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A Warm up session with Ingrid Klimke

August 27th, 2021
“I always make sure I do a proper warm up. I make sure my horses are really properly stretching and giving their back, and coming from behind. When you trot over the cavalletti, the hind end is active, they are over the back and soft and swinging.” It is very noticeable that your horses are […] Read Article Comments Off

The great trainers: Otto Lörke – the man who changed the shape of dressage forever…

August 26th, 2021
Introducing Otto Lörke perhaps the most influential dressage teacher / trainer of the twentieth century through his pupils and the pupils of his pupils... Read Article Comments Off

Third Schockemöhle / Helgstrand Online Foal Auction

Another feast of superb foals - dressage and showjumping - selected by Paul Schockemöhle and Andreas Helgstrand - is ready for your inspection... Read Article Comments Off

Volker Steinkraus – carrying on the Butts’ legacy

August 24th, 2021
It was a victory for Volker Steinkraus in the great mare show at Verden with his half-blood mare - but it was also a triumph for one of the first, and most successful, breeders of eventers, Friedrich Butt... Read Article 1 Comment »

“Reine Freude” (pure joy) in Verden

The Herwart von der Decken show is THE show for the sporthorse connaisseur - an amazing gathering of the very best Hanoverian mares... Read Article Comments Off

Hubertus Schmidt – Tip from the Top

August 21st, 2021
Chris Hector talks with German Riding Master, Hubertus Schmidt: When you started riding this morning, you had his nose just behind the vertical, and there are people who would say, oh look rolkur, but it is nothing like rolkur… “It’s totally different. That was at the very beginning, and I made the horse very long […] Read Article Comments Off

The first great American showjumping teacher: Gordon Wright

August 18th, 2021
In many ways he was the first of the great American professional jumping coaches… the rodeo cowboy who turned jumper… or was he? This article looks at another of the great American jumping coaches, Gordon Wright Read Article Comments Off