About the Authors

Ellen Eckstein, of Templeton California, is a Grand Prix dressage rider who has been teaching and training extensively for 35 years. She holds the USDF Gold and Silver Medals which are earned at the FEI (International) levels. Her professional life has been dedicated to successfully integrating the simple, yet profound concepts that she learned from her 30 year mentor/student relationship with the legendary horseman Tom Dorrance and with the European, classical and competitive dressage system in which she has continually immersed herself.

Betty Staley has a varied and lifelong background with horses. Strongly influenced by Ray Hunt and Buck Brannaman, Betty is focused on being an all around horsewoman. Raising and starting her homebred horses, she enjoys the process from beginning to end, developing highly functional ranch horses and advancing her horses (flying changes, canter pirouettes, piaffe –passage, etc.).