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Story by Shannan Makauskas Photos by Alex Makauskas<\/h3>\n

There comes a time in the young rider\u2019s life when they contemplate going to university or pursuing a life long dream of being a horse trainer. For 21 year old dressage rider, Jayden Brown, the choice was easy: \u201cIt\u2019s the only thing I can get people to pay me for,\u201d he laughs.<\/p>\n

But all jokes aside, Jayden has rapidly evolved from young rider to professional trainer. So how did he make the transition? I went to Jayden\u2019s property on the outskirts of Brisbane in Queensland to find out.<\/p>\n

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Starting Out<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jayden began riding by chance at six years of age: \u201cWe inherited a feral old horse from our neighbour that became the family horse we all learnt to ride on.\u201d<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t long until Jayden had a pony of his own: \u201cHe was a fat little Palomino called Willow. He was kind of like the pony in Brookfield that every family had owned. I remember he would take off for anyone taller than a kid, but for kids he was perfect. I did all the pony club gymkhanas and the Brookfield show was sort of my yearly hacking experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

At 12 years of age Jayden purchased his first horse, the five year old gelding Fairbanks Gangster. He remembers their first competition together: \u201cIt was a pony club combined training and I think we got 36% in the walk trot.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThen it was the only clear showjumping round we ever did. We came second but I came out of the arena crying and the judges told me he was too big for me and too much horse. Years later everyone was telling me to sell him because he was too small.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Choosing a Path<\/strong><\/p>\n

After dabbling in every discipline, from Palomino classes to eventing, Jayden opted to focus on Dressage: \u201cIt wasn\u2019t really until Fairbanks Gangster refused to go in the water that I waltzed into dressage. I think I was sick of coming last. The one eventing competition I finished was at the State Championships but then we were a minute too slow.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019m always surprised to find, when I ask a rider why they stick with a certain discipline, it provokes several minutes of deep thought and unresolved answers. It seems we don\u2019t always know why we struggle through such a challenging and unrecognised sport, we just do it!<\/p>\n

This was the case with Jayden but he concludes: \u201cIt\u2019s just for the challenge and because you\u2019re never perfect. In dressage you\u2019ve always got to keep getting better or someone else will beat you.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Finding a Mentor<\/strong><\/p>\n

When Fairbanks Gangster started elementary Jayden began lessons with Jenny Gherke, Grand Prix rider and member of the Australian Development Squad. He said of their early lessons together: \u201cFor the first month I didn\u2019t leave walk. Jenny would say, \u2018Walk. Halt. No, you\u2019re pulling. Walk. Halt. No, you\u2019re pulling.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI had to do laps of the arena and stop at every single post until I could halt. Because I would pull my reins up to my ears to stop and he had one of those bungy rope necks that would just invert into his chest. She said, \u2018I figured you would stick with it. You were either going to get better or you were going to leave\u2019. So that\u2019s how Jenny and I got started.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jayden recognises Jenny as the biggest influence on his dressage career: \u201cShe started as a coach and is now a mentor and a friend.\u201d<\/p>\n

The format of their lessons has progressed over the years: \u201cWe don\u2019t do the set 45 minute lesson anymore. We just kind of ride together and help each other out and that really works.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a sit on each other\u2019s horses a couple of times a week and fiddle around. Usually we just back up what we were both thinking anyway but having a different rider to challenge the horse in a different way helps to bump them along a bit. We don\u2019t just end up riding circles for months and wondering why we\u2019re not getting any better.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Learning the Craft<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the school holidays Jayden worked at Jenny\u2019s equestrian center: \u201cI\u2019d strap for her and help her get the horses ready. I would warm them up and she\u2019d help me on lots of different horses.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe had an elementary horse and he was the first one I learnt how to stop properly on. She put him on the lunge and took the reins off. Then she\u2019d put him into canter and say, \u2018I\u2019m just going to stand here until you figure out how to stop him without pulling.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI would hold onto the little monkey strap and just by nature I wanted to pull. Obviously nothing happened until I figured out how to use my seat. He was well trained and as soon as I did it properly he just went canter, walk. And I said, \u2018Oh so that\u2019s what I\u2019ve got to do. No more pulling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over six years Jayden and Fairbanks Gangster won three National Young Rider Championships and several State Championships, eventually progressing to FEI level before being sold. The sale led Jayden to his first training stint in Germany with former Olympian, Leonie Bramall: \u201cI first met Leonie when I went to Germany after grade 12 to be a working student.\u00a0 Jenny had previously trained with Leonie in Germany and she helped me to organise six weeks work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since then Jayden has gone to Leonie\u2019s to train three times: \u201cThinking back on each of my trips, my role in the stable has been very different each time.\u00a0\u00a0I started as the typical working pupil. I worked hard to get horses ready, warming them up for Leonie or the Bereiter Martin Sworboda. Then in the afternoon I would ride one or two young horses with help from Leonie.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there\u2019s one thing Leonie is really good at, it’s multi-tasking.\u00a0 She can be riding a really difficult horse herself but still find the words to really assist everyone else who is riding in the arena.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first time I went I got really homesick and I was just like I want to come home, change my flight. It\u2019s difficult not having a car or knowing where anything is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jayden recounts his trips to the supermarket: \u201cI learnt German in school but they\u2019d say everything so quickly and I couldn\u2019t understand the numbers. So I\u2019d hand them a note and just keep going until they looked like they didn\u2019t want anymore. I\u2019d end up with $10 worth of 20 cent pieces in my wallet.\u201d<\/p>\n

