Fancy Prancing Dressage Mug – Equestrian Gifts

Dressage is the art of making something extremely difficult look like the horse thought of it. Riders call it harmony. Everyone else calls it fancy prancing.

This mug sides with everyone else, respectfully, and in a top hat.

Equestrian Gifts for the Dressage Devoted

The artwork is drawn like an old Victorian engraving, all fine black cross-hatching. A very dignified horse looks down his nose in profile, mane in neat plaits, wearing a silk top hat, a monocle on a chain and a crisp bow tie.

Below, “FANCY PRANCING” is set in elegant serif capitals with a small flourish. It is black ink only, so it looks sharp on white.

Sixty-Eight Per Cent and Proud

Only a dressage rider understands the joy of a seven for a halt, or the despair of a judge’s comment that simply reads “tense”. They will school the same twenty-metre circle for a decade and call it fun.

This horse gets it. He has never had a bad centre line in his life, or so he will tell you.

Mug Details

• Clean white ceramic that suits the black engraving style
• Takes 11oz, about 325mL, of post-test tea
• Goes through the dishwasher and into the microwave without complaint
• Printed in Australia in crisp black ink
• Presented in a white gift box

Who Should Get This Mug?

• Dressage riders at any level, from prep to Grand Prix
• Coaches who say “more inside leg” in their sleep
• Show mums and dads who have learned to plait under pressure
• Eventers who privately quite enjoy the dressage phase

Among equestrian gifts it is a smart pick for a birthday, a club prize or an end-of-season thank-you for a coach or a judge.

More From the Mug Face Stable

Not a dressage household? Our other horse mugs include a brumby, a racehorse and a pony who will do anything for a carrot.

Order this distinguished gentleman and Mug Face will print him and post him anywhere in Australia.