Articles by Patricia Lasko - Dressage Today

Patricia Lasko

Premier Equestrian horse and footing at Steffen Peters Farm, California Credit Premier Equestrian

Researchers and footing providers tell stories that reflect the current state of arena footing.

Amid the coffee beans, sugar cane and palms, the landscape is idyllic.

Breeds/Breeding

Patricia Lasko sets out for the wilds of Brazil to find out more about the Lusitano.

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Therapeutic Riding

Learn more about a unique program that uses horses and dressage to help autistic children.

Credit: courtesy, The Spanish Riding School Visitors observe a quadrille at the SRS’s baroque Winter Riding School.

International Travel

An interview with Elisabeth Guertler

Dressage Today Editor Patricia Lasko rescued these 2-year-old PMU fillies--half Thoroughbred and half Quarter Horse--from a certain trip to the slaughterhouse. |

The history of horses from the pregnant-mare-urine industry is a strange mix of needs, but the mares' offspring are an unexpected resource for budget-minded dressage riders.

Learn how to create an exciting lower-level dressage musical freestyle.

Quarter Horse rider and trainer Lynn Palm has led a life with horses based on dressage.