Wow. Imagine breeding and training your own Olympic dressage horse from scratch. And then making the team at the very last minute. Yowza.
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What a cool article! Thanks for sharing.
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I read that one, too. I enjoyed it. I love how the horse is “5 and a half feet tall”. 
I’m a new fan of Ms. Moody and hope she does well.
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Great article. Thanks for sharing it.
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Ditto.
I went down a little YouTube rabbit hole following the links in that article, and I ended up watching a 10 minute profile of her where they interviewed her and her sister and her parents at their farm. They seem to have a very tight and supportive family. Good for them.
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Do you have a link? 
I’d like to read/see more. Thanks!
It looks like it was produced by one of her sponsors, but it’s still an interesting look at her story.
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Thank you!!
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You’re welcome.
Great video. I like her even more now. And Jagerbomb…what a nice horse. He looks like such a good boy, the type someone like me would love to ride. 
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Wonderful article! Don’t read the comments unless you want to get your own cortisol levels rising. 
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Oh, no. No, no. I never read the comments. Lol.
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Great article! I love that she turned down 2 million euros or something like that for the sale.
Great videos and, ummm, can I have her barn?
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After watching her Olympic performance, I have to wonder how Carl Hester beat her out of a spot on the team. Was his horse differently presented at previous shows? Moody’s horse was a better mover, trained and presented tons better. Just gotta go hmmm.
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Experience. Becky’s never been on a team, Carl has been to 6 prior Olympics and multiple international championships.
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Didn’t help him get his horse over the topline or not looking strangled by the contact. Ok, part of it is the horse’s conformation but still. The kid gotta start somewhere and she showed her and her horse can handle it.
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Well, dang. Just stumbled upon a vid of Moody training an apprentice in her barn. There is nothing inherently awful about the session, except that the horse is behind the vertical for most of the work (NOT RK, just btv). Rider is never corrected or what I consider an issue addressed. Also, the rider is wearing long spurs and they dig into the horse’s flanks with every step of trot. What happened to spurs were meant for collection, not forward? This horse is not doing collected work. It is in a simple snaffle. The work is fair and simple training. But dang. Just dang.
Watched another one with more advanced horse and in canter stretch after work she corrects rider to push horse out so nose out and down for stretch, not in and curled. Nice to see.
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And here you are rendering judgement on her for one lesson one a horse you know nothing about and a rider you know nothing about. Teachers address the problems they can in the lesson.
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I agree, but the problem here is that those comments mostly coming from uneducated people are beginning to have influence on the general public and their opinions on high level dressage. The articles on blue tongues and whipping are being published its seems on a daily basis…
Unrelated to the recent turn of the conversation, which I do not intend to touch with a 10 foot pole.
I usually take the New York Times news quiz online every week. Some weeks I do better than others, depending on how engrossed I am in my own little world rather than the news of the day.
But I did actually know the answer to this question, as did 90% of the other Times readers who took the quiz. That surprised me a little bit.
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