Dressage needs to answer harder questions than just ‘who did what in the warm-up’ to secure its future

The debate about what happens in the warm-up arena extends far beyond any one rider.

H &H’s dressage editor Oscar Williams considers the challenges facing elite dressage, why similar issues are being raised time after time, and what needs to happen to achieve real and lasting change

Footage of Charlotte Dujardin warming up in Amsterdam, circulated online in recent weeks, has produced a now-familiar sequence: a short video goes viral, experts comment, outrage builds, and the sport finds itself, once again, performing concern. A recent article in The Times followed that pattern. A World Horse Welfare spokesperson said the video was “a […]