Tag: FEI Dressage

This article was nominated for the 2025 GMO Newsletter Awards for general interest articles . It appeared in the June 2025 Wisconsin Dressage and Combined Training Association newsletter.

For me, the value is in the struggle. For each challenge faced, I am a better rider for it. These horses forced me to think deeply & honestly.

"As Kim says - and I truly believe - Bob and I have defied all the odds, and the lessons learned in this rich experience are the true reward."

An adult amateur from Region 1 shares her journey to earning her Diamond Achievement Award, and the horses and humans who made up her village along the way.

For dressage, everything really was bigger and better in Texas this week; Text and photographs by Jennifer O. Bryant

You can’t win the warmup, but you can lose in the warmup. Go backstage and see how some of the FEI Dressage World Cup Final riders warm up for their Grand Prix tests. Text & photos by Jennifer O. Bryant.

After feeling his potential early in their partnership, this trainer tells us about her Friesian partner, Enzo, & how his fiery nature has them dancing at the highest level of the sport.

A Region 7 trainer was on the verge of leaving the industry, when a phone call from a potential client with a string of Friesians changed everything.

A young adult and a reserved young Friesian invested in each other, and their deliberate and steady training program is paying dividends in and out of the ring.

Read how a rider from Region 8 brought her Friesian Sporthorse mare all the way up the FEI levels after a half-decade-long career as a broodmare.