Category: Dressage Update

With BD envisaging a resumption of competitions in July, organisers of BD competitions in Kent,...

F for Fantastic news for riders in the East Grinstead/Sussex-Surrey borders area! Felbridge showground, long a Mecca for showjumping, combined training and unaffiliated dressage, is about to start running BD competitions. More dates are published here now.

For whatever reason you and your horse can’t get out and about to compete, there is a way you can set yourself training goals and have your progress monitored by some of our most highly qualified and experienced BD judges. Out and About travelled into Hampshire to get a Dressage Anywhere story from the ‘horse’s mouth’.

Over the past week at Step Aside (Belmoredean), Saddlesdane and Pachesham venues Out and About Dressage heard about some epic journeys made by riders in terms of their training and competition travels around country.

Dressage riders with a job to do or out to play at Belmoredean. A picture report with a little bit of horse and rider news

Charlotte Wickington, farmer’s wife, mum and rider of blonde bombshell Welsh D Tardebigge Fancy Lady will be opening the door to a bigger office very shortly.

Oldencraig as a training and competition centre has finally succumbed to the axe or rather the excavator, and has yielded to the pressure to build houses in the South-East. It’s last show will run in August.

Image: Strong cold gusty winds had driven most riders indoors when Out and About visited on 27 April, but the lone rider puts the arena size usefully into scale!

It’s great to hear that a show centre offering great facilities and easy access to the motorway network has not been lost to the dressage circuit.

With equestrian properties being sold off in the South-East for housing development it’s great to hear of one centre that is investing in additional facilities to cater for unsatisfied demand.