Perfect way to spent an hour and a half at the first day of 2020
During this years Olympia event in London, the spectators got a special Christmas goodie with
“Dressage Unwrapped” was welcomed by Carl Hester and Richard Davison, and first in the arena was British international rider Gareth Hughes riding 9 year old gelding Sintano van hof Olympia by Sandro Hit / Silvano. Gareth is really able to reach the audience when telling about his way of educating and riding the horse.
Stephen Clarke explains a bit about his job as a dressage judge and what you have to look for when judging, and then he is judging a successful combination performing an Intermediaire I test live, and subsequent Richard Davison does some comments about the technical part of the test, and trying to make the combination do a few exercises where they try to improve from the test.
Dickie Waygood guiding and explaining when Pippa Funnell doing some pole work on the ground with a 6 year old.
And then - move the timeline to 1.09.00 to watch Charlotte Dujardin riding the 8 year old Gio by Apache / Tango, while the master himself guiding the audience through nearly every step, showing some high quality exercises working towards Grand Prix.