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Brett Parbery brings medal hope for Australia in Olympic dressage

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Adele Severs

Published 8 Mar 2018

Brett Parbery and DP Weltmieser.

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By Hillary Cassell

Australia’s current top ranking dressage rider Brett Parbery is hoping to make it to the World Equestrian Games in the North Carolina in September.

Dressage competition looks elegant but it requires long hours in the saddle to train half a tonne of horse to dance like a light-footed gazelle.

Australia has never won a medal in Olympic jumping or dressage events so the eyes of the Australian equestrian community will be on Parbery in the lead up to the summer Olympics in Tokyo in 2020.

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Brett Parbery and Terry Snow - © Ginette Snow

Brett Parbery and Terry Snow.

© Ginette Snow

Source: ABC Rural
 

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