Flossy is well known to many on the British Dressage Forum as a teller of interesting stories and perhaps the odd joke or two. We have selected a few tales for your pleasure.

Cultural habits



Every ethnic group has its own cultural habits, people belonging to one ethnic group may find the habits of others some what disagreeable or difficult to understand, for instance I find it


What does your father do


It is a proven facts that one of British Dressage most successful innovations is the creation of BYRDS .

The British Young Rider Dressage Scheme does not cater only for the young participants


How do you stop

The following incident happened at one of British Dressage high profile shows .
The working in arena was full of competitors all diligently working their horses in preparation for the coming test ,


Governing body / FEI



Every sport needs a governing body to run and control its activities, with out an effective body the sport will not function in an organized fair manner and will become an un organized


Training styles

Recent posts  on BD forum highlighted the fact that different people  benefit from different teaching styles, what is suitable for one student  maybe totally alienating to