Leonie Marshall has been involved with riding, teaching, training and judging dressage horses for over four decades. She has trained a number of horses to Advanced standard, was an international dressage rider and is now a List 1 judge. The author represented Great Britain on a horse she trained herself and many other equine pupils competed internationally including a horse ridden by her husband, Barry, in a World Championship. Leonie Marshall was one of the original 10 British trainers travelling Europe on the Elizabeth Joicey trainers scheme and has since written several books on dressage.