Rider biographies
British Dressage selects riders to compete on the world stage at pony, junior, young rider, senior and para equestrian levels. Dressage is an Olympic and Paralympic sport with the next games taking place on home soil in London in 2012.
Biographies
Laura Bechtolsheimer is enjoying a phenomenal career, partnering her and her father’s 15 year old Michellino gelding Mistral Hojris to win team, individual and freestyle silver medals at the World Equestrian Games in Kentucky and a team silver and individual bronze medal at the Alltech FEI European Dressage Championships 2009 - the best British performance at a European Championship for 16 years.
The partnership set new heights by becoming the first ever British dressage rider to score over 80% and together they hold the British International grand prix record in all three classes – the grand prix, the grand prix special and the grand prix freestyle. Read more in Laura’s official BD biography here.
Find out about our most successful dressage riders: their road to success, whether they are superstitious, what their favourite tipple is and much more. For the low-down on the top riders in the British Dressage Grand Prix rankings, click on their names below to view their official BD biographies:
| Emma Hindle | updated July 2009 | |
| Carl Hester | updated October 2010 | |
| updated October 2010 | ||
| Maria Eilberg | updated October 2010 | |
| Fiona Bigwood | updated October 2010 | |
| Richard Davison | updated November 2010 | |
| Steph Croxford | updated December 2009 | |
| Michael Eilberg | updated August 2010 | |
| Judy Harvey | updated October 2009 | |
| Nicola Buchanan | updated September 2010 | |
| Emile Faurie | updated August 2011 | |
| Charlotte Dujardin | updated August 2011 |
Read about the amazing life stories of Britain’s top paralympic riders. They are members of the Paralympic World Class Performance Programme (WCPP) squad from which the team members are selected to represent Britain. Click the names and be inspired:
Click to view rider biographies:
| Sophie Christiansen MBE | updated August 2011 | |
| Deb Criddle | updated August 2011 | |
| Anne Dunham MBE | updated August 2011 | |
| Lee Pearson CBE | updated November 2010 | |
| Ricky Balshaw | updated November 2010 | |
| Jo Pitt | updated January 2011 | |
| Simon Laurens | updated August 2009 | |
| Natasha Baker | updated August 2011 | |
| Sophie Wells | updated August 2011 | |
| Emma Sheardown | updated August 2011 |