During his time in Germany Jayden observed differences in the horse business: \u201cIt\u2019s a lot more established and professional. Everything is on a much bigger scale. There are so many more horses.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of the horses are professionally trained and owning a dressage horse over there is kind of like owning a race horse here. It\u2019s the prestige of owning a good horse. One of Leonie\u2019s owners would only visit his horse once a year.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Jayden came back to Australia he spent time working in the stable of Australia\u2019s leading Grand Prix Rider, Brett Parbery. During his time there he came across a \u2018slightly wild\u2019 gelding training at novice level, Widelo (Weltmeyer\/Rocadero):<\/p>\n

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\u201cAt first he was a little bit naughty but I started riding him and ended up buying him. On paper you probably would have turned and run in the other direction. Because he was seven and just struggled to put together walk, trot and canter without having some kind of meltdown.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI bought him with the plan to train him to medium and then sell him and make some money to buy a better horse. Someone offered me pretty good money just after I bought him and at the time I was 18 and I thought oh I could make all this money after only three months.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I ended up saying no and when I got back to Queensland I rode in a clinic with Stefan Wolff. He said, \u2018Have you done changes with this horse yet?\u2019 And I said, \u2018No\u2019. He said, \u2018We\u2019ll give it a go\u2019. We went across and did it. Widelo just said okay. I just gave the technically correct aid and he jumped straight onto the other leg.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was back here training with Jenny we didn\u2019t kind of hang around at novice for the sake of doing six months of novice. We did everything in the right order and didn\u2019t skip anything but as soon as we could tick off one box we moved onto the next.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut once we got to Prix St George we put the hand break on a little bit so we could catch up. He was still like a novice horse that could do all the Prix St George movements. He didn\u2019t have a lot of strength so we let his body catch up.\u201d<\/p>\n

After eight months work the pair were competing Prix St George. In 2008 they won all three CDI-Y Young Rider World Cup qualifiers and were off to Frankfurt for the Young Rider Championships. Jayden says of the experience: \u201cEverything just fell into place.\u201dThe pair set out on the 40 hour trip from Sydney to Hanover: \u201cWe didn\u2019t have to do any quarantine time going over because they already have every disease. We just gave him a few days off and then light exercise but he did his first competition 10 days after he arrived.\u201d<\/p>\n

The competition was a learning experience: \u201cThere were some pretty spectacular horses in it but Jenny and I didn\u2019t care how I placed. Leonie thought we had this idea that we were going to go and win everything. But we didn\u2019t care we were just happy to be there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first test was a complete disaster and the second test was a bit of a disaster as well. Then in the freestyle he was really good and we ended up getting 70% in the \u2018B\u2019 Final.\u201d<\/p>\n

This gave Jayden 1st<\/sup> place in the B group and would have placed him 4th<\/sup> in the A group: \u201cWe were pretty happy with that because he was just the little Australian horse.\u201d<\/p>\n

Being in the warm-up arena at an International show can be a daunting experience: \u201cThere\u2019s showjumping, driving and everything at the same competition.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIsabell Werth was riding around while I was doing a canter pirouette and she halted right as I was coming out. I had to slam on the brakes and that was like a second before we went in. So Widelo was a bit traumatised! You wouldn\u2019t dare tell Isabell to get out of your way though so I just did a little detour and went in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jayden met Australia\u2019s International dressage star, Hayley Beresford, at the show: \u201cShe was really cool and really friendly. When I was walking through all the crowds of people I heard her call out, \u2018Hey Australia!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe gave me some good advice because at the time I was deciding whether I\u2019d stay in Germany or not. She just said, \u2018Why not? What\u2019s the worst that\u2019s going to happen?\u201d<\/p>\n

