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Hanoverian horse during a dressage test

Watch: The marching walk in dressage

Watch: A two-beat trot in dressage

Watch: A three-beat canter in dressage

Watch: The four-beat racing gallop

Watch: A full pirouette in dressage

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Henri St. Cyr (centre), winner of the gold medal in the individual dressage event, riding around the stadium in Stockholm, where the equestrian events for the 1956 Melbourne Olympics were held

Henri Saint Cyr

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Charles Ferdinand Pahud de Mortanges

Dutch athlete

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