Catherine Henriquet

Always riding at top level she won the gold medal at the French Dressage championship in 2013 with Paradies Zauber. Catherine's late husband, Michel Henriquet, is one of Nuno Oliveira's main students and friends. Together, the three sustained a lifelong friendship and contributed to each other works, thoughts and riding. Today, Catherine Henriquet is one of the greatest specialists of classical dressage, as well as, young horse ground work training. She carries the legacy of late master Michel Henriquet and late master Nuno Oliveira. She brought the French dressage tradition (or Versailles school of dressage) to the international show ring and remains the most successful rider of that tradition so far. She has considerable knowledge of all the old dressage masters writings and is dedicated to sharing what she has learned in a dressage career spanning over three decades. When not at shows, or in the arena training her horses and students, Henriquet clinics with professionals all over Europe.

Catherine Durand Henriquet is a French dressage rider, trainer and writer born on April 9, 1955. She started riding when she was 12 years old and started showing dressage in 1988 aged 33 under the coaching and guidance of dressage master Michel Henriquet, a longtime friend and student of Nuno Oliveira. After riding in the individual dressage and team dressage at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona with Iberian horse Orphée, she was selected again to represent France in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta with Iberian horse Startacus. Unfortunately, Spartacus injured himself the day before the test and she had to withdraw. After retiring him, Catherine continued to be a FEI rider, riding at Grand Prix Dressage level horses that she trains herself.