It’s a well-known saying: “It’s not our ancestors we need to follow but what our ancestors followed.” This also applies to the training of horse and rider, since both have changed in the last hundred years. Thus, although contributing to or taking away from our ancestors’ knowledge is not possible…

The 1928 Amsterdam Olympics ended with a rather odd fiasco for the Hungarian dressage riders. After arriving at the location and seeing the work of the other nation's riders they decided to return home before the competition began, despite the professionals present all agreed that Paul Keméry's trot…

How could a high-level Equestrian Culture be maintained in a country as big as the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy? How could the furthest corps uniformly have excellent equine knowledge? The answer of the Monarchy was the two-tier training. A campagne riding school was established in Wiener Neustadt.…