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The Horse & Hound Podcast 174: Abi Lyle, Irish Olympic dressage rider

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    • On our 174th episode of The Horse & Hound Podcast, which is sponsored this month by Leader Equine, Horse & Hound’s dressage editor Oscar Williams chats to Irish Olympian Abi Lyle. They talk about the pressures of top-class competition, dreams of eventing and resilience following abuse

    Episode 174 of our popular audio service The Horse & Hound Podcast, which is sponsored this month by Leader Equine, is now live and features Irish Olympic dressage rider Abi Lyle, who was announced as our Inspiration of the Year at last year’s H&H Awards.

    Each episode is available for H&H fans to listen to via your favourite podcast app, as well as here on the website. Search for “The Horse & Hound Podcast” in your preferred podcast app and click subscribe to be notified about each new episode.

    On this episode, H&H’s dressage editor Oscar Williams caught up with Abi to talk about finding her rhythm after being out with injury and enjoying her return to competition.

    “By the time the year ended, I was in a really bad place mentally. It wasn’t even that I didn’t want to do it – I felt I couldn’t. People said, ‘You’re so lucky, it’s a privilege to have two grand prix horses,’ but I just thought: they don’t care. They don’t care if they don’t go to the Europeans – they’ll still get the same level of care and attention. I knew I needed time to enjoy it again.” – Abi on choosing to step back from international competition

    Abi also talks to Oscar about her dreams of eventing – and the welcoming eventing community – what she’d change about dressage, how she warms up at competitions and how she’s learning to recognise her own resilience after surviving an abusive relationship.

    Horse & Hound Podcast: episode 174

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