Ágoston Endrődy

Ágoston Endrődy was a military officer who graduated as an artillery officer in 1924 and a military riding teacher in 1928. The institution operating in Örkénytábor not only trained Army riding teachers, but also was the Hungarian Olympic team camp. He obtained his riding teacher qualification in 1931 and rode in Örkénytábor until 1940. Endrődy competed mainly in show jumping, but achieved bigger successes in eventing. In 1935 he won the Hungarian championship title and finished fifth individually at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

During World War II. Endrődy was captured by the Soviets and only returned to Hungary in 1948. He was discharged from the Army and then defected to Great Britain in 1951, where he worked first as a rider, then as a racer, and finally as a coach. The culmination of his professional career was winning a gold medal with the British national team as a coach at the 1956 Stockholm Equestrian Olympics. In 1959, he wrote his book „Give Your Horse a Chance” in England, one of the most outstanding works in the international horse literature.