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unusual facts about dressage



2011 European Dressage Championship

On the second day Laura Bechtolsheimer and particularly Carl Hester, who led with his horse Uthopia in individual ranking after the Grand Prix de Dressage, can extend their lead in the team result.

Arthur Qvist

As member of the Norwegian dressage team they finished seventh in the team dressage competition.

Baumer

Uwe Schulten-Baumer (born 1926), a former German show jumping and dressage rider

Brandenburger

Poetin, a Brandenburger mare, was a successful dressage horse and sold for a record amount at auction: 2.5 million Euros.

Brentano II

Brendan Braveheart (1999) Grand Prix dressage horse provided by Libby and Jules Anderson for Lise Yervasi, para-dressage rider, to compete on towards the 2012 Olympics in para dressage.

Classical dressage

Today the only remaining large schools of classical dressage are the Cadre Noir, the Spanish Riding School, the Royal Andalusian School of Equestrian Art in Jerez de la Frontera, the Portuguese School of Equestrian Art in Lisbon, the Mexican Haute École of Riders Domecq in Texcoco and the South African Lipizzaners in South Africa.

Courbette

One of the Airs above the ground or school jumps performed by horses in classical dressage

Dressage World Cup

Reem Acra is starting with the season 2010/2011 for three years the sponsor of the Dressage World Cup.

Edward Gal

In a piece in The Courier-Journal of Louisville, Kentucky that ran before the 2010 Games, dressage trainer Susan Posner pointed out that Toto was only in his second year in dressage despite being 10 years old, and said that his success illustrated how capable Gal was as a rider.

Emma Hindle

When Kyrklund moved to the UK in 1993, Hindle moved to the base of Netherlands Olympic dressage medallist Ellen Bontje in Frankfurt, Germany.

Aged 12, Hindle was under instruction from international dressage judge Stephen Clarke and at 18 she moved to Sweden to train with Kyra Kyrklund at the Flyinge Stud.

Equestrian at the 2003 Pan American Games

Equestrian competitions at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic were held in 2003 at the Palmarejo Equestrian Center (dressage and jumping).

Equestrian at the 2004 Summer Olympics

The Markopoulo Olympic Equestrian Centre, on the outskirts of Markopoulo in the Attica region of Greece, hosted the dressage and jumping events while the eventing took place in the nearby Eventing Park.

Equestrian at the 2007 Southeast Asian Games

The events of the Equestrian at the 2007 Southeast Asian Games the dressage and show jumping events were held at the Horseshoe Point, Pattaya, Chon Buri Province, Thailand and eventing event were held at the Thai Polo Club, Pattaya, Chon Buri Province, Thailand

Equestrian at the 2008 Summer Paralympics – Team

The team championship, para-equestrian dressage event at the 2008 Summer Paralympics was decided by tests ridden at Hong Kong Olympic Equestrian Centre.

Equestrian at the 2011 Pan American Games – Individual dressage

The first round of the individual dressage competition is the FEI Prix St. Georges Test.

Equestrian at the Friendship Games

Events were held on three venues in Poland: Jumping events were held in Sopot between 6 and 10 August, dressage – at the Książ Landscape Park near Wałbrzych between 17 and 19 August, while eventing was held at the Modern Pentathlon and Equestrian Centre of the Lubusz Sports Club "Lumel" in Drzonków on 23–26 August 1984.

Erp, Netherlands

She is a Dutch dressage champion who won two gold medals in the 2000 and 2004 summer Olympics and four silver medals in the 1992, 1996 and 2000 summer Olympics.

Horse training

20th century text by the former director of the Spanish Riding School covering the training of horses from basic dressage through the haute ecole or "high school" movements.

Jacksonville Equestrian Center

They have hosted a diverse group of events which range from dressage to Rodeo; the Royal Lipizzan Stallions to the 4-H annual horse show.

Jane Holzer

Her son, Rusty Holzer competed for the United States Virgin Islands at the 1992 Summer Olympics in show jumping whilst his wife, Ashley Nicoll-Holzer is a dressage rider who won a bronze medal for Canada at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Juha Hirvi

He holds the record with other 2008 participant, dressage rider Kyra Kyrklund and three winter Olympians: cross country skiers Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi and Harri Kirvesniemi and ice hockey player Raimo Helminen.

Lusitano

In 2002, there was a Lusitano on the World Equestrian Games bronze-winning dressage team that went on to collect a silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi

They are the only married couple to have both competed at six Olympics, and are among the only five Finns to have done so - the others being Raimo Helminen (ice hockey), Kyra Kyrklund (dressage), and Juha Hirvi (shooting).

Monica Theodorescu

Born in Halle, North Rhine-Westphalia, Monica Theodorescu is the daughter of the German, former Romanian, dressage rider George Theodorescu and the German show jumping rider Inge Theodorescu (born as Inge Fellgiebel).

Rollkur

The FEI moved to ban the practice following the release of video of Swedish dressage rider Patrik Kittel using rollkur during warm up at a competition in Denmark where the horse's tongue appeared to turn blue as a result of the manoeuvre.

Sjef Janssen

Sjef Janssen is the Dutch national Olympic team dressage coach and spouse of Anky van Grunsven.

United States Dressage Federation

Running under the USEF, the Federation is committed to education, recognition of achievement and promotion of dressage in the United States.

Uwe Schulten-Baumer

Sjef Janssen, the Dutch national team dressage coach and spouse of Anky van Grunsven, both known for their use of Rollkur, stated that the Rollkur system Janssen created was "totally different" from the training techniques of Schulten-Baumer.

Wilfholme

A nine year-old dressage horse, Faldo, trained for nine months at Wilfholme, was bought in 2010 by the production company for Steven Spielberg's film War Horse to play one of the film's two horses in the role of Topthorn.

World Dressage Masters

Since beginning of 2011 Eurosport is the Global Media Partner of the World Dressage Masters.


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