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Spanish Riding School Haute Ecole (Airs Above The Ground) White Lipizzaner Stallions

Haute Ecole The airs above the ground or school jumps are a series of higher-level, Haute ecole, classical dressage movements in which the horse leaves the ground. They include the capriole, the courbette, the mezair, the croupade and the levade. None are typically seen in modern competitive dressage. The world-famous white Lippizaner stallions from the […]

Dressage Perfection: What Does A Perfect 10 Look Like In Dressage?

The Perfect Score What happens when all of the planets align and the magical unicorn moment of dressage happens? Well… 10s of course. We talk a lot about scoring at Dressage Hub. Part of learning what you see is being able to understand what a good and bad score looks like. You can check out […]

What Happened To The Extended Trot?

What Is The Extended Trot? The extended trot in dressage by definition is: The horse should cover as much ground as possible while maintaining the cadence. While remaining balanced and on the bit, the horse lengthens the frame and the stride as a result of great impulsion from the hindquarters. In the forward movement of […]

Olympian Strikes Out In The Grand Prix Dressage Warm-Up: Olympians Jan Ebeling and Jacqueline Brooks

Dressage Warm-Up The warm-up ring is where all of the action happens at a dressage show. In fact, many professional riders say that the best way to learn from watching is by heading over to the warm-up ring to watch. While you can learn a lot from the warm-up ring in dressage there are a […]

Dressage Disaster: Double Trouble – Blood Elimination For Ashley Holzer

Ashley Holzer In The Hot Seat Ashley Holzer and her ride on Valentine have been a hot topic here on Dressage Hub all season. When Valentine entered the ring in a state of terror the ride went downhill from there. Part 1: https://youtu.be/l2G5u4RG19M Part 2: https://youtu.be/uTaBxHNrzZM Ashley Holzer is back again in the Hot Seat […]

Dressage Disaster P2: Valentine Loses Heart – Rolkur, Anoxia & Trigger Stacking Explained

This dressage disaster triggered a lot of people. There are those who endlessly support a big name and bad decisions and those who see that there is a problem with this ride. Where the opinions start to really vary is whether you believe that this is merely a simple spook or if you believe that […]

Corrupt Judging Rewards Bad Riding: Karen Pavicic ‘Snatched’ Another Win

Corrupt Judging Rides Again Corrupt judging is one of those topics that riders are not supposed to talk about in public. Yet every rider will tell you a tale about a judge who has openly judged them with bias. Last week we talked about the corrupt judging in the Lovsta Future Challenge Class. We stated […]

Dressage Fail: No Change

Dressage disasters are a hot topic here at Dressage Hub. Not all bad tests end in disaster but they certainly result in a dressage fail. In today’s video, we are going to take a look at how these riders all failed in the flying changes. We often see a mistake in the flying changes in […]

Too Much Spur and Too Much Hand – Finding A Balance In Dressage

Leg VS Hand United States Olympic team member Allison Brock talks about riding the horse in front of the leg and onto the bit in this video. The part that nobody really wants to talk about is there is a balance between the leg and the spur and often riders are overusing both. We have […]

Corrupt Dessage Judging Rewards Bad Riding! How Karen Pavicic Slept Her Way To The Top!

Winning At All Costs Let’s face it when you suck at riding horses and have a lofty goal in mind, you need to find a better way to make that dream happen. That is exactly what Canadian turned Croatian, dressage rider Karen Pavicic has done. This weekend at the Wellington CDI she managed to score […]