Originally Posted by Ltc4h

Your right Dressage=Training and any horse can do it. Although some horses body types are built more towards it. An Andalusion is almost in that collected frame @ birth, where a heavier fronted horse like a QH will have to work harder for the same result. It is great fun and like any other sport to do it well takes time. I would love to see people loose the idea of an Import being the only good Dressage horse. I don't know why Americans are so hard headed, we can't beat the Germans in international Dressage competitions on our German Imports WHY ? Well as any smart competitor you sell the 2nd string horses to your competition and keep the good ones for yourself. Its been decades and we still think they are really going to sell us the best of the best