Thoroughbreds – especially former racehorses – arrive in the dressage arena carrying baggage. Too hot. Too tense. Too flat. But Louise Robson specialises in dressage training for thoroughbreds and ...

Napa’s Jane Ewer, riding Marian Berg and David Wehlitz’s 4-year-old Dutch gelding “Amethist Utopia,” began competing Thursday in the 2009 California Dressage Society Championships and Great American ...

When Mimi Benton was a teenager riding horses bareback in the hills of Southern California, she might not have ever heard the word “dressage.” Now, at 42, she is competing — and winning — in horse ...

Barbara Bend was in her 40s starting life with an empty nest. All four of her children — Drs. Richard Bend Jr., Ron, Amie and Eve — are chiropractors. All went to college, graduated and moved on — two ...

When Christina Handshy is riding her horse, Joy, it is like being one with each other. Handshy, 16, has been training Joy in the art of dressage for the last four years as she has learned herself. "I ...

FRAMINGHAM — Wendy McKelvy began horseback riding later in life, but her passion for equestrian has run deep for many years. Like many kids, McKelvy wanted a pony growing up, but her family was unable ...