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ballet for half-ton animals, judged on whether you look like you're doing nothing.
means A discipline of equestrian sport in which horse and rider perform precise, controlled movements to demonstrate balance, obedience, and refined training.
from Straight from the French dressage, meaning 'training' or 'preparation,' from the verb dresser, 'to train, drill, or make straight.' That dresser traces back through Old French to a Latin root, directiare, 'to set straight' — the same family tree that gives English 'direct' and 'dress.' So underneath all the elegance, the word is plainly about making something go the way you want it to go.
- olympic sport
- Only Olympic event where animals compete equally
- piaffe
- Trotting in place, going absolutely nowhere magnificently
- invisible cues
- Best riders appear motionless, controlling everything
- ancient roots
- Developed from cavalry maneuvers for battlefield agility
- freestyle
- Horses perform choreographed routines set to music
lipizzaner stallions — spanish riding school in vienna has trained these white horses in classical dressage for over 450 years
charlotte dujardin — british olympic dressage rider who won gold medals at london 2012 and rio 2016
kentucky horse park — hosted the 2010 fei world equestrian games dressage competition in lexington, usa