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 ...

While most people can appreciate the grace and athleticism of ballet, dressage – the precision art of horse riding and training – remains a puzzling spectacle to all but a few. A new performance by ...

Grand Valley Dressage Society is a local chapter of a national society of a style of equestrian riding. It started in the 1990s and currently has around 70 members. Each year, it hosts educational ...

The art of riding a horse around a manicured ring in carefully planned patterns apparently is addictive.It’s called dressage, and Pam Goodrich is among the riders addicted to the art.Goodrich has ...

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 ...

If your idea of horsemanship is an image of a cowpoke loping along on Old Paint, rounding up a few steers, you might want to upgrade your perspective at two upcoming area horse shows. The shows–this ...

Three years ago, Loxahatchee dressage rider and public relations entrepreneur Johnny Robb took a trip to Brazil that permanently changed her equestrian life. She flew down to visit the Interagro ...

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 ...

The dominant German dressage team has won gold for the third time in a row, taking the country's Paris 2024 gold tally to four. The win puts team leader Isabell Werth into the history books with a ...

Growing up in the Westminster-based Hoofbeat 4-H Saddle Club and attending weekly horse shows at the Carroll County Agriculture Center helped shape 58-year-old Heidi Seipp Berry’s future. That future ...