Tag: FEI Dressage

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.

Here, a rider from Region 1 tells us how she dove feet first into dressage with her spotted dance partner, and the towering feats they’ve accomplished since!

We check in with Elyse Hart and her horse Bob. They recently returned to the FEI ring, with a better understanding of each other and a stronger partnership!

2021 Tokyo Olympic individual gold medalist Jessica von Bredow-Werndl recaptures her title

Text and photos by Jennifer O. Bryant: Medalists cite partnerships with their mares as key to success

By Jennifer O. Bryant: A movement-by-movement look at Steffen Peters’s Paris 2024 Grand Prix dressage test—and why it’s important that our sport remains willing to look at itself critically