FEATURED in the Equine Portrait Photography and Art group September 2011

SOLD 3 Greeting Cards to unknown Redbubble buyer 08/09/2011

FEATURED in the Impressionism Café group August 2010

FEATURED in the Art At Its Best July 2010

Grand Prix level dressage demands the most skill and concentration from both horse and rider.

Gaits and movements performed at this level include:

• collected and extended walk, trot, and canter;
• trot and canter half-pass (a movement where the horse travels on a diagonal line keeping its body almost parallel with the arena wall while making both forward and sideways steps in each stride);
• passage (a slow-motion, suspended trot);
• piaffe (an approach to “trot in place”);
• one, two, & three tempi changes (where the horse changes from one lead to the other in the canter); and
• canter pirouettes (a 360-degree circle that is almost in place).

Tests ridden at the CDI Grand Prix level are scored by a panel of five international judges. Each movement in each test receives a numeric score from 0 (lowest) to 10 (highest) and the resulting final score is then converted into a percentage, which is carried out to three decimal points. The higher the percentage, the higher the score.

Acrylic Paint on Canvas
75cm X 60cm

Original Painting is For Sale unframed – POA