Olympic dressage rider Becky Moody shared her calm and methodical training techniques at Your Horse Live 2025, demonstrating with her eight-year-old mare Magic Dream (“Shroom”) and stable rider Anna Burns’ four-year-old gelding Raver. Becky emphasized the importance of rhythm, suppleness, and adjustability across the walk, trot, and canter, highlighting fundamental training principles such as transitions, collection without slowing down, and maintaining correct bend and alignment. She also discussed the value of exercises like shoulder-fore, travers, leg-yielding along the wall (“head on the boards”), and flying changes on a circle to develop gymnastic suppleness and precision.

Throughout the session, Becky illustrated how she builds self-carriage and responsiveness, focusing on subtle adjustments in rhythm and frame rather than speed reduction. She stressed the significance of corners in dressage tests as key moments for setting up movements and making corrections. Her approach balances technical detail with horse comfort, aiming for a relaxed yet engaged performance, as seen in her work progressing Shroom to championship success and developing young Raver’s confidence and strength.