What are you doing to recognize your horse when they’re afraid, and stop it? The pandemic has made live streams more available than ever in the dressage world. That means we are able to watch and learn more about what is happening in dressage. Which is awesome! It also means that we are able to […]
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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 […]
Top Secret Horseshow Hack They Don’t Want You To Know About!
Top Secret Professional riders get to have all the fun! They get to ride the nice horses, travel around the world and keep all the best secrets on how to cheat their way to a better score. Today we are breaking down the walls! To give you everything you need to know about this top-secret […]
Dressage Contraversies: What Is Rolkur?
Rolkur is often a hot topic and a bit of trigger among dressage riders. I have been following a series of dressage controversy videos on TikTok done by Blonde Dressage. She does a great job of explaining some of the hot topics in the dressage world and why you should care. I reached out to […]
That Horse Is NOT Spooking It Is Dying!
How Did We Get Here Over the past few weeks, we have posted several Dressage Disaster videos of horses spooking in the Grand Prix at the Global Dressage Festival. While most riders can relate to a horse casually spooking here and there. It needs to be addressed that there is a difference in how and […]
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 […]
Is This Horse Lame? Lameness Lab
Is This Horse Lame? Our most successful series of videos here on Dressage Hub was the Lameness Lab: Is This Horse Lame series hosted by Equine Guelph. In this series, we talk about how to identify lameness in horses. When it comes to an eye for lameness it is important to continue to watch horses […]
Dressage Disaster: Blood In The Dressage Ring
A First Time For Everything There is a first time for everything and today happens to be my lucky day! I am mostly thrilled because I watched a dressage judge actually do what is correct and ethical instead of doing what the horse show sponsors and managers want. Granted, this may have been a different […]
Dressage Disaster: No Excuse (Blog Post)
Bad Dressage Is Not All Bad Dressage disasters are some of our most-watched videos here on Dressage Hub. While some people get disgruntled over the context of the videos, they have opened up some interesting conversations among equestrians within the community. The disaster videos have encouraged people to talk about blue tongues, marshmallow fluff, and […]
Retiring Without Respect: Degas 12 Is Done
The Push For Tokyo 2021 The 2021 season of the Global Dressage Festival has kicked off a do-over season of Olympic qualifiers. Jill Irving and Degas 12 were one of the top Canadian combinations to qualify for the Olympics in Tokyo. Unfortunately due to Covid-19, the Olympics did not happen, and for a few equestrians […]