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Real Life Dressage: Training Advice from Novice to Grand Prix illustrated edition
Author(s): Carl Hester (Author), Polly Ellison (Author)
- Publisher: Kenilworth Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 20 Dec. 2004
- Edition: illustrated edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 120 pages
- ISBN-10: 9781872119496
- ISBN-13: 9781872119496
Book Description
Dressage doesn’t have to be complicated!
In Real Life Dressage, Team GB Olympic Gold winning dressage rider Carl Hester shares his training methods and shows how they can be adapted to suit individual horses. All the horses in this book are horses who have problems. None of them are perfect, because in real life dressage, the perfect horse doesn’t exist.
With chapters on: training principles, intelligent riding, philosophy for young horses, training for various ages, training the Grand Prix horse, as well as other horses and techniques.
Assisted by co-writer Polly Ellison, Carl outlines his training regimes and favourite exercises, explaining that the aim of the book: “is not to describe ideal training scenarios but to look at what we can do, to the best of our ability, with the horses we have. Difficult horses can become good horses, as I have proven with Escapado; and it is important not to give up until you are absolutely sure that it’s not going to work”.
Editorial Reviews
Review
The consummate reference dressage manual. –Central Horse News
About the Author
In 2011 Hester, riding the horse Uthopia, was part of the British team that won the team gold medal at the 2011 European Dressage Championship in Rotterdam. Hester also won individual silver medals in the Grand Prix Freestyle and Grand Prix Special.As of 8 August 2012 the (FEI) rank him 12th in the world riding Uthopia.
In 2012, Hester was selected with three others to represent the United Kingdom at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London in the Individual and Team Dressage events. The UK dressage team won the gold medal with Hester riding Uthopia.
