WELCOME WHAT'S NEW? DRESSAGE BLOG THE STORE HORSES FOR SALE ARTICLES Q & A FORUM QUOTES OF THE MASTERS PHOTOS OF THE MASTERS NEWSLETTER DISCUSSION GROUP ABOUT US PHILOSOPHY OUR PHOTOS OUR VIDEOS TRAINING LESSONS CLINICS RIDING VACATIONS PERFORMANCES CALENDAR OF EVENTS LINKS DONATE TO US ADVERTISING CONTACT US Subscribe to Our Newsletter Painting of Maestoso II Catrina ridden by Shana Ritter. Painting by Janey Belozer.	Quotes of Cdt de Padirac "Why do we ride? We ride horses for the pleasure of `creating beauty' as the Master Ecuyer (La Guérinière) said. We ride for the pleasure of feeling ourselves transported into different attitudes, drowned into the fluidity of a supple and tranquil back, rocked by the cadence of ample and harmonious gaits. It is a long-haul work, requiring much patience. It takes years for making a dancer or a pianist. It takes as much to make an Ecuyer. But, this work with its disappointments, its discoveries, its successes, is so enthralling that, in the ordinary life nothing matters any longer when one sits on the back of a horse. Classical dressage, when it is well understood, allows getting progressively to the highest summits of this Art." Excerpt from `Equitation-La Tradition Classique by Cdt de Padirac Translation by Bruno Celard

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