Catherine Henriquet Explained

Catherine Henriquet
Birth Date:9 April 1955
Birth Place:Casablanca, Marocco
Spouse:Michel Henriquet
Sport:Dressage

Catherine Durand-Henriquet is a French equestrian. She was twice selected for the Equestrian at the Summer Olympics. She brought the first Iberian horse to International and Olympic levels[1] and was also the first rider in the Versailles tradition to ever ride in the Olympic Games. She was national dressage champion multiple times. Together with her husband, famous equestrian and dressage master Michel Henriquet, she wrote a number of major dressage and horse training books and released a young horse training DVD series showing how the Henriquets take young horses from their first time under the saddle to the Grand Prix. Catherine Henriquet still actively shows Hanoverian horses and Lusitano horses at Grand Prix level and has trained dozens of horses to the Grand Prix. She currently rides two horses on the Big Tour: 18.7 hands Hanoverian gelding Lexus Gold and 15.7 hands Lusitano gelding Diabeau du Coussoul. Henriquet is also a retired dermatologist and always maintained professional practice while showing internationally. Having a full time profession aside from riding sometimes got in the way of being able to attend international shows and selections.

Early life and career

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 an FEI rider, riding at Grand Prix Dressage level horses that she trains herself.

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.

Show results

Notable horses

Notable books translated in English

Notable books in French

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Orphee RBO, Iberian Trail Blazer.
  2. Web site: Barcelona 1992 individual mixed Results . Olympics.com . 4 February 2022 . 6 October 2023.
  3. Web site: Barcelona 1992 equestrian dressage results. olympics.com. 6 October 2023.
  4. Web site: Catherine Henriquet's Carinho des Noes Passed Away.
  5. Web site: Olympedia – Orphée RBO.

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