Being out there competing — for ambition and for fun — at last!
Cobham is always a happy venue. For many the opportunity to be out competing again was enough, but the wide range of riders and horses made their winter’s training efforts count, too.
Out and About Dressage
in the South
The online magazine for dressage riders and enthusiasts
Out and About Dressage
in the South
The online magazine for dressage riders and enthusiasts
Out and About Dressage
in the South
The online magazine for dressage riders and enthusiasts
Dressage show reports
Experience and determination team up for success
This show report starts with young riders on schoolmasters making a big impact on the results, talks of longer journeys to a sense of achievement — and concludes with a special young schoolmaster in the making.
Nice and easy brings freestyle success in last-minute bids to qualify
Doable choreography to supportive music produced the best results for riders up and down the levels. Otherwise, make it look easy, even when it’s not!
Affiliated dressage results from Kent, Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire
Dressage results: Fairoak Grange, Hants, 9 April 2021
Image: Charlotte Dicker moves Timolin x Breitling six-year-old Catherston Timeless up two notches to score 66.67% and 70% in debut medium and advanced medium qualifiers
Dressage results: Speedgate, 7 January 2021
Image: Amy Tate and eventer Grantstown Class Act, winners of the Prelim 19 on 69.58% and the Novice 39Q on 70.19%.
(Link to full results included.)
Dressage results: Pachesham, Surrey, 5 April 2021
Image: The day’s top scorers, Sara-Jane Lanning and seven-year-old Hawtins Lirica who followed their 71.76% elementary qualifier with a 77.06% first medium.
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DRESSAGE UPDATE
Prepare to be dazzled by what the ‘new’ dressage at Hickstead offers
Dressage glamour returns to Hickstead this year when the site's proprietors will host a Premier League show. Out and About asked Hickstead director Lizzie Bunn about this year's plans and the support they are looking for to put dressage at Hickstead firmly back on the annual national calendar. We also learn how founder Douglas Bunn first introduced dressage to the All England Showjumping venue
TRAINERS & TRAINING
Developing paces and expression — part 1, A receptive mind and body
This is the first in a series of four training articles on 'Developing paces and expression' based on a lecture demo given by Lancashire-based FEI 5* Dressage judge Clive Halsall in Sussex last November at the invitation of Youth Selector and Kent-based trainer Leanne Wall. His audience was composed of judges, trainers and riders.
DRESSAGE TEST ANALYSES — test riding tips series
PSG test analysis for riders: ‘Got my tailcoat and I’m good to go’
PRIX ST GEORGES is the first senior FEI test and also the FEI Young Rider test, comments formerly Surrey-based List 1 judge Mark Ruddock, at the beginning of his his latest test analysis. He adds: “It is also the only PSG in this country, so anticipation can become a problem. (This test analysis first published in May 2017.)
HEALTH & FITNESS
Don’t forget, the ‘other virus’ — Equine Herpes — is still around
Paula Broadhurst, a Director of the Sussex Equine Hospital, explains the various forms of EHV disease and what horse owners and yards can do to minimise the risks.
HAVE YOU READ
The Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde making Molly Key a dressage rider
With typical humility, when asked which horse made her a dressage rider, Molly Key replies, "I don't think I'm made yet!" Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde are on her degree course syllabus
