The Pony competition in Saumur's all important CDIO section was dominated by Britain's well known Phoebe Peters. After her clean sweep in Vidauban she again claimed triple victory, winning the team, individual and kur with a 72.948%, a 76.536% and a 78.050%. Fellow country mates Rebecca Bell and Amber Barton as well as Belgian Numa Verberne topped the board in the CDI leg of the pony division.

To be at the top of dressage you have to have an amazing relationship with your horse, no question. Training a horse to Grand Prix not only takes talent and skill but also a great deal of knowledge of and respect for your equine partner. Some riders make their way to the top and are then given great horses to ride. Others are still finding their way: when a top horse enters their life, it teaches them and pretty much ignites their dressage career. So how do riders cope when a horse is taken from them?

A brand new DOKR Dressage Selection Committee has been elected at the 2013 General Assembly of the German Equestrian Federation, which is taking place in Munster now.

While the Western European show held on the weekend of 2 - 5 May were blessed with sunshine, the 2013 CDI Radzionkow in Poland had to deal with occasional downpours of rain. The weather, however, did not dampen spirits and a large contingent of European riders travelled to the professionally organized event.

Canadian Grand Prix rider Jon Costin passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on Tuesday 7 May 2013 at Joseph Brant Hospital in Burlington, Canada, at age 44.

German former Under 25 rider Jenny Lang has made a seamless transition to the senior league, winning her first international Grand Prix class as a kur debutante at the 2013 CDI Mannheim on Sunday 5 May 2013. The 26-year old scored 75.550% in the Kur to Music and left seasoned professionals far behind her.

German Olympic team silver medalist Dorothee Schneider sustained a head injury at the 2013 CDI Mannheim on Thursday 2 May 2013. The Framersheim based rider was knocked against the head by her stallion Kaiserkult during the vet check.

No matter if standing in the “Meerfelder Bruch” near Dülmen in Germany, in Nevada in the USA or the Namib desert in Africa: Wherever we can observe wild living horses we can recognise how far our specialised dressage horse breeding has come. The stocky small ponies in Germany’s wild horse resort in Westfalia resemble little with the leggy well moving animals living not far away in the many dressage stables around; except for one absolutely essential fact: They are still both herd animals with a strong flight instinct and the very same needs.