And it ended up being good that I stayed. Then I was able to sell Widelo for a lot of money and that wouldn\u2019t have happened if I came back. I probably would have sold him for good money here but it was like getting the same value only in euros.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt made buying a new horse easier and I needed the money to stay there. I was just living off my savings. The week I got paid for Widelo I think I had five and a half euro in my bank account. I was thinking, \u2018Yeah I might have to call home and borrow some money!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

This allowed Jayden to extend his stay in Germany:\u00a0\u201cI was riding a lot of horses mostly from five year olds through to Advanced. Some were very talented and some of them not so talented but the goal was always the same. To move the horses onwards in their training and teach them to work with what they’ve got, even the unbelievably talented horses have to learn how to work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jayden identifies the winning formula at Leonie\u2019s barn:\u00a0\u201cOne thing that stands out is that it’s really a team effort.\u00a0 There isn’t anyone who\u2019s just a rider and someone who\u2019s just a groom.\u00a0 At the end of the day, it’s everyone’s responsibility to make sure each horse is healthy and cared for.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI would normally finish riding my horses at about 2.30pm and would take a very quick coffee break. Then I would help the girls out with feeding and doing a quick second clean of the stables.\u201d<\/p>\n

The competition season is very busy: \u201cOur busiest week included a Monday and Tuesday competition,\u00a0Thursday and Friday at another, Saturday one more and finally another show on Sunday. We would regularly enter six or seven horses in the novice class with Leonie, her Bereiter and me all in the one class.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Finding the right barn enabled Jayden to make the most of his time there:\u00a0\u201cLeonie is really quite unique as a trainer in Germany. Her attention to detail and ability to go outside of the square to convey a particular message is what makes her really good.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything within her training is about making the horses supple through their whole bodies, not just their necks and not just making their legs flap around in the air.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think it comes back to the idea that if you continually ride to have complete control of the horse, then you’re creating a robot. What we want is a horse that really dances through their work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jayden learnt to refine his training of the young horses: \u201cIt was more making them work, not harder, but making the work that we did mean more. Like when I was here I would cruise around for 40 minutes rather than working them properly for 20 minutes and then walking or doing other stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the three year olds, rather than getting them long and deep, it was really getting them a little bit up but out into the contact. So they were learning to step into the bridle and use their bodies better from the beginning. They also didn\u2019t buck as much when their heads were up!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce their going into the bridle then we can put them deeper and push them back up. But we didn\u2019t hold them in a competition frame they were still very long. We\u2019d also take them outside to do cavalettis and trot pole work. We had a 40 by 60 outdoor so we\u2019d just gallop around the outside of it to get them going and teach them to work a bit more.\u201d<\/p>\n

At Leonie\u2019s barn the young horses were taken regularly to competitions: \u201cIt was like going on a big excursion with a bus full of kids. But they had to learn that when they\u2019re out they\u2019ve got to work, rather than going to a competition and being allowed to look or get intimidated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not all the horses were spectacular in Germany: \u201cThere were some really good horses and then there were some really average ones. I think a lot of people think they\u2019re all brilliant and amazing over there but there were plenty of average horses and average riders. In general the standard is much higher but still, not everyone\u2019s perfect over there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jayden reflects on the benefits of training in Germany: \u201cI think it\u2019s important but I don\u2019t think you have to go there to be a good rider. I think if you want to be the best rider you can be it\u2019s a good idea.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s amazing just to see it but at the same time some people aren\u2019t suited to going over there, like if they get told their not very good and they have a break down. You\u2019ve got to be prepared to be told you\u2019re crap and not cry about it because sooner or later someone will tell you. Unless you\u2019re paying lots of money to be there they\u2019ll tell you what they think.\u201d<\/p>\n

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While working at Leonie\u2019s Jayden found his next Dressage star, the six year old Westphalian gelding Furst Friedrich (F\u00fcrst Piccolo\/Apart<\/em>): \u201cI was really lucky to be able to buy him. He only arrived at Leonie’s stable because his owner was in the final stages of planning her wedding.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he arrived in the barn I actually described him to Jenny as a horse who trots like a pony and canters like a racehorse. But for some reason I still liked him.\u00a0 He was a really ‘go’ type of horse who was used to going on the walker for an hour each day before riding.”<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce I was able to teach him to use his energy positively, he really started to change into the horse I was looking for.\u00a0\u00a0Leonie and I really tested him out before asking if the owners would sell him, just to make sure he was the horse for me.”<\/p>\n

