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    Ruth Chappell Founder of Dressage Anywhere

    Mar 03, 2022 4 minutes

    Ruth Chappell is the co-founder/co-owner of Dressage Anywhere, the online dressage competition and training website. She owns two veteran horses and is training for a half marathon.

    My job…

    I run all of the day-to-day activities for Dressage Anywhere, so I’m the person at the end of the phone and email, and I organise and manage our monthly online dressage competitions. I also wear lots of other ‘hats’ — from marketing manager, to designer and copywriter.

    I started Dressage Anywhere with two other people 12 years ago after struggling to get to competitions with my own horse and realising that through the power

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