The Dressage Chronicles by Karen McGoldrick

It features 12 of Karen’s non-fiction essays on training and riding, and 15 beautiful photos from the European dressage scene taken by Italian photographer Selene Scarsi.Ĭheck out the novel, and the journal at Note from Bossmare: Be sure to buy the book from the website before you go running to Amazon, the writer gets more of the profit this way. She is a United States Dressage Federation certified instructor/ trainer earned her USDF Bronze, Silver, and Gold medal rider awards, all on horses she trained. The training journal is called Your Dressage Chronicles. Karen has also produced a rider’s training journal, which makes an especially nice gift. She plans to publish three more novels in this series. You will find plenty of humor, lots of stress and strain, and the inevitable heartbreaks that come with the territory.Īll of the dozens of reviews on Karen’s work are five-star. Not only that, but Karen writes in a style that is clear and unpretentious. And men and romance, while not absent, always take the back seat to the real stars here, the horses and the training. You won’t find any of those jarring moments that you find in other so-called “horsey” novels where the horses do un-horse-like things. The horses and riders, while not exactly identifiable, are real enough. This book would make a great gift for any horse person.”Karen gets the details right. “I felt like I was back in Wellington for season. “I loved it and have passed it around to all my working students and clients for a fun and entertaining read.” Reese told me. I had so much fun reading this book when I had my RV in Lexington at Reese Koffler-Stanfieled’s Maplecrest Farm, and then I passed it onto her. Do you scrap cooking dinner and order take-out, forget about paying bills one more day, and ignore the tumbleweeds of dog hair that are drifting across the kitchen floor? Of course you do! Reading Karen McGoldrick’s novel about the life of a working student at a famous dressage trainer’s fancy digs in south Florida is just way too much fun to put aside. When you start reading The Dressage Chronicles you will find yourself faced with a dilemma. With the busy Dressage 2012 year about to launch, have we got a fun treat for our readers, and a perfect Christmas gift for anyone remotely associated with Dressage.

The Dressage Chronicles by Karen McGoldrick