The Horse Podcast
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The Horse Podcast
Rebecca Ashton here. As an equestrian journalist, I get to interview people who are top of their game and have so many ideas and information to pass on. This often transcribes into quite long interviews, sometimes a few thousand words. While the interviews I do will still be transcribed and offered...
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Ingrid Klimke: The Passion
Ingrid Klimke needs no introduction. She has represented Germany in both dressage and eventing, she is a multi-championship medal winner including Oly...
Dinja van Liere: From Young Horses to Grand Prix
DInja is a Dutch dressage amazon who has already had great successes from young horse classes to championship Grand Prix. Her greatest success at the...
Jessica Von Bredow-Werndl: Know When To Kick Yourself/ Know When To Hug Yourself
Last year dressage superstar Jessica von Bredow-Werndl successfully defended her Olympic gold medals both in the teams and individual competition in P...
Becky Moody: Aachen CHIO 2025. What a Year!
It’s the “Aachen Series”! Today we chat to Team GB dressage superstar Becky Moody. This was her first Aachen experience and she brought her top star a...
Patrik Kittel - The Fire and the Smoke
Swedish dressage rider Patrik Kittel has been in the top sport for 25 years. A competitor in four Olympics and numerous World Equestrian Games and Wor...
Christoph Hess: The Rider's Responsibility
Christoph Hess is a modern day master. He studied to be a teacher at university and was a rider of competitions and at auction yards before becoming a...
Jayden Brown: A Higher Standard
Although Paris will be Jayden’s first Olympics, the Australian dressage rider is no stranger to the international sport.
He competed in...
Becky Moody: Solving Problems and Always Learning
Team GB’s newest dressage superstars Becky and her homebred Jagerbomb may have seemed like an overnight success story when they burst onto the interna...
Sönke Rothenberger: The Important Things
Even though still in his 20s, German dressage star Sönke Rothenberger has already had massive success in the competition arena. Following numerous suc...
Carl Hester: More Top Horses, Team GB...and life
I catch up with dressage legend Carl Hester at Aachen CHIO. We get the lowdown on the Aachen stars Imhotep and Times Kismet and getting young horses t...
Will Matthew: Isabell Werth's Australian rider
Will Matthew is the overnight success that’s not an overnight success. Originating from Western Australia he now rides for and trains with Isabel Wert...
Lyndal Oatley: Dressage Olympian; the journey
Australian dressage rider Lyndal Oatley is based in Europe and married to Swedish team member Patrik Kittel. She has competed in two Olympics, London...
Gareth Hughes: Technique, Horsemanship and riding the Grand Prix
Team GB dressage rider Gareth Hughes has won over 60 national and international titles including team silver in 2014 and 2022 WEG and 2021 European Dr...
Charlotte Jorst: Success in Dressage and Business
Today’s interview is with the generous, genuine, insightful and pragmatic Charlotte Jorst. Although on the surface Charlotte’s life might look utopian...
Cathrine Laudrup- Dufour: Playing With Horses and Being A Nerd!
I caught up with Cathrine during her sensational Aachen campaign just before the World Championships at Herning. She’s always so much fun to talk to....
Christopher Bartle: Equestrian Coaching Legend
Christopher needs no introduction. He’s arguably the best equestrian coach in the world. After a twenty-year gold rush with Germany, Christopher Bartl...
Rasmus Bagger mental coach to the stars: Don't Be Realistic, Be Relentless!
Picture this…..you’re one of the world’s top dressage rider. Tokyo is just around the corner. You are at a Nations Cup representing your team and your...
Andrew Hoy: Eight Time Olympian. Passion!
Eight time Olympian Andrew Hoy and I had a fabulous catch up over Zoom (how good’s technology?!) just before he heads off to Tokyo. Here’s your chance...
Jessica Von Bredow-Werndl: DressurFit for Rider Fitness
Do you want to ride like Jessica Von Bredow-Werndl? So do I. Well….I can’t promise her fitness programme will achieved that…she does a lot of hard wor...
