Cynthia Spalding Dressage

12/23/2025

lol

12/23/2025

Choose wisely this week, my fellow equestrians! 🖤

12/27/2023

So I was thinking about writing about dressage. So many books with so much info out there...
but it all boils down to:

You don't know till you know.
Then you know again. Only better.
Then you find out you don't know at all.

Possibly the only one page dressage book.

11/26/2023

https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/2017/08/conformation-and-its-implications-for-dressage-training/?fbclid=IwAR2DcRmnufkpclN6TVo6tiLYxDm0h5PdVzTliXNq_aRMc2LFLZUwjZ0fdgM

Conformation and Its Implications for Dressage Training Posted on August 31, 2017 by horsemagazine by Angela McLeod – http://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/whos-who/mcleod-angela/ Just like people, horses come in all shapes and sizes and some are more naturally athletic than others. Pictures in this ar...

11/15/2023

When asked to describe dressage to non riders, I always say that it is a combination of martial arts and ballet between two difference species, which requires a truth and intimacy of thought and action.

09/30/2023

I came across this in my file of my camp handouts..I still think of it this way after 35 years! There are five pages to this . This is the first page.

07/05/2023

https://dressagetoday.com/instruction/goodbye-pyramid-hello-spiral/?fbclid=IwAR3EnpPsHKUb9WiWY7yPq4sxhx9aE0KeOIAAL_pL1vHSCnqVX40TpHuplTA

An Excerpt from "The Training Spiral" by Sue Grice.