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First round Burg-Pokal: What a class!

December 19th, 2019
Round one of the most prestigious competition for young Small Tour horses in the world, the Burg-Pokal, and Christopher Hector is ringside to catch the action... Read Article Comments Off

Breeding at the Burg-Pokal 2019

The young horses in this year's Nürnberger Burg-Pokal, see just how specialised dressage breeding has become in the past ten or fifteen years. Right now the lesson is, dressage breeds dressage... Read Article Comments Off

WBFSH Eventing Sires 2019

December 6th, 2019
The World Breeding Federation rankings of Eventing Sires has been released. Gemma Alexander and Christopher Hector analyse the state of play... Read Article Comments Off

WBFSH Jumping Sires 2019

December 2nd, 2019
It's that time of the year again, when the World Breeding Federation releases the latest sires rankings - Gemma Alexander and Christopher Hector analyse the latest jumping standings... Read Article 1 Comment »

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 »

Jan Pedersen – the hands on President

October 1st, 2019
Jan Pedersen has been the president of the World Breeding Federation for Sport Horses for 20 years. In this wide-ranging interview with Christopher Hector, he looks at the challenges facing sport horse breeders today... Read Article 1 Comment »

Simone Pearce – making it, with a smile!

September 14th, 2019
Simone Pearce, she's the Aussie rider who is riding some of Germany's most exciting dressage stallions... Read Article 2 Comments »

Carl Hester: How to make a Valegro

September 9th, 2019
Carl Hester gives us the recipe - now you can make your own Valegro. An exclusive interview with Christopher Hector, he says it is his best story yet... Read Article 6 Comments »

Aachen and Ermelo – the Breeding De-Brief

August 15th, 2019
by Christopher Hector Those two great pillars of Dutch dressage breeding, Jazz and Ferro, are in the twilight of their breeding careers – a polite way of saying they are dead. But they still feature when the wonderful roster of competition horses at this year’s Aachen CHIO is distilled down to the top fifteen who […] Read Article 2 Comments »

Great win for Andreas Helgstrand

August 4th, 2019
Story Christopher Hector Photos Kenneth Braddick dressage-news.com Jovian and Andreas Helgstrand – winners! Andreas Helgstrand and Jovian (Apache / Tango) win the Five Year Old Championship at Ermelo. Aha, did I hear you say, just what I expected, a PR exercise for Helgstrand dressage… Well actually no, it was victory for an exceptional horse and some […] Read Article 1 Comment »