Dressage Today Online Extras

Retraining Thoroughbreds for Dressage

Americans love Thoroughbreds. They carried our soldiers, they delivered our mail and their intense desire to win races inspires us every spring as we yearn for a Triple | MORE

Webinar: “Ask the Author” with Janet Foy on Dressage For The Not-So-Perfect Horse

As part of Dressage Today's Book Club, Janet Foy presented a webinar on her book Dressage For The Not-So-Perfect Horse. Janet, an FEI 4* and USEF “S” dressage | MORE

Breed a Superior Dressage Horse

By Anne Schmidt

Genetic specialist Dr. Ludwig Christmann gives a seminar on Hanoverian mare and stallion selection for dressage. By Anne Schmidt for Dressage Today magazine. | MORE

Dressage Breed Outlook: The Registration Game

By Kyle Karnosh

Instead of just gazing wistfully at all the stallion ads this year, you’ve decided to breed your mare. Aside from all the breeding details, an important but sometimes | MORE

4 Dressage Training Problems Solved

By Jennifer Baumert with Beth Baumert

When I begin dressage training with a new dressage horse and dressage rider, I always want to know about their strengths and weaknesses, so I ask. I’ve learned | MORE

Lilo Fore: 10 Tips for Dressage Training

By Sandra Adair Daugirda

I was ready for my clinic with Lilo Fore. I had spent a month in intense preparation since receiving the exciting news that I had been selected as | MORE

Christoph Hess: Ride Like a Dressage Professional

By Christoph Hess with Hilary Moore Hebert

I want to share with you what it takes to ride like a dressage professional. A leading golf trainer once said that in his sport there are certain | MORE

24 Training Tips from Kyra Kyrklund

By Beth Baumert

Five-time Olympian Kyra Kyrklund shares her dressage training secrets at a Kentucky symposium. By Beth Baumert for Dressage Today magazine. | MORE

Ask the Experts – Crookedness at Canter

Barb Crabbe, DVM, answers a Dressage Today reader's question about her horse's crookedness at canter and offers some exercises to help strengthen him and straighten the canter. | MORE

Rider Fitness Tip of the Month: Develop a Quiet Seat in Dressage

By Heather Sansom, Owner, Equifitt.com Equestrian Fitness

This rider fitness tip discusses the importance of having a quiet seat for dressage and shows you ways in which you can increase your straightness and balance to help you develop a quiet seat. By Heather Sansom for Dressage Today magazine. | MORE