The following is an editorial following the first selection trial for the 1952 Olympic Games. The U.S. selectors were still trying to sort out how they would choose an Olympic team, and no amateurs showed up at the trials, held at the Devon Horse Show grounds in Pennsylvania, to try out for the eventing team.
While the question of how much dressage training is too much for an event horse remains a topic of discussion, horses like La Biosthetique-Sam prove that good dressage and good jumping aren't mutually exclusive. Photo by Lisa Slade.