Category: Dressage News

FEI World Championships 2022 Driving, written by Sarah Dance Despite the best attempts of his closest rivals, Boyd Exell (AUS) kept a cool head during a soaking final Cones round in Pratoni to win a decisive 6th individual FEI Driving World Championship for Four-in-Hand, his unbroken reign intact after his first gold 12 years ago in Lexington (USA). His greatest opponent, the four-time champion Ijsbrand Chardon (NED), pushed him every step of the way, nearly spoiling a fairytale ending for the man who has dominated the international stage for so…

By Louise Parkes The star German partnership of Jessica von Bredow-Werndl and her fabulous mare TSF Dalera BB reigned supreme at the fifth leg of the FEI Dressage World Cup 2021/2022 Western European League on home soil at Neumünster today. The pair who dominated the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games last July before going on to sweep another three gold medals at the FEI Dressage European Championships 2021 in Hagen (GER) two months later showed exactly why they stand top of the world rankings when posting today’s winning score of 90.615.…

British Dressage (BD) have announced with great sadness the death of former Chairman, Penny Pollard, on Monday 31 January 2022 at the age of 63 years. Penny had fought a ‘long and brave’ battle against cancer.  Family and friends are reported to be shattered at the completely unexpected passing, even though Penny had been ill for a number of years. Penny was a Board level volunteer with BD and spent a dedicated 10 years with them until, sadly, she was forced to stand down from her position as Chairman due…

Hester, Hughes and Davison set to Thrill Olympia Horse Show Audience in NEW Dressage Unwrapped Experience… Organisers of the Olympia, The London International Horse Show are delighted to announce that a brand-new event, ‘Dressage Unwrapped’ will take place on Monday 16 December at 4pm. Under the glass roof of Olympia Grand, three of Britain’s most celebrated dressage riders, Carl Hester, Gareth Hughes and Richard Davison will unwrap the secrets of dressage for the Olympia audience. Olympia Show Director, Simon-Brooks Ward said: We are absolutely delighted to be hosting our first…

Action got underway yesterday at Somerford Park for the annual Premier League Dressage Competition. Set in the heart of Cheshire, Somerford Park boasts top-class facilities to host competitors and their horses, alongside welcoming visitors from far and wide. The venue holds three major competitions throughout the year, two being in May; British Eventing 80/90/100 followed by the Somerford Premier League Dressage. The calendar concludes with the International CIC2* event in August. Alongside these events, the venue is hired to organisations for championship shows, The Pony Club, kids camps, clinics and…

Equestrians Salute Valegro for Final Farewell at Olympia  Three-time Olympic Champions Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro entered the Olympia Grand Hall for a final time, performing their London 2012 Gold medal winning freestyle test to a sell-out crowd in a touching retirement ceremony on Wednesday 14th December, 2016. In 2014 the pair set the Freestyle Dressage world record at Olympia, and currently hold the highest Olympic score in the Freestyle. Beyond their phenomenal medal haul, the pair have achieved a great amount for the sport itself, as acknowledged by British Dressage…

The Olympia Grand Hall saw a sell-out crowd for yesterday evening’s performance at the 2016 London International Horse Show! The FEI World Cup Dressage Freestyle to Music wowed the packed crowd, with Carl Hester dominating for the second night running. The second day at Olympia, The London International Horse Show could not have ended any more perfectly than with British Dressage’s own Superman, Carl Hester winning the FEI World Cup Dressage Grand Prix Freestyle. The win with Nip Tuck, Hester’s second consecutive Olympia FEI World Cup qualifying win with his 18 hand…

by Louise Parkes German superstar, Isabell Werth, produced a personal-best Freestyle score of 90.09 to win today’s second leg of the FEI World Cup™ Dressage 2016/2017 Western European League at Lyon in France. The 47-year-old rider and her 11-year-old mare simply blew the competition away with an outstanding performance that seemed to take even this multi-medalled athlete by surprise. The pair who claimed team gold and individual silver at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games were always favourites, especially after winning yesterday’s preliminary Grand Prix. But the scale of today’s victory was…

Great Britain’s dressage team get their Olympic Games underway After the eventing cross-country action in Deodoro, the dressage team athletes got their Rio 2016 Olympic Games underway late this afternoon when the dressage Horse Inspection took place. The British team of Fiona Bigwood (Atterupgaards Orthilia, owned by Penny Bigwood and Neils and Lis Dahl), Charlotte Dujardin (Valegro, owned by Rowena Luard, Anne Barrott and Carl Hester), Carl Hester (Nip Tuck, owned by Jane De La Mare and Carl), Spencer Wilton (Super Nova II, owned by Jennifer Goodman and Spencer) and…

Uthopia up for auction through Wilson’s Auctions, Northern Ireland, Friday 27th May, 2016 Not all is a utopian paradise at Olympic winning Dressage rider Carl Hester’s, as an ownership dispute rages on. The GB Gold medal winning dark bay stallion, Uthopia, is to be put to public auction with no reserve. Uthopia is being sold by Tom Keenan (Keenan Corporate Finance) and James Neill (HNH Group), who hold joint ownership of the horse. The sale is part of proceedings for Irish event rider, Sasha Stewart and her father Derek Harrison, who…

Gold Medallists Charlotte Dujardin and Carl Hester will, no doubt, wow crowds that gather for next month’s Bolesworth International CSI **** in Cheshire. Each will compete in the eagerly awaited dressage to music class on June 16.  Their performances have taken the sport to new heights and seen dressage enjoy unprecedented levels of support since Dujardin lit up London 2012 with a staggering freestyle display at Greenwich Park. Hester, meanwhile, guided Britain to team gold at London, when he joined forces with Dujardin and Laura Bechtolsheimer (now Tomlinson). He is now…