Sometimes They Do Sparkle

I haven’t paid much attention to the dressage show world in recent years. The desire to show was never really there, and much of what I did see was painful. The controversy over Rollkur went back and forth continually, with the poor horses trapped in the middle.

Then there was the fact that the horses that were considered competitive were European Warmbloods: large, often huge, powerful, long-strided horses that tended to cost the earth. I tried, but they weren’t for me. I’m a short person and...