Tag: Saddleseat

It was Sept 30, 2018. “YEEEEEOW!” The crowd screams, we’re under the bright lights, and all 22 of us are going a seeming hundred miles per hour, vying for the judges attention, nostrils flared, and feet pounding the earth. After 10 years and countless shows, this is the culmination of our career as a saddleseat team, my last saddleseat view between the ears, and boy is it bittersweet.

By Kathryn E. Crockett Dressage first knocked softly in my first lessons as a seven-year-old, riding around bareback on large, ever-patient horses, waiting with the...