The other thing that has changed very much since my early childhood riding days (NOT 70 years ago!) is the type of horse we see today in the dressage world. but training young horses from scratch is a thing that really shouldn’t deviate too much from the original idea, yet it has. Very few things in life are still great the way they were 70 years ago, particularly in Germany …. I also still draw from my military-precision, staccato-teaching grandfather who instilled dressage in me the way the German cavalry rode it. But of course I want to stay educated and venture into other disciplines frequently. I live and breathe eventing and you will find me mostly on the cross country course in Warendorf. At least not in the sense of what dressage is today. If you want to understand my little story, I should probably tell you that I am not a dressage rider.
If you want to understand more about German horse breeding, this is the place to go. Now if we could figure out cell reception and more than one hot spot along the way that would really help. The show is well run and has a great feeling to it. Some 700 horses and ponies that have qualified via a rigorous system all year long appear in Warendorf to battle it out. At least most of it.Ī Great Place to Understand What Horse Breeding is Evolving Into You hit the grounds at the DOKR in Warendorf, and your world changes. Unfortunately that is the only tranquility my little story here will offer the reader. Nothing says “horse country” quite so well as the Münsterland at 7 AM with fog and the rising sun. That in itself is kind of stupid, knowing that accommodation is booked out in the entire region way in advance.Īt least that way I get to stay in cool villages and towns I had no idea existed and can drive alone through just stunningly beautiful scenery very early in the mornings. Which is why I usually don’t make up my mind to go right until before. I love it and I hate it at the same time. Maren Engelhardt for Eurodressage) - My relationship to the Bundeschampionat is ambivalent.
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