Charlotte Dujardin Quotes

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.

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.

Dressage is all about harmony: having a relationship with your horse where it has confidence in you so that everything you do together looks effortless and easy, like it's all happening by magic. But I can tell you now there wasn't a lot of harmony at the beginning.