Love At First Step: Charlotte Dujardin Puts a Spring in her Horses' Stride with Innovative Flooring

Some athletic achievements are helped along with the latest high-tech advancements. Olympic swimmers shave time with second-skin suits. Skiers get faster skies. Ultra-light tennis rackets parlay the power of an opponent's shot into a winning return.

There's no shortage of technological advances supporting equestrian accomplishments. However, the woman who's accomplished the latest of those in the dressage world does so with the simplest, most old-fashioned strategy.

"We let horses be horses," says Charlotte Dujardin, MBE, the Olympic, World Equestrian Games and World Cup champion. "Our horses get the very best of care, but we don't really do anything too special or out of the ordinary."

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