Every dressage test, from training level to the Grand Prix starts with the horse and rider entering the ring at the letter A. Whether you are riding in a show at your local club or in the Olympics you enter at the letter A. So when I saw that this week’s Lens-Artists Challenge #126 from…
Tag: Dressage competiton
Naima Moreira Laliberte: One day at a time to Tokyo 2020.
At age 12 Naima saw the dressage in the 2008 Olympics and she was hooked!
Jill Irving: Teammates and Tokyo 2020
We, the athletes, are living our dream.
Megan Lane: Competing for a Ticket to Tokyo 2020.
I recently had the opportunity to speak with Canadian Olympian Megan Lane at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival in Wellington, Florida. Megan represented Canada in dressage at the Rio Olympics in 2016. Canada did not have a team but Megan and Belinda Trussell both qualified to ride.Now Megan has officially declared to be considered for…
Biasini and Me…Puttin’ on the Ritz!
This past weekend I debuted my Intermediare 1 Freestyle. If you follow this blog you will know that my coach Belinda Trussell and I have been working on it for a few months now: choosing music and choreography with the help of Karen Robinson of Applause Dressage. And finally the time arrived to actually go…
Monday Minstrel: This is how you do it!
Video of Charlotte Dujardin’s clever recovery to win.
Mental Performance: Brain,Body,Behavior
It is a challenge not a crisis!
The Championship Series!
I heard the judge say :”Oh dear!”
Silent Sunday
All photos by Joanna Jodko Photography. White Fences Show February 22,23 2019
Lee Tubman: Meet the Judge!
I spoke recently with FEI 4* judge Lee Tubman. I have done lots of interviews with dressage riders and I thought it was time to get a judge’s perspective. Every horse and rider enters the dressage arena at A , halts at X, and salutes the judge who is at C. In the international competitions there…
Monday Minstrel: Dressage Humor
After the splendid dressage at the FEI World Equestrian Games Tryon I thought we could have a bit of humor. The first photo is one that has actually happened to me. It happened when I was a teenager riding in a three way event and in the dressage phase my horse ducked down and grabbed…
Playing the WEG cards close to the chest.
But how will the Briish do against the Germans?