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RC Dressage I am a competitive dressage rider, Equestrian Canada Basic dressage judge, AEF Certified judge, & an NCCP level 1 coach. Lessons, training, clinics.

09/22/2024

🐴 DRESSAGE SOLUTIONS:🐴 To help you maintain a low hand and closed elbow …

Imagine you're taking a toddler on her first ride and she's sitting on your lap in the saddle. Through all of your movements and transitions, those low-together
hands and tucked-in elbows act like a seatbelt for the little one to enjoy her first ride safely.
—Dressage trainer Bonnie Walker

09/08/2024

🐴 DRESSAGE SOLUTIONS: To maintain your balance ... 🐴

Imagine that your upper body is like a broomstick and your horse is a hand trying to balance it. If your body (the broomstick) starts to tip, your hand (horse) will automatically move underneath to keep it up. You cannot lean right and expect your horse to go left.
~ Great Britain Olympic gold and silver medalist Laura Tomlinson

09/02/2024

🐴 DRESSAGE SOLUTIONS: To create soft downward transitions ... 🐴

Imagine that your transitions land gently like leaves floating to the ground.
~ Dressage trainer Kathy Connelly

Great opportunity for our Youth riders here in Alberta!!!
07/25/2024

Great opportunity for our Youth riders here in Alberta!!!

We are excited to announce that applications are open for our Youth Development Clinic with one of Canada's top international dressage riders, Tom Dvorak, to be hosted at Horizon Equestrian Centre, in Cochrane, AB on Sunday, 22 September. Free tuition.

Contact Sheri Dumonceaux to apply at [email protected].

Please share widely!

Thank you to Tom for the donation of his time and expertise, and Horizon Equestrian Centre for the arena time.

Calgary & Area Alberta Dressage Association
Alberta Dressage Association

06/19/2024

Dressage Solutions: To keep your horse straight ...

Imagine you are riding him on a balance beam. You need to keep him between your leg, seat and hand to keep him centered on the beam.
—Anna Buffini

Anna Buffini is one of eight athlete-and-horse combinations selected to the 2024 Paris Olympics U.S. Dressage Team Short List.

Thanks to Blue Seal for our coverage of the 2024 Paris Olympics, including rider interviews, competition reports, horse spotlights, photos, videos and more.

06/16/2024

Dressage Solutions: To confirm that your horse is on the vertical ...

Imagine he is a unicorn and has a spiral horn coming straight out of his forehead. If you can see the tip of that horn between his ears, you have perfect in-front-of-the-vertical placement. If his nose is behind the vertical, the horn will not be visible.
— Endel Ots

Endel Ots is one of eight athlete-and-horse combinations selected to the 2024 Paris Olympics U.S. Dressage Team Short List.

Thanks to Cosequin Equine for our coverage of the 2024 Paris Olympics, including rider interviews, competition reports, horse spotlights, photos, videos and more.

A helpful tip from my friends at Inhand Equine Therapy!
05/27/2024

A helpful tip from my friends at Inhand Equine Therapy!

Inhand was a proud sponsor of the Tilted Tiara dressage show this weekend and we got to watch some great riding, congrats to all the competitors!!

If competing is in your future, here is our
Equine Fitness Tip:

A horse needs to be comfortable with twice the workload at home compared to what we expect at a show. If you are planning to show two days in a row at a competition, we must practice this schedule or greater at home!

The RC Dressage gang enjoyed their massage day yesterday with the amazing InHandEquineTherapy gals! Tina Snyder Watkins…...
05/18/2024

The RC Dressage gang enjoyed their massage day yesterday with the amazing InHandEquineTherapy gals!
Tina Snyder Watkins….. thank you for being such a great support to the program 🩷🩷

Set for another year!
05/07/2024

Set for another year!

Big THANKS to Mr. DK for stopping by to fit all the RC Dressage gang. We’re set for our summer adventures….. Now, maybe ...
05/01/2024

Big THANKS to Mr. DK for stopping by to fit all the RC Dressage gang. We’re set for our summer adventures….. Now, maybe the weather could decide to be too 😉😂!

