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HUGE congratulations to Charlotte Dujardin who broke the World Record for a Grand Prix Special score with 88.022% riding Valegro at the CDI Hagen. What was even better than Charlotte’s fabulous score was that she was wearing a helmet!!! Charlotte is sponsored by Charles Owen.
Very pleased to report that two equestrians we are proud to call friends Reese Koffler-Stanfield and Isabelle Brown, who are avid supporters of the Riders4Helmets campaign, were wearing helmets at a recent Conrad Schumacher clinic. Mr. Schumacher is one of the leading dressage trainers in the world and I am sure the helmets made an [...]
“I am a Dressage trainer who has started barrel racing this mare because she didn’t want to be a Dressage horse. Rather than force her to do something she didn’t want to do, and rather than sell her, I thought I’d try something new, and she is LOVING the barrel racing! And so am I! [...]
Charles Owen, the leading manufacturer in equestrian helmet safety are delighted to welcome British dressage rider Charlotte Dujardin to their family of leading International riders. Charlotte and Valegro recently produced impressive scores at the World Dressage Masters in Wellington, Florida in January, finishing second overall behind Steffen Peters and Ravel. The American crowds were wowed [...]
Thank you to Ken Braddick www.dressage-news.com for allowing us to republish this article and for supporting the riders4helmets campaign. FRANKFURT, Germany, Dec. 18–The inevitable march to safety helmets for riders at all levels of the sport took a major step forward at the International Festhallen when Germany’s Isabell Werth competed with not one but two different [...]
The following article is republished with the kind permission of Eurodressage. We greatly appreciate their support of the riders4helmets campaign, visit their website at www.eurodressage.com. Also, special thanks to Julia Rau for permission to use her photograph of Isabell. Visit her website at www.rauphoto.de. The 2011 CDI-W Frankfurt kicked off today with the warm up [...]
The new USEF helmet rule for dressage riders came into effect March 1st so we thought we would take a look at the various helmets that are suitable for dressage that are on the market. If there are any you think would make great helmets for dressage that we have missed please leave a comment [...]
A good friend gave me this card (see image below) back in 2010 when the Riders4Helmets campaign was still finding its feet and we were wondering if it would be successful in encouraging riders to wear helmets. We want to dedicate this post to all of the equestrians, retailers, riders who have suffered a TBI, [...]