Jayden favours trainability over spectacular movement: \u201cAfter selling Widelo I had the money to spend on a good horse. But I also had to be realistic about\u00a0not overpaying for what I was getting.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I went for a horse with manageable paces rather than getting a horse with huge movement but a completely ineffective\u00a0way of using its body. The main attraction to Freddy was\u00a0his trainability and the fact that I could really work and change the horse in a positive way.\u201d<\/p>\n

This trainability will see them advance quickly up the levels: \u201cHe\u2019s been a little bit the same as Widelo in that respect. He was novice when he arrived at Leonie\u2019s but he\u2019s not as established at Prix St George as Widelo was by now. I\u2019ve been riding him for about ten months and I could probably scrape him through the Prix St George but he needs a bit more condition and obedience.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Starting a Business<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jayden took his first horse for training before he went to Germany, but he had to prove himself before making it a profitable business: \u201cWhen I was in year 12 I got a horse called Aubaine Cossack. But I rode him for free just to have a second horse to ride. It was after working at Brett\u2019s that I took horses.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAt first most of it was just going out and riding a horse at a client\u2019s place three or four times a week. But most of the horses were pretty feral. In the beginning there were lots of horses that were just a lot of hard work and wondering if they would ever learn to put their head down. That was the start of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGenerally the only good horses I got to ride were the ones I owned so I\u2019d always ride them at the beginning of the day to get my motivation up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since then Jayden has established a barn of 12 horses with six of them in full work: \u201cGenerally I don\u2019t take more than eight to train just because I don\u2019t have the space. I like to have somewhere I can lock them when they\u2019re going crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m riding six at the moment and sometimes after the third horse I\u2019m exhausted but usually I try and ride four in the morning and then I\u2019ll go ride one of the horses off the property and come back and do the last two here. Or sometimes I ride a horse off the property and teach a lesson so it depends on how much I\u2019ve got to do in the afternoon. I try to get most of it done in the morning.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re interested in training horses, be prepared to do the paperwork: \u201cIt\u2019s not just the riding part of things that makes it a business it\u2019s also all the bookwork and making sure I\u2019ve sent my GST in on time. It\u2019s keeping all that side of things in order.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to sit down and fill out invoices but you can get into trouble if you don\u2019t manage the business side of it properly. Then you can\u2019t tell if you\u2019re making money or not. You don\u2019t want to end up riding ten horses a day and not making a profit because then you just ware yourself out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jayden talks about the challenges he faced starting out: \u201cA lot of the young riders talk about getting horses and clients\u2019 horses but you\u2019ve just got to work hard until people offer you horses. Like most of the horses I trained in the beginning weren\u2019t, I mean, I wouldn\u2019t show them to anyone\u201d, he laughs.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also an unreliable business: \u201cThere are a few young horses that may end up coming here that are quite good and I\u2019ll probably train and campaign them but you sort of have to wait until they actually arrive. People call up and say I\u2019ve got this horse that\u2019s really good and I\u2019m thinking about selling it but I might just end up training it. Or they call you up and tentatively book it in but then they don\u2019t end up following through. So you just wait and see if they arrive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jayden reflects on young riders considering a career in the equine industry: \u201cMost people finish school and take a year off to ride and end up taking a year off to party. They\u2019re too hung over to ride they\u2019re horses\u201d, he laughs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere seems to always be people out there who think someone else will come along and buy them the fancy horses and help them out. But you\u2019ve kind of got to have your own and be able to do it without help and make your own good horses. Then if someone helps you out it\u2019s a bonus.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think you can rely on someone else to help you. It just doesn\u2019t happen, especially not in the beginning. You can look at people like Judy Dierks and Matthew Dowsley, who\u2019ve been doing it for I don\u2019t know 30 years or whatever, after that sort of time you can expect it. But at the beginning you\u2019ve just got to be prepared to ride challenging horses.\u201d<\/p>\n

