Achievement

Achievement

Shaping Lumps of Potential

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There is so much to learn, and what you learn after you think you know a lot is where it really starts to count. This is true for both medicine and riding.

It Takes A Village and 38 Years

Saapke: My Friesian

Mochi: The Horse That Built Me

A Brave Knight In Cowboy Country

Rider Medal Achievements

It Takes A Village and 38 Years

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An adult amateur from Region 1 shares her journey to earning her Diamond Achievement Award, and the horses and humans who made up her village along the way.
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Mochi: The Horse That Built Me

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A young adult and a reserved young Friesian invested in each other, and their deliberate and steady training program is paying dividends in and out of the ring.
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Sid Brought Me Back

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A rider from Region 2 shares how she couldn't leave horses in her past, leading her to jump back into the sport and find her draft cross partner, Obsidian.
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Mischief Managed

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A Region 1 rider tells us about the draft cross who stole her heart from the beginning, and how her goals have shaped their dressage - and eventing! - careers.
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Meet Suppenkasper, the “Rave Horse” Who Went Viral at the Olympics

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By Chelsey Burris The Olympics bring the world together to compete in top-level international sporting events.  Thousands of athletes from around the world participate, and...

Jacqueline Winspear’s Love for Horses Is No Mystery

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The acclaimed novelist is also a dressage rider and a lifelong horse lover By Patti Schofler When you’re reading a Maisie Dobbs mystery, something tells you...

American Dressage Legends: Gifted

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Meet the first horse inducted into the Roemer Foundation/USDF Hall of Fame   Reprinted from the September 2014 Issue of USDF Connection By Jennifer O. Bryant Name...

World Class

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As a rider, trainer, judge, and official, Linda Zang has forever expanded what’s possible in dressage By Natalie DeFee Mendik Reprinted from the November/December 2019 issue...

American Dressage Legends: E.G. Charles “Chuck” Grant

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Chuck Grant 1914-1990 Trainer of seventeen competitive Grand Prix horses, instructor and noted author, he introduced Dressage to the Midwest and inspired students for...

Ageless Pursuit

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My Journey to a USDF Gold Medal at age 67 By Dawn Metzger My name is Dawn. I am