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Håller precis nu på att läsa Chris Bartle´s bok "Training the sport horse".

Chris Bartle är fälttävlansryttaren som även tävlat OS i dressyr - fram till OS 2012 var han Englands mest meriterade dressyrryttare med en 6e plats på OS i Los Angeles 1984. Han red då Wily Trout, en omskolad fälttävlanshäst. Numera är han bl.a tränare för Tysklands fälttävlanslandslag.

Har inte hunnit läsa så långt i ovanstående bok men kan redan nu rekommendera den! Den innehåller allt ifrån anatomi, rörelsemekanik till träning i såväl dressyr, hoppning som fälttävlan. Ska försöka återkomma längre fram med mer regelrätt recension av boken. :-)

Här nedan följer ett utdrag ur Wikipedia om Chris meriter som ryttare:

Dressage

Most notably while preparing for the 76' Burghley Horse Trials his horse picked up a tendon injury that forced the horse into retirement from eventing. But as one door closed another opened, and the same horse showed potential in Dressage. 1 year later he was competing at the World Championships as an individual. That horse was Wily Trout. The combination went on to become part of the British Dressage Team from 1981-1987. In this time he competed at the 84' Summer Olympics in Los Angeles for the British team. The team came 8th, but Chris Bartle tied for 6th in the individual event to make history by becoming the highest placed Brit. A record he still holds to this day (As of January 2011). Chris and Wily Trout's last major contribution in dressage came when they was second placed at the first Dressage World Cup Final in 's-Hertogenbosch 1986. This period was capped off when he was awarded the British Equestrian Federation's Medal of Honour in 1986.

Three Day Eventing

Bartle then took the opportunity to turn back to eventing and had a whole host of successes which included winning team Gold at the 1997 European Championships with the British Event Team, before winning the prestigious Badminton Horse Trials in 1998, on his horse Word Perfect II.^[3] He also travelled with Word Perfect to the Sydney Olympics in 2000, as reserve.