One of the most influential riders/trainers in the world and current President of the International Dressage Riders Club, Kyra Kyrklund participated in 1967 in her first jumping competition, the Nordic Cup in Lahti, Finland. After winning two classes, the chef d'equipe of the Finnish team asked if she and the horse, called Dragon, would like to join the team. With Kyra on the team, Finland won the Nordic cup and individually she was placed second

Two years later, Kyra's parents bought her first horse, Kasper. That same year, Kyra participated in three differentFinnish junior championships. She won the dressage competition, was second in the eventing and fourth in the jumping - all with Kasper. Kyra was a student at the Strömsholm Riding Academy in Sweden and then moved on to training in Germany with Walter Christensen and Herbert Rehbein. This gave her a rounded appreciation of their training techniques. Kyra has developed a system of training horses that combines the core elements of the German and Swedish systems with her own, unique, techniques. The system has been applied to many different horse and rider combinations with great success.

Now Kyra is a world-class trainer and rider and gives a lot of demonstrations and clinics all over the world. Few riders in the world have managed to train and successfully compete so many different horses in international Grand Prix dressage. Kyra has obtained this exceptional result fourteen times, with Piccolo, Nör, Matador, Ramon Navaro, Edinburg, Vancouver, Flyinge Amiral, Midt-West Ibi-Light, Dakar, Patrick of Finland, Master, Asterix, Lillemarkens Arkibal and Max. As a trainer she recently coached the Portuguese team and is now involved in the preparation for the Olympic games of the Swedish team.