04/24/2024

A top training tip from Carl Hester – any horse can be taught how to halt square to pick up valuable marks at every level.

04/22/2024

Imagine the bit being in front of your horse’s mouth. Instead of pulling back, you want to push him forward into the bit for a softer, springier horse. - Phillip Dutton

Thanks to Cosequin Equine for our coverage of the 2024 Defender Kentucky Three-Day Event, including rider interviews, competition reports, horse spotlights, photos, videos and more.

04/07/2024

Functional anatomist and biomechanist, Gillian Higgins from Horses Inside Out, shares some of the best pole exercises for horses to help strengthen these all important muscles

04/01/2024

Ever wondered how to take your test-riding up a notch, to gain those valuable extra marks? Carl Hester shares some golden nuggets of training advice that can help every rider pull in some extra points in the ring… 1. Focus on your own position “Sitting in the middle of the horse is important for...

It was such a special day doing the Century Club rides with my dear friends and clients Berni Carter and Cheryl Coates. ...
03/31/2024

It was such a special day doing the Century Club rides with my dear friends and clients Berni Carter and Cheryl Coates. Both of these ladies are still in the saddle, taking lessons and enjoying horses!
You can check out the magazine with all of the 2023 recipients on the Dressage Foundation page.
Congratulations again ladies 🩷🩷

03/18/2024

To improve the position and forward aspect of your hands...

Imagine home base for your hands as a square in front of your saddle that is even with the width and height of your hips. Always keep your hands in the home-base square with the feeling that you are pushing a shopping cart forward.—Melissa Allen

🎨: Sandy Rabinowitz

03/14/2024
02/27/2024

A discussion of this indispensable element in daily dressage training

Best wishes to everyone in 2024 ❤️!!!
01/01/2024

Best wishes to everyone in 2024 ❤️!!!

Very excited to be apart of Youth Development here in Alberta! This clinic is full but I’m looking forward to doing more...
12/31/2023

Very excited to be apart of Youth Development here in Alberta! This clinic is full but I’m looking forward to doing more of these clinics in 2024!!!!!

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas 🎄 from RC Dressage!!!!
12/25/2023

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas 🎄 from RC Dressage!!!!

THE DREAM THAT MANY WILL NOT UNDERSTAND:My horse is my personal dream.One day when I am very old and when I can not walk...
10/29/2023

THE DREAM THAT MANY WILL NOT UNDERSTAND:
My horse is my personal dream.
One day when I am very old and when I can not walk anymore, it will be in my heart as a trophy of my memories.
I met people who taught me something and have the same spirit and I met others that I'm glad I forgot.
I got wet,
I felt cold,
And I felt warm,
I was afraid,
I fell,
And I stood up,
I even hurt myself, I have been broken,
But also, I laughed out loud inside .
I spoke a thousand times with myself.
I sang and shouted with joy like a madman,
And yes ... sometimes I cried.
I have seen wonderful places and lived unforgettable experiences.
I often made unplanned jumps that even Oliver Skeete would be proud of; other times I made jumps full of terror.
I stopped a thousand times to see a landscape.
I spoke with perfect strangers, and I forgot people I see every day.
I went out with my demons inside and returned home with a feeling of absolute peace in my heart.
I always thought how dangerous it is, knowing that the meaning of courage is to advance even feeling fear.
Every time I go up to my horse I think about how wonderful she is.
I stopped talking about it to those who do not understand, and I learned to communicate with other riders.
I have met some amazing people I now call friends because of my horse.
I spent money that I did not have, giving up many things, but all these things are not worth even one special moment with my horse.
He is not a means of transport or a piece of iron with wheels, it is the lost part of my soul and my spirit.
And when someone says to me: "You have to sell the horse and you have to be a more sensible", ... I do not answer. I just swing my head and smile,
A horse..... only the person who loves them understands it.
May God bless my friends and all their horses...
And the adventure continues!

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