Ulla Salzgeber – A Masterclass

November 11th, 2019
Ulla Salzgeber, classically trained, Medal winner, and teacher, and great at expressing those elusive basics. Don't miss the gallery of pix of Ulla and her most successful ride, Rusty, at the end of the article. Read Article 2 Comments »
 

Meet Judy Reynolds, the dressage star from the Emerald Isle…

November 8th, 2019
Judy Reynolds lead the Irish Dressage team to an historic qualification for Tokyo. Rebecca finds out what makes this elegant rider tick... Read Article Comments Off on Meet Judy Reynolds, the dressage star from the Emerald Isle…
 

Hubertus Schmidt: The basics don’t change

October 31st, 2019
Hubertus Schmidt is one of the modern masters of dressage - a rider, trainer, thinker... Read Article Comments Off on Hubertus Schmidt: The basics don’t change
 

Hubertus Schmidt – a picture gallery

October 30th, 2019
Hubertus Schmidt, modern day master, see him and some of the horses who have kept him at the top since the 90's. Pic is Hubertus the first time THM visited him at home. Read Article Comments Off on Hubertus Schmidt – a picture gallery
 

Cathrine Dufour – riding the wave of success

October 18th, 2019
Rebecca Ashton talks to one of the most exciting new talents in the world of dressage… Cathrine and Rebecca Ashton, on the right, who took the pics, and wrote the words… Danish dressage rider Cathrine Dufour continues her incredible success. Most recently she took out the bronze in the Special at the Europeans having brought […] Read Article Comments Off on Cathrine Dufour – riding the wave of success
 

Meet Hanne Lund, breeder of a three-time Young Horse Champion

October 17th, 2019
Meet a three-time World Champion Young Horse now going Grand Prix, and her breeders. Read Article Comments Off on Meet Hanne Lund, breeder of a three-time Young Horse Champion
 

The Classical Tradition – Part 3 – The Masters of the Nineteenth Century

October 16th, 2019
In this third article of the series, we look at the development of the so-called 'classical' principles in the nineteenth century... Read Article 2 Comments »
 

The Classical Tradition, the Training Scale and Dressage Today

October 11th, 2019
This is the final in a four part series of articles that looks at the development of the principles of dressage training from the Greeks, through the Middle Ages and into the present. This article discusses the emergence of the German Training Scale and in a postscript considers the state of the art in 2019... Read Article 11 Comments »
 

Riding as Art: A history of Dressage: Part one – Antiquity

October 9th, 2019
This is the first of a series of articles that looks at the development of the Classical Principles of Dressage. We start with Xenophon and Greek Horsemanship, and find that the popular conception of his teachings and place in dressage is quite wrong… Read Article 7 Comments »
 

The Classical Tradition… Out of the Dark Ages – Riding as Art Part Two:

October 8th, 2019
What did de la Guérinière really say? How did the Old Masters train and how relevant is it today? Christopher Hector continues this series looking at the classical tradition... Read Article 3 Comments »