Dressage Anywhere, the online dressage competition website, is excited to launch the Dressage Anywhere Music Festival running throughout July. Although the competition scene is looking brighter, many riders are still unable to travel. Dressage Anywhere and a group of enthusiasts are putting on a fun, swinging and all-inclusive competition. All those who would have been enjoying dancing to music at their favourite show can now compete from home by filming a test and entering online. It’s also a great opportunity for those riders who want to try out their music before competing at a live event.
Classes run from Walk and Trot to Advanced Medium and all will be judged by British Dressage qualified music judges. The total prize pot, worth over £1000 includes individually designed competition CDs, sets of educational freestyle to music DVDs, individually designed floor plans and wrist speakers.
Dressage Anywhere’s Ruth Chappell and Nereide Goodman said,
We’re so grateful to our sponsors and are excited for those itching to get dancing. We are still recovering from the success of the Hobby Horse classes we ran during the lockdown and we know some of those riders are looking forward to sitting on four legs rather than on one.’
Over 40 years ago Nereide launched the first national freestyle to music competition under the Wellington Riding banner. As she says, ‘the quality of music, horses, training and now accessibility has come on some way since then and it still has those elements of fun, innovations and great entertainment’.
Sponsors include: Beat this Dressage to Music, Gaynor Colbourn, Steph Croxford, Equidance, Equivisions and Through the Eye of the Judge.
About Dressage Anywhere
Dressage Anywhere has been running online dressage competition and training classes since 2010 and has judged over 11,000 dressage tests online to date, with 12,500 members from more than 70 countries. Dressage tests are judged online by a BD List 1, 2 or specialist judge and riders can download their scoresheet as soon as their test has been judged.
For more information visit the Dressage Anywhere website.
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