Stephanie

“And yet the weird thing was when I started practicing it again, it felt so easy: in 2012 it had felt incredibly difficult, but with another four years' worth of experience, it was a breeze for both of us. It didn't feel hard at all. That was a measure of how far we'd come together.”
― Charlotte Dujardin, Girl on the Dancing Horse

“But even before Hez the shine had gone off the showing world for me. Your pony's way of going often wasn't taken into consideration, and with the irregularities in the judging I was starting to wonder why I bothered: you'd travel round the country and ride well only to lose out to people who really didn't deserve to win.”
― Charlotte Dujardin, Girl on the Dancing Horse

“Your shoujlders, head, and elbows are passengers: they turn only because your spine spirals. If your hips were to turn along with the shoulders, your position wouldn't support the horse's bend and his haunched would swing out.”
― Beth Baumert, When Two Spines Align: Dressage Dynamics: Attain Remarkable Riding Rapport with Your Horse

“The rider who is constantly looking at her horse's neck has a problem similar to the one who clutches the saddle with her legs. She will always be in her horse's balance; she uses her horse's balance as a frame of reference because she never looks outside it. The rider who stares at her horse's neck is committed to being "on the forehand" and can;t influence her horse otherwise.”
― Beth Baumert, When Two Spines Align: Dressage Dynamics: Attain Remarkable Riding Rapport with Your Horse