FEI five-star eventing ground jury member Jane Hamlin shares a lesson confirming Intermediate-level eventing dressage skills. She offers insight into what a judge looks for in the test. She also includes a combination of exercises—including shoulder-in to 10-meter circles to shoulder-in to haunches-in; half-pass; and three-loop serpentines with no change of lead—to develop better connection and quickness from behind.
Jane is an active event and dressage rider, trainer and coach based at Pirouette Farm in Norwich, Vermont. Her positive attitude and emphasis on teaching good basics has produced successful riders at the beginning level through the Olympic level. She also is an FEI international five-star eventing judge and a USEF national dressage and eventing judge. She was a member of the ground jury at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics and the 2018 World Equestrian Games and president of the ground jury at the 2019 Pan American Games. She also has been a ground jury member at the five-star competitions at the Badminton Horse Trials, the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event and the Adelaide Equestrian Festival.
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