Top Contenders For Tokyo Brittany Fraser-Beaulieu and All In are Canada’s top contenders for Tokyo in 2021. Will All In stay sound enough to make it? Canadian dressage riders have had a challenging year trying to make the team. With lockdown and travel restrictions, some riders opted to limit travel while others headed to Wellington […]
Grand Prix Dressage Tests
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
What Happened To The Piaffe?
What Is The Piaffe? The piaffe is a dressage movement where the horse is in a highly collected and cadenced trot, in place or nearly in place. The center of gravity of the horse should be more towards the hind end, with the hindquarters slightly lowered and great bending of the joints in the hind […]
Dressage Disaster: Valentine Loses Heart
Hard NO From Valentine Olympian Ashley Holzer has switched teams and it is a ‘hard no’ from her horse Valentine as she loses heart during the Grand Prix Special last week at the Global Dressage Festival. Switching Teams After representing Canada at the Olympics on Breaking Dawn and Pop Art. Ashley Holzer has officially become […]
Warm-Up Wednesday: Heather Blitz & Paragon Grand Prix Dressage Warm-Up
Warm-Up Wednesday It is Warm-Up Wednesday! We are throwing it back to the last year the Paragon and Heather Blitz competed before he was retired. Paragon was known for his controversial movement throughout his career. Today we get to watch Paragon warm-up for the Grand Prix at the Global Dressage Festival in 2015. About Paragon […]
Which One Is Better? Totilas Offspring Comparison – Total US, Toto Jr & Go Legend
The New Frontier With Totilas out of the picture, many dressage fans have been waiting for the moment the offspring of the black dressage stallion would hit the Grand Prix ring. Now is that time. Last week we saw Edward Gal, who also rode Totilas, ride Toto Jr and Total US in the Grand Prix. […]