Dressage – Page 66 – The Horse Magazine

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

Saddleworld Rising Star: August

July 31st, 2016
Meet the Saddleworld Rising Star for August - twenty-two year old dressage rider, Amy Reilly... Read Article Comments Off

EA Australian Youth Dressage Championships

July 27th, 2016
There’s a lot of talk these days bewailing the decline of youth. They’re all on their devices taking selfies with no life goals but to have their Facebook likes maxed. The EA Australian Youth Dressage Championships highlighted quite the reverse... Read Article Comments Off

Germany’s New Stars of 1991!

July 20th, 2016
Interviews by Chris Hector and Birgit Popp and Photos by Roz Neave and Kit Houghton Perhaps the most amazing thing about the German dressage scene is their ability to produce new and wonderful horses out of no-where. At Aachen this year, three young woman riders – Heike Kemmer, Isabell Werth and Monica Theodorescu -produced some of […] Read Article Comments Off

Jeremy Steinberg – more words of wisdom

July 1st, 2016
Last time we featured an interview with Jeremy it went viral. Dressage fans all over the world reacted (mostly positively) to the American coach’s frank assessment of some of the world’s leading riders and the current state of dressage. Not surprisingly, Rebecca Ashton asked Jeremy for a follow up… Read Article 1 Comment »

Countdown to Rotterdam

June 29th, 2016
All the Australian dressage contenders are over in Europe now, fine tuning their horses for the final selection trial. LYNDAL OATLEY Lyndal Oatley didn’t have the greatest start to her selection campaign, when her horse, Sandro Boy, was not fit to travel to Odense for the first of the qualifiers… How is your road to […] Read Article 1 Comment »

Mary Hanna – Dressage Rider – Part Three

June 27th, 2016
In part three, Mary Hanna continues talking about her riding career, and philosophy of dressage training... Read Article Comments Off