I am, after many years, still grateful to Stecken for teaching me the importance of the correct basics--which I have applied diligently throughout my career--and making me aware of the differences between Baucher's and Guérinière's methods. I have been able to better analyze these two different points of view throughout my career.
John Winnett represented the United States in both show jumping and dressage at World Championships and in Olympic Games. He studied dressage in the 1960s and 1970s with Fritz Stecken, Dr. Reiner Klimke and Herbert Rehbein. He retired from international competition in 2000. He authored the book Dressage as Art in Competition, first published by J.A. Allen in 1993. He and his wife, Roanne, settled in Wellington, Fla., in 1996, to teach and train. He died in 2007.
This article originally appeared in the August 2007 issue of Dressage Today magazine.
