FRS Dressage

09/07/2025

Our sweet girl has found her new home! A huge congratulations to her new family and trainer, this special girl has captivated our hearts and we are so excited to see the success she’ll bring to you! This mare was a KV Select Horse meaning she was sought, selected and vetted specifically to be a high representation of quality, health and suitability that KV Dressage brings to the American Dressage Market!

08/06/2025

About time!

🗞️LATEST NEWS 🗞️

Lets hope this serves as a warning to anyone who has a "win at all costs" attitude and no respect for horses!

CESAR PARRA SUSPENDED FOR 15 YEARS FOR HORSE ABUSE

In an outcome marking one of the most significant sanctions issued by the FEI Tribunal, a 15-year suspension has today been imposed against Dressage athlete Cesar Parra (USA) (FEI ID: 10000031), for actions violating the principles of horse welfare. Parra has also been fined CHF 15,000 and ordered to pay CHF 10,000 in legal costs.

A prominent figure in international equestrian sport, Parra has competed at the top level since 1998. He represented his native Colombia at the Pan American Games in 1999, the Olympic Games in Athens 2004, the FEI World Equestrian Games™ in 2002 and 2006, and the FEI World Cup™ Final in 2005. After switching nationalities in 2008, Parra went on to compete for the United States at the Pan American Games in 2011 and the FEI World Cup™ Final in 2014.

Parra has been provisionally suspended since 2 February 2024, when he was notified that he was under FEI investigation following reports of horse abuse submitted to US Equestrian.

US Equestrian had received multiple allegations along with numerous videos and photographs showing Parra engaging in abusive behaviour and training methods involving several horses.

The FEI, in coordination with US Equestrian, launched an immediate investigation into the allegations that Parra had repeatedly and deliberately subjected the majority, if not all, of the horses he owned and trained to recurring and serious abuse over a number of years.

The investigation involved a thorough review of extensive video and photographic material, as well as multiple witness statements.

On 22 May 2024, the FEI initiated formal disciplinary proceedings against Parra, bringing forward three charges: i) abuse of horse; ii) conduct that brings the FEI and/or equestrian sport and the FEI into disrepute; iii) breach of the FEI Code of Conduct on the Welfare of the Horse.

“This case is deeply unsettling, not only because of the recurring nature of the abuse, but also because of the number of horses affected,” FEI Legal Director Mikael Rentsch said.

“That such behaviour came from a top-level athlete makes it all the more troubling. Our athletes are expected to represent and uphold the highest standards of horsemanship. Horse welfare is the foundation, not an add-on, of equestrian sport.

“The investigation demanded significant time and resources due to the volume and complexity of the evidence, which had to be meticulously verified. The 15-year suspension sends a clear message that regardless of profile or position, those who violate the principles of horse welfare will face serious consequences.”

Parra is banned from taking part in any competition or event, or in any related activity under the jurisdiction of the FEI or any National Federation. He is also prohibited from training any FEI registered Athletes and/or FEI registered Horses. The provisional suspension already served will count towards the 15-year sanction, which will end on 1 February 2039.

The full reasoned decision will be published here in due course. Parties can appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) within 21 days of receipt of the full decision.

According to the FEI General Regulations (Article 164.6) during the period of a Suspension the Person, Horse and/or body suspended may take no part in any Competition or Event and/or in any activities related to any Competition or Event, as an Athlete, Support Personnel, Horse and/or Official or in the organisation of, any Competition or Event under the jurisdiction of the FEI or any Competition or Event under the jurisdiction of an NF in accordance with the Statutes or in any FEI and/or NF related activity (e.g. FEI courses, meetings, General Assembly etc.). For the avoidance of any doubt, training FEI Athletes and/or FEI Horses (whether at FEI Events or anywhere else) is to be considered as an FEI related activity. Persons are entitled to train their own Horses at their own facilities or at private facilities (i.e. not linked to any FEI or national Events/trainings’ facilities).

07/21/2025

"The best riders don't just ride – they study their horses and make the effort to understand them." - Ariat Athlete and 4x Olympian Boyd Martin

06/08/2025

05/21/2025

“Certainly we need great movers and powerful jumpers, but above all we need a partner, not a slave. We need horses who are supremely courageous, fiercely independent and phenomenally agile. Find such a horse and treasure him. Teach him that you will trust him with your life. Give him the education he will need, and then sit quietly while he does the job you have very skillfully and patiently taught him. He won’t let you down. We owe all this and more to our horses.” - Jim Wofford

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03/13/2025

You are far more capable than you could ever imagine. You were made perfectly as you are, for this time you are in, and if you really understood that, you would never limit or doubt yourself.

Every one of my horses, save for the 2 year old, have come from trouble. And I have to remind myself not to see them from that lens anymore, but to see them fresh daily- to see their remarkable resilience as they settle into their world, and inspire others with their confidence.

If I saw them for their past, they would be trapped in a life of fear, of insecurity and lameness and pain. While working with them, technique only goes so far if the belief isn’t there to let them out of the box they came in. At a certain point, you have to trust their ability, to let go of seeing them the way they were and believe in the way they can be.

- it’s important to remember how they were as a learning experience, but it’s not important for everyone who handles them to know what they used to do, and it’s not important as a descriptor of them. They are not their past, not their labels, not their old diagnosis. They are them, now.

Today we have more resources than ever before to help us understand how past experience shape us, and to understand conditions and diseases and ways of living that shape us. But these are not WHO we are, these are facts about us - these diagnostic tools are supposed to help us understand our experiences and ways of interacting in the world. Not to define or limit us forever. To give us tools to go on, to know why and how some things are how they are, and hopefully to give us a way to move forward.

“I can’t do ___ because ___” is one of the most unkind things we can say or think about ourselves. You have no idea just how much you can do. Maybe you have to do it in a different way to a different degree. Maybe it will take longer and look completely different. Our past history is filled with such people who against all odds achieved the unimaginable, in spite of their race, gender, handicap, position in life and so on.

Fortunately, horses do not speak our language, and do not tie themselves to all eternity to a label once given. We have more tools at our disposal for seeking help, but will struggle with the very human condition of seeking identity.

Will you let your limitations become your identity? Or will you go deeper, into who you truly are, what you were made to be, and find a way forward, around, over, under, or through, the challenges presented to you?

Photo by Caitlin Hatch

02/09/2024

“ Fear doesn’t stop death it stops Life.

Worry doesn’t stop tomorrow’s troubles it stops today’s peace . “
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02/08/2024

Dr. Reiner Klimke

"In horse riding dressage is nothing else than the horse's higher gymnastics and its careful training based on natural gait.
In no case do we want to make it a show object by educating artificial movements, but by systematic training of its facilities without force.
The properly trained dressage horse should move freely and uncompromised and in years of trustful work with its rider, grow together to a perfect unit.
It should radiate its entire personality and practice the various lessons with ease, joy and expression.

(Book:
Reiner Klimke: memories of a great rider and people)

01/27/2024

“You dream. You plan. You reach. There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, with belief, with confidence and trust in yourself and those around you, there are no limits.” —Michael Phelps

01/14/2024

Love my baby girl. Thank you Jessica Wisdom!