Welcome to Horse Illustrated’s Webinar Series! For our March 2026 installment, we were honored to welcome Debbie McDonald, Olympic dressage rider and longtime dressage coach.

Thank you to Holly and everyone who attended our live webinar on March 20. If you missed it, you’re in luck—you can view the full video now, below (we recommend expanding to full screen).

About Debbie McDonald

Debbie McDonald was an important catalyst in U.S. Dressage’s early success as a result of her accomplishments with her Hanoverian mare Brentina. Together, Debbie and Brentina won the 1999 Pan American Games team and individual gold medal, an Athens 2004 Olympic team bronze medal, a World Equestrian Games 2002 team silver and 2006 team bronze medal, and became the first American to win a FEI World Cup Dressage Final in 2003. Debbie then went on to have a very influential coaching career. She spent more than a decade advancing athlete-and-horse combinations through the U.S. dressage pipeline, guiding three of her athletes and their horses to the Olympics.

View previous episodes of Horse Illustrated’s Webinar Series here.