Dressage riders trot to new heights
Dressage is deceptive. It may look easy, but to do it well is incredibly difficult and takes years of practice and dicipline.
Local riders took part in the Hilldrop Stables training Dressage show on Saturday March 12.
The word ‘dressage’ is a French term, meaning training. Dressage is the art of striving for a harmonious and barely perceptible communication between horse and rider.
Harmonious performance is only possible when the rider has a correct and well-balanced body position, moves with the horse’s motion and times the commands correctly.
Dressage is deceptive. It may look easy, but to do it well is incredibly difficult and takes years of practice and dicipline.
Riders competed in various classes, Walk Trot, Preliminary, Novice and Elementary class.
Congratulations to the following riders who took first and second place in their various classes:
Winner in Walk Trot class 1 and 2, Naadirah Goga on her horse Lightning.
Winner preliminary class 1 and 2, Nikita French on her horse Chief Chinook.
Second place in preliminary class 1, Naadirah Goga on Danny Boy.
Second place in preliminary class 2, Sam Swanepoel on Forenzic.
Winner of Novice class 1 and 2, Nikita French on Brighten.
Second Place in Novice class 1 and 2, Gwen Duncan on Sparticus.
Winner of Elementary class 1 and 2, Margi Cameron on her horse Cameo.
