Hosted by Haras de Vess Stables, Wichita, Kansas, July 27-28, 2024
Meet breeders, judges, owners, and dressage sport horse enthusiasts, and learn how the experts evaluate dressage prospects and breeding stock
Are you looking to buy or breed your own dressage prospect? Curious to see how judges evaluate conformation and movement in modern day sport horses? Would you like to explore the possibility of becoming a Dressage Sport Horse Breed Judge?
Join us at the USDF Sport Horse Seminar for answers to these questions, and more. This seminar will feature three highly esteemed Registered Dressage Sport Horse Breeding Judges as your instructors: world renowned Olympian and USEF ‘S’ judge Hilda Gurney, FEI L3/4* Dressage Judge Kristi Wysocki, and USEF ‘S’ Judge Gwen Ka’awaloa. These three individuals have over 125 combined years of breeding experience and expertise between them.
The weekend will include both classroom presentations and live evaluations of top quality, purpose bred, Dressage Sport Horses.
Here are five reasons you should register now:
From form to function, angles and ratios are important! Study the ideal geometry of conformation of the dressage horse and how it relates to the movement of the horse. Learn how dressage sport horse judges quickly evaluate horses of all types, from leggy foals to powerful performance horses. Learn to recognize conformation faults, and determine which faults are likely to affect soundness, movement, and/or performance of dressage horses, versus faults that are considered merely blemishes.
Are you thinking of breeding your special mare? How can you evaluate her potential as a broodmare, and find a stallion to complement her? Do you think you should keep your young colt a stallion, but aren’t sure what makes a good stallion? Are you interested in buying a dressage prospect and bringing it up the levels? How can you recognize a quality young dressage prospect? This seminar will offer considerable insight into how to evaluate both dressage prospects and dressage breeding stock.
USDF Dressage Sport Horse Breeding shows are a marvelous way to introduce young horses to the show environment. Showing young horses is also a great way to network with other breeders, and showcase your breeding program. Benefits of participating in the ProElite/USDF Breeders Championship Series competitions will be discussed at the seminar, along with discussions of the overall USDF Breeders Championship Series program. Judging methodology to evaluate both conformation and movement are discussed in detail.
If you are interested in competing at USDF Dressage Sport Horse Breeding shows, or possibly becoming a Dressage Sport Horse Breeding Judge, you need to know the rules for the program. This seminar will touch on the basic rules, and introduce the various classes offered and the scoresheets that are used.
Put all your learning to use! After a morning of classroom work and a catered lunch at the host hotel, you will head out to apply what you’ve learned by evaluating demonstration horses. You will see mares and foals, yearlings, two- and three-year-old youngsters, and stallions. The horse evaluation sessions will include both in-hand and under saddle (Materiale).
Register here by July 15, 2024; $350 per person
For more information contact Bonnie Barr-Briggs at (859) 971-7360
