Wednesday, Apr. 16, 2025

Don’t Be Afraid To Break: Final Day Of Robert Dover Horsemastership Clinic

Wellington, Fla.—Dec. 30

There’s an elusive moment all dressage riders are searching for when they swing into the saddle. A space within the movement where their horse is producing as animated and perfect a gait as he can without slipping from the extended trot to the canter, from the piaffe to jigging backwards—the tipping point.

On the final day of the Robert Dover Horsemastership clinic, trainers Dover, Debbie McDonald and Michael Barisone encouraged their riders to boldly fall to the wrong side of that tipping point—they invited their riders to make the mistake.

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