The Defender K3DE5*—by Jesse Kassner🇺🇸/🇬🇧Editor DressurSPORT.com, Grand Prix Classicist
What a fantastic 5 days we had! The drive down from Wisconsin to Kentucky was a long one, but it
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What a fantastic 5 days we had! The drive down from Wisconsin to Kentucky was a long one, but it was certainly worth it. The weather was quite nice, aside from being in the upper 80°F with full sun the entire weekend. The horses were primed and ready to go...
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This was my third trip to Lexington. I have enjoyed all of them, but this one was by far the best. While I was in Law School at UW Madison, I took an independent research class dealing with a bill before the Wisconsin Legislature creating laws and rules for industrialized..
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Vermiculus, otherwise known as “Bug” had a fantastic official retirement ceremony between the show jumping break at the 2026 Defender Kentucky 3 Day CCI4*/5* Event at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, KY. He came cantering into the Rolex Stadium with a few hops, skips, and rears, showing that a..
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You know that moment you’ve climbed the mounting block and look at your left stirrup, lift your left foot to put it in that stirrup, and slightly pause as you gather yourself to put weight into that stirrup before swinging your right leg over the saddle? What are you thinking..
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Good training promotes soundness and longevity in the horse, bad training does not. A lot of things are taught to riders without the explanation of why. Why do riders ask the horse to “Go on the Bit?” ❓Why do riders ask the horse to “lift its back?” ✅ Is it..
What a fantastic 5 days we had! The drive down from Wisconsin to Kentucky was a long one, but it
US Equestrian News noted that applications for competitors in the USEF Western Dressage Seat Medal Final application are due on
What a fantastic 5 days we had! The drive down from Wisconsin to Kentucky was a long one, but it..
Region X Arabian Championships, Oshkosh, Wisconsin🇺🇸at Sunnyview Exposition Center. We attended the closest Western Dressage show that we were able..
This was my third trip to Lexington. I have enjoyed all of them, but this one was by far the..
As riders, we’re all searching for better ways to communicate with our horses. We want to understand them more clearly,..
You know that moment you’ve climbed the mounting block and look at your left stirrup, lift your left foot to..
Good training promotes soundness and longevity in the horse, bad training does not. A lot of things are taught to..
A Comprehensive Guide to Hoof Health, Moisture Management, Therapeutic Treatments, and Show-Ring Presentation The old saying “No Foot, No Horse”..
Few diagnoses strike fear quite like kissing spine. The words alone can feel like a career-ending sentence. Suddenly, every resistance, every..
Horses are not tools or unfeeling in their existence, and horses are not all the same, they are individuals. Some..
Leather for saddlery comes from a relatively small group of animals whose hides provide the right combination of strength, fiber..
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Regardless of discipline, we all want happy, healthy horses. We educate ourselves on correct saddle fit to ensure that our..
Saddles are inherently impactful on horses’ moving bodies. Understanding basic horse biomechanics and restriction-eliminating saddle fit principles is especially important..
Horses can carry about one and a half pounds per square inch of their back, so the greater the space..
Controlled exercise is the foundation of any good training and rehabilitation programme (Gillis, 2014). When done correctly, lunging can be..
Dressage is supposed to make horses better. Stronger. More balanced. More rideable. Sounder for longer. That’s the whole point. Classical..
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This article lists, in chronolgical order, top level Classical Dressage, Western Dressage and Eventing competitions. Each listing is preceded by..
Low energy is a common problem in many horses. When your horse seems tired, dull, or unmotivated, it’s crucial to..
Training the Rider When You Can’t Ride—and Why It Matters For riders living in cold climates, winter presents a familiar..
Following is a chronological listing of links to websites for upcoming horse auctions and sales from around the world. We..
As a new year gets underway, I’m hearing more horse owners pause and ask questions like, “Where does my feed..
Horses are taught or trained by a simple conditioned reflex. A simple conditioned reflex is the automatic response to a..
Below are links to current calendars of the United States Dressage Federation, the United States Eventing Association and the Western Dressage Association of America, showing dates and locations for upcoming clinics, shows and events.
Each month, we are requesting results of competitions from the event organizers. We will provide a link to those results we have received. If you want to see results of an event in which you will be participating, be sure to tell the organizer to provide those results so we can include them in the next issue of DressurSPORT.com.
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Jesse Kassner began her riding career in 1984 and transitioned to dressage in the early 1990s, quickly dedicating herself to the development of classical fundamentals. She was asked to be an instructor at age 17 in 1994. After graduating from university, she founded JKK Dressur, LLC, in 1999, where she has since taught, trained, and sold horses throughout the region. Jesse further refined her expertise through extensive training with FEI competitors and classical dressage masters in the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany, ultimately riding Grand Prix horses across three countries.
Committed to lifelong learning, Jesse has trained with renowned dressage authorities including Col. Von Ziegner, Dr. HLM Van. Shaek, Catherine Haddad-Staller, Dominique Barbier, Paula and Michael Kierkegaard, ,Charles de Kunffy, Tom Poulin, and more. Her teaching emphasizes the training scale, biomechanics of horse and rider, and the development of true feel through correct fundamentals. Known for her keen eye and ability to connect horse and rider, Jesse is passionate about passing on the depth of knowledge she gained through decades of high-level training.
I am Jesse’s dad. I know only what a father with a daughter that is devoted to everything equestrian learns about horses by listening to and watching her. I clearly recognize that she has an extraordinary knowledge of horses and riders and how they work together. She also has a gift for communicating what she knows to others, both in words and graphically.
DressurSPORT.com is father-daughter effort to create an online forum and e-commerce program. Our goal is to make it a monthly resource and on-line gathering place for Dressage and Eventing enthusiasts to explore all things equestrian and to provide a forum for open discussion. Each issue will provide a link to the US Dressage Federation (USDF), the Western Dressage Association of America (WDAA) and US Eventing Association (USEA) calendars of upcoming clinics, shows and events. We will provide competition results, or links to those results, including top score sheets and photos and videos provided by the event organizers. Each month, we plan to select a video of a winning ride as the DressurSPORT.com RIDE OF THE MONTH, with a link to that video and score sheet for that ride. If an event is of interest to you, please contact the organizer to request that those results be provided.
We will also include New Product Reviews and articles by industry professionals covering topics like training and techniques for riders and their mounts, tack and saddle selection, fitting and maintenance, apparel, arena and course design, construction and maintenance and current equestrian news. Most importantly, we have provided a reader forum in which subscribers are able to interact with the author of our articles and other readers, or create entirely new topics for online discussion. If you would like to see an article on a particular topic, or if you want to submit an article for consideration, please contact us. The goal of this site is to stimulate and encourage online interaction within the equestrian community.
In our travels, we have observed that stores in the UK and the EU have substantially wider selections of top quality tack and equestrian gear than is available here in the US. Much of this tack is unavailable here in the statues. We are in the process of hand-selecting high quality tack and apparel, made by trained craftsman in the UK and the EU, and primarily only available in the UK and EU, that we intend to make available here in the near future. Recent substantial changes in import tariffs and upcoming rule changes are expected to be finalized some time this coming spring. Once that has stabilized, we will begin offering these products for sale in our e-store.
Finally, we are also working on the creation of a marketplace for our subscribers to offer their personal used tack or gear for sale or to indicate that they are looking to buy specific used tack or gear, and provide a means of establishing contact between buyers and sellers. We hope to have this program operational by the end of summer.
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