Seeing a horse progress in their training is what keeps Jayden chipping away every day: \u201cJust seeing improvement and taking a horse who can\u2019t do anything and then a few months later you can control it. Getting a horse that\u2019s done nothing and just having it all go right.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously that doesn\u2019t happen all the time but when it does go right its fun and you can just cruise along. I think people sort of think they just come out looking like they do at a competition but they don\u2019t think about the months of not being able to keep them on the track or being able to get around the arena without spooking.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Routine<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you want to become a horse trainer you may want to consider keeping-up with a schedule such as Jayden\u2019s: \u201cDuring summer I usually start around five in the morning and ride until ten. So I usually get four done and then stop until about two or three in the afternoon.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThen I get everything ready for feeding and bring all the horses in and then ride whatever\u2019s left. But in winter I sort of start around 6.30am and just go through until I\u2019ve finished all the horses, then feed up and come inside and collapse on the couch.\u201d<\/p>\n

Saddling and washing the horses is also part of the job for Jayden: \u201cUnless I had someone permanent I would rather do it myself. Because it would be harder teaching people how everything gets done everytime someone leaves. So unless I was going to have someone that was full time I wouldn\u2019t do it. I mean that would be nice but it costs too much money.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watching Jayden ride the six year old Hanoverian mare, Dallas (Dacaprio\/Cashman) owned by Kate Wilson, he demonstrates how his training has changed since being in Germany: \u201cI don\u2019t waste as much time and I try to make everything count. I won\u2019t spend as much time just cantering a circle and not adjusting something. I think before I would have just cruised around a bit more and then done a movement and then cruised around again.\u201d<\/p>\n

These \u2018adjustments\u2019 appear to take place every ten metres, in every corner and before every movement. Jayden says: \u201cYes but then it\u2019s giving them the opportunity every now and then to cruise along. You can\u2019t do it like that all the time or they explode.\u201d<\/p>\n

This perspective is reflected in his more electric mount, Freddy: \u201cHe\u2019s big and he\u2019s got a short body in comparison to his legs and his neck. So he just has to tighten through his back a little and then he goes into that little thoroughbred canter. So we do lots of travers and renvers, all the laterals to keep him supple.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the moment Jayden prefers riding to coaching: \u201cI\u2019m in the process of finishing my instructors but I help out a few people just in the area with their horses. Once I\u2019ve done all my coaching stuff I might get into the teaching side a bit more. It mostly depends on time. Later on I\u2019ll probably not want to ride so many horses and do more coaching. For now the riding is easier, the horses don\u2019t complain or talk back,\u201d he laughs.<\/p>\n

Jayden has few regrets about his choice of career: \u201cSome days I think, when it\u2019s already 38 degrees at 7.30 in the morning, \u2018Oh I\u2019m an idiot.\u2019 But at the same time when it\u2019s pouring with rain and I don\u2019t have to go outside I think it\u2019s kind of cool. It has its ups and downs. I think it\u2019s like any job, you enjoy it most of the time and the good outweighs the bad so it\u2019s worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Looking to the Future<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jayden has big plans for his latest mount, Furst Friedrich: \u201cHopefully I\u2019ll take him to the Sydney CDI but we\u2019ve only got two competitions to qualify and that might happen and it might not.\u201d<\/p>\n

His focus is on the Prix St George Challenge at the National Championships: \u201cAfter Sydney I\u2019ll start him at Prix St George then I\u2019ll see how it goes. I have to get two scores over 60 in advanced and then apply for an upgrade to 80 points. That\u2019s what we did with Widelo and that worked well enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jayden hopes to take Furst Friedrich back to Germany one day: \u201cBut I\u2019ll wait until he\u2019s Grand Prix and hopefully I\u2019ll have someone else to pay for it. Like if we\u2019re training to get on a team or something.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I wanted to sell him then I\u2019d probably try and go back just because I\u2019d probably get more money for a horse like that over there. But I don\u2019t plan to sell him anytime soon. If it did all go to plan and he got on a team or something I\u2019d probably sell him after that just because I think the money would be too ridiculous not to.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThen I\u2019d start again buying two young ones. So it\u2019s all about trying to achieve the goals and then keeping the business afloat. Because if I was to keep him until he was retired I\u2019d have nothing to go onto. I\u2019ve got to focus on getting him to grand prix and then see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

To finish I ask Jayden the age old question; what does he want to achieve in Dressage? \u201cI just want to compete a horse Internationally at Grand Prix. I think even if you\u2019ve got the best horse in the world you still need a bit of luck to get on an Olympic team because it can fall apart. You\u2019ve just got to hope everything falls into place.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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