Dressage

Introduction to Dressage Competition

March 5, 2012

Dressage is a beautiful horse sport, sometimes called “Horse Ballet.” It involves horse and rider moving gracefully through a series of tests. The underlying principle of dressage, which literally means “training,” is to develop the horse’s natural abilities such that the horse will respond effortlessly to minimal direction given by the rider. Indeed, much of the success of any dressage rider will come only through a close relationship with the…

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My Experiences Learning Dressage

October 25, 2009

The first time I witnessed dressage was at the yearly event held at a local race course. At the time, I already owned two horses. I had always ridden English, and we did groundwork, and went for trail rides. But what I saw in dressage fascinated and terrified me at the same time. The music, the idea of creating a dance between equine and human being, combined with the formal…

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