Dressage as a sport is growing rapidly.

Many countries throughout the world are interested in training and competing as all levels, even at the highest. Therefore, it is important that all of us involved in the sport think and speak the same technical language and have the same foundation of basic principles.

This FEI Dressage Handbook is part of the globalisation policy of the FEI and will certainly improve the communcation related to judging, riding and training (extract from the Introduction of the Dressage Handbook)