently doesn’t have a dressage coach, and yet there are a number of very talented, experienced trainers, who have competed successfully themselves and produced successful students, that EA continues to ignore and who end up teaching those who are prepared to go to the expense and work of organising the clinics. Why […] Read Article Comments Off on Riding in the third dimension with Leonie Bramall
WILLIAM C STEINKRAUS – writes his own OBITUARY
A great man, Bill Steinkraus, has died, but not before he wrote his own obituary... Read Article 2 Comments »
Rafael Soto Andrade – passing on the knowledge, keeping the link alive
It really is one of the great pleasures in life to sit and watch a gifted trainer work with enthusiastic and dedicated and TALENTED young riders. Thus it was at Victoria’s Jesmond Dene, with visiting trainer, Rafael Soto and two of Australia’s rising dressage stars, Alexis Hellyer and Elliot Patterson. Rafael and Invasor at home […] Read Article Comments Off on Rafael Soto Andrade – passing on the knowledge, keeping the link alive
William Steinkraus 1925 – 2017
Bill Steinkraus was many things, rider, thinker, poet, musician, writer, but for the equestrian world his most enduring legacy was proof that effective riding was good riding, classical, civilised riding. Jumping, he told me the first time we met, back in the early 80’s, is how you ride the track, the jumps themselves will take […] Read Article 1 Comment »
The Thoroughbreds of Oldenburg
The following information is from Das Oldenburger Sportpferd by Roland Ramsauer, published in 1978. I am indebted to Katrin Burger of the Oldenburg Verband for the translation – Christopher Hector Adonis xx: (Magnat xx, M. Aster xx by Oleander xx – Wallenstein xx. Born 1952) Description: Medium sized, fine stallion with good face, […] Read Article Comments Off on The Thoroughbreds of Oldenburg
Roland Ramsauer and the Oldenburg Horse
Roland Ramsauer is THE authority on the Oldenburg Breed, in this exclusive interview he talks about the past, and future, of Sporthorse breeding in Germany... Read Article Comments Off on Roland Ramsauer and the Oldenburg Horse