My new favorite YouTube channel, Land Rover UK, has been flooding us with wonderful videos and diaries from Burghley lately, but they’ve also got a really interesting new series. The series is called “The Pursuit of Excellence” and it follows three London gold medallists in their separate sports. Ben Maher of Show Jumping (who we’ve already featured here on EN), Laura Tomlinson of Dressage, and Zara Phillips from Eventing. Check out their Facebook page to keep up with all three riders!
“At all levels Dressage – likened to ballet on horseback – demonstrates a horse’s ability, under subtle communication from its rider, to display absolute control over its body. The communication between the rider and horse must be effortless, as if the horse is acting under its own will rather than on instruction from the rider.”
