Dressage Star: Cathrine Dufour

I’m a big fan of Cathrine Dufour; she says it how she sees it, she’s down to earth and is really focused on her journey. Cathrine was on the Danish National Juniors team at the age of 11 and was going to give up riding at the end of Young Riders so she could go to Uni and party! But as we know, she kept going with the horses and is one of the top riders in the world today, representing her country with her partner in crime, Cassidy at Olympics and Europeans and very often ending up on the podium. Cathrine talks about her “crazy” Cassidy, why she bought him and what’s his biggest fear. She talks about her fitness work and why she does it, what she takes from other sports and why sports psychology is so important to her. What a normal training session involves, why Isabell Werth is so inspiring and also the difference between the new kids on the block and the grown ups of the current dressage scene….and what’s the awesome exercise that she learnt from Charlotte?! Cathrine is huge on social media and she talks about why she shares so much about her training and the day to day running of her barn. She’s a good egg! I caught up with Cathrine at Aachen earlier this year. For the transcribed interview with fabulous photos, go to the link: http://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/2018/08/cathrine-dufour-bubbles-her-way-to-the-top/