Andreas Hausberger: Chief Rider, The Spanish Riding School, Vienna
This is one of the most fabulous interviews I’ve had the privilege of being part of. Andreas Hausberger. He’s a chief rider at the Spanish Riding Scho...
Hans Heinrich Meyer zu Strohen 2: Life In The Top Sport
Hans Heinrich is a household name in Germany when it comes to the training of young riders and young horses. If you go to any of warmup arena at the b...
Hans Heinrich Meyer zu Strohen: Concentration and Discipline
Hans Heinrich is a household name in Germany when it comes to the training of young riders and young horses. If you go to any of warmup arena at the b...
Ingrid Klimke: Eventing legend
So, I wasn’t 100% sure to put this one up as a podcast or not because the quality isn’t great. It was done on Skype, which is not my favourite form of...
Judy Reynolds: Irish dressage superstar
Judy Reynolds is a German based, Irish Olympic dressage rider. She’s really been a quiet achiever, creeping up the world rankings and winning top leve...
Cathrine Dufour: Dressage Young Gun
This podcast we have Danish dressage star Cathrine Dufour. I caught up with Cathrine at the Europeans in Rotterdam where she and her “pony” as she lik...
Jessica Von Bredow Werndl: Her four legged children and perfecting the Grand Prix
Horses have been part of Jessica’s life from the very beginning, riding in her first big championships, the Bundeschampionate at age 12. By 16 she rod...
Laura Graves on Being the Best You Can Be
I love talking to Laura Graves. She’s articulate and thoughtful which makes for super answers and a great conversation and we’re lucky to have another...
Helen Langenhanenberg: Explaining to the Horse
German dressage rider Helen Langenhanenberg is as delightful to talk to as she is to watch ride. After Grand Prix successes with Responsible, she took...
Michael Jung: Eventing Superstar
Michael Jung needs no introduction. The eventing superstar won individual and team gold at the London Olympics and individual gold and team silver at...
Spencer Wilton: It Has To Look Easy
Although starting in the world of eventing, Spencer turned to dressage in his 20s. He’s won 13 national titles and with is partner in the arena Super...
Bettina Hoy on Fitness
Today’s interview is with German eventing legend Bettina Hoy! Bettina has competed at three Olympics and four WEGS and is still very active as a 3 and...
Therese Nilshagen: dressage with harmony
Swedish rider Therese Nilshagen is one of those lovely riders who just makes dressage look easy. At the time of making this podcast, Therese is ranked...
Dressage Star: Cathrine Dufour
I’m a big fan of Cathrine Dufour; she says it how she sees it, she’s down to earth and is really focused on her journey.
Cathrine was on...
Laura Graves: Learning From Horses
In this episode I interview the very funny US dressage star Laura Graves.
Laura burst onto the international dressage scene in 2014 at WEG in N...
Carl Hester's friend and protege: Vanessa Way
Honest, passionate and generous. These are words that apply to both Vanessa Way and her trainer, friend and mentor Carl Hester. Vanessa’s enthusiasm i...
Julia Krajewski: Germany's rising eventing star
Julia Krajewski has been quietly creeping up the German eventing ranks. The 29-year-old has successfully competed right through the levels from Pony c...
Allison Brock: American Dressage Olympic Medalist
Allison was part of the bronze medal winning US Olympic dressage team at Rio in 2016. Her story is amazing. She’s a “normal” person doing extraordinar...
Beatrice Buchwald: German Dressage Star
Today’s interview is with the lovely Beatrice Buchwald who I spoke to at last year’s Bundeschampionate. You’ve probably heard of the German dressage r...
Susanne Miesner: German dressage master on bits, principles and more..
Chris Hector and and Roz Neve chat to their friend and master German horsewoman Susanne Miesner. Susanne has been successfully training horses for ove...
RobertDover: America's dressage master
Robert Dover has been at the forefront of American dressage for over 30 years. He competed at every Olympics from 1984-2004 winning four team bronze a...