PRANCING elegantly around an arena on a beautiful horse, it’s easy to see how three-time Olympic dressage gold medallist Charlotte Dujardin gained her glowing rep as "the girl on the dancing horse".

Perhaps the two most important letters are A (where the horse enters and exits) and X at the centre of the arena. Many riders spend their whole dressage career competing in a 20x40m arena ...

In dressage competitions, the horse and rider complete a series of ... There are 12 markers around the arena indicating the points at which the movements should begin and end.

A dressage rider explains how she and ... Moody uses an app to design her floor plan, a map of her horse’s movements around the arena, and tries to showcase drama and difficulty.

In dressage, a horse and rider perform a choreographed series ... A temporary outdoor arena, flanked by several constructed stands, will be set up on the Etoile Royale esplanade at the heart ...

Unlike their 17th-century counterparts, the Olympic horses will stay in temporary ... in addition to the jumping and dressage competition. The arena will be dismantled after the games conclude.

When competing in dressage, entering the arena with a whip is against the rules ... leading or lunging a Horse (lunge whip allowed), is allowed to use a whip (maximum one meter and twenty (1. ...