Dressage – Page 66 – The Horse Magazine

IAHP November Rider of the Month

November 2nd, 2016
Mary Warren had the weekend of her life at this year’s Australian Dressage Championships. Successfully competing her eight year old Mindarah Park Raphael in the FEI Young Rider CDI-Y classes, she went on to pleasantly shock us all by winning the Saturday night Willinga Park Grand Prix CDI-W Freestyle with a score of 71% on her 13 year old stallion (and Raphael’s Dad) Mindarah Park Ramadan. Because that wasn’t enough pressure for the 18 year old, she also sat her HSC maths exam in-between tests! Read Article Comments Off

Making contact… Stefan Wolff in Australia

With contact being the main point of discussion, it can only mean one thing. We must be at a Stefan Wolff clinic. The young German trainer, a regular to our southern shores for many years now, was back at Lesley-Ann Taylor’s property making sure this important concept was being well understood by Australian riders. Read Article Comments Off

The dressage competitions of the Bundeschampionate…

October 5th, 2016
Thomas Hartwig reports from the Bundeschampionate... Read Article Comments Off

From the Archives: An Eye for a Horse

September 28th, 2016
Here we have three Arab bred horses, all looking to a career in dressage. We asked Malcolm Barns who has had enormous success in the dressage area with Arabian bred horses - first with Rami - then on Christopher - to give his expert opinion. Read Article Comments Off

The Riding Masters – Dr Wolfgang Holzel

September 23rd, 2016
Wolfgang Holzel was a great teacher and theoretician, and a stalwart defender of the Training Scale... Read Article 2 Comments »

THM Exclusive: Carl Hester De-Brief

September 2nd, 2016
Chris Hector caught up with Carl Hester at Rio... Read Article Comments Off

Maree Tomkinson takes a lesson with Susanne Miesner

August 22nd, 2016
Poor Maree Tomkinson, you would have a thought a lesson with a top German professional rider-trainer-author-educator, would be a breeze. A wonderful opportunity to sit looking pretty on some superbly educated beastie with all his buttons firmly in place... but Susanne Miesner is too subtle for that... Read Article Comments Off

RIO: Dressage – The Kur

August 16th, 2016
It's time for the Kür - the individual final - can Valegro makes it to back to back gold? Read Article 11 Comments »

RIO: Dressage Grand Prix – Day Two – good bits and bad bits…

August 12th, 2016
Story Christopher Hector and Photos Rebecca Ashton Day 2, and some of the gloss taken off by the news that Sue Hearn has been found guilty by FEI of not declaring a controlled substance, and fined. Really it is no huge deal, as the penalty indicates, but it does raise a few questions about the competence […] Read Article 17 Comments »

Sitting in on another clinic with Jeremy Steinberg

August 8th, 2016
Last month we featured an interview with Jeremy conducted by Rebecca Ashton, now join Rebecca and sit in on a clinic watching the man do what he does best... Read Article Comments Off