Tressa BouldenClassical Dressage & Horsemanship
A rider on a black horse in collection in front of the arena mirror, reflection visible

Photo gallery

Grace served with muscle.

"Here, where grace is served with muscle and strength by gentleness confined, he serves without servility; he has fought without enmity." Ronald Duncan, The Horse, 1954.

An ex-racehorse in trot under saddle, backlit in an outdoor arena
Ex-racehorse
A rider in show attire holding a blue ribbon beside a black Friesian, Hendrik
Hendrik's Blue Ribbon
A chestnut ex-racehorse learning piaffe in-hand with a handler
Ex-racehorse Learning Piaffe
A grey horse stretching forward and down in trot in an outdoor arena
Tressa Boulden riding a black Friesian in a collected trot in an outdoor arena
A Lipizzaner stallion in collected trot in an outdoor arena
Lipizzaner Stallion
Tressa Boulden riding her bay mare Allura beneath the trees
Tressa's Lovely Mare "Allura"
A rider on a black horse in a moment of collection outdoors
A rider on a grey horse in trot on a foggy morning
Andalusian
Melissa Simms riding a grey horse toward the arena mirrors at the Reitinstitut
A rider in show whites beside Johan, a black Friesian, with a ribbon
Johan in the blues
A grey stallion worked in-hand in a historic riding hall with a flag on the wall
A grey horse in extended trot at a dressage show
Paloma David mounted on a black horse with Tressa Boulden standing beside
A rider in a black coat on a grey horse in collected canter in a covered arena
Lipizzaner Stallion
Portrait of Tressa Boulden standing beside a tacked grey horse
A black horse in working trot under saddle, captured with motion blur
Tressa Boulden working a white horse in hand on a tree-lined outdoor track
A grey horse and rider in show attire performing a dressage test
A bay horse in canter under saddle, rider in white, in a sand arena
A white horse and rider halted in a classical riding hall
A rider trotting a black Friesian past a red barn on a sunny autumn day
A grey horse in trot under saddle beside a white arena fence
A bay horse in trot under saddle beneath a covered arena roof
A light grey horse in canter under saddle in an outdoor arena
A dark horse walking under saddle past the barn
A grey horse in working trot under saddle in an outdoor arena
A pinto horse in trot under saddle in an outdoor arena
A bay horse in working trot under saddle in a tree-lined outdoor arena
A grey horse in trot under saddle beside flowering spring shrubs
A rider on a grey horse moving through tall golden grass on a hillside
A rider on a dark horse working on the lunge with Tressa Boulden
A bay horse worked from the ground in a sand arena

There is nothing so powerful, nothing less violent. There is nothing so quick, nothing more patient.

Ronald Duncan, "The Horse", 1954