North western dressage fans are in for a real treat this Bank Holiday weekend when the Somerford Park Premier League fixture opens its gates at lunchtime today (Friday) followed by three packed to the brim days of competition. Entry numbers are well u…
Do you find it hard to keep your horse straight when you do a dressage test? International dressage rider Hayley Watson-Greaves has an exercise to help.
British Dressage (BD) is the national governing body for the Olympic sport of dressage and a member of the British Equestrian Federation. We aim to develop and promote dressage competition in the UK at all levels, to continually improve our sport. As…
2017 Nordic International Sales auction foal: colt by Franklin x Romanov
2017 Nordic International Sales
The 2017 Nordic International Sales have now almost completed the selection of premium dr…
Opinion
Horse & Hound’s dressage columnist asks when a top dressage judge will be installed at Badminton
‘To receive this honour from the Spanish Riding School, an institution that inspires millions, is so humbling’
There’s just one more week to take advantage of the early bird ticket offer for this year’s Principles of Judging Seminar. So if you’re planning to go, don’t miss out on the opportunity to secure yours at a discounted rate.
The …
The British Grooms Association (BGA) has launched an innovative online Contract Creator, with full support from the equestrian industry.
The move follows a recent survey which identified that approximately 56% of the 700 grooms which took part are empl…
There is undisputed evidence to show that owners, riders and trainers have a poor ability to recognise signs of pain manifest as lameness when horses are ridden. Approximately 47% of sports horses in regular work and assumed to be sound have pain-related gait abnormalities. In a dressage horse the early stages of lameness may only be manifest under certain conditions and may be misinterpreted as conflict behaviour, difficulties in learning a movement or ‘one-sidedness’. However, tension, evasions, unevenness in the contact, resistances, spookiness, difficulties with specific movements such as flying changes could all potentially be a manifestation of pain.
Are you a talented rider residing in England? The British Equestrian Federation (BEF) England Excel Talent Programme is now seeking applications for the forthcoming Programme cycle for its 2017 squads.
Now an established and successful progression rout…