Winter 2025 - Training With Lendon Gray – Getting Deep Into Your Corners
From a folding chair in the corner of the arena, two-time U.S. Olympic Dressage veteran Lendon Gray patiently challenged her young D4K clinic riders: “Try and run me over.” The prospect of trampling their mentor blanched the blush from the cheeks of some already nervously forgetting to breathe while trotting the long side of the indoor arena at Riding Right Farm in upstate New York. She repeated, “Run. Me. Over.” It was a light-hearted command, intended to encourage riders to deepen their corners, but no one seemed to have gotten the memo that most horses will go to any lengths not to step on icky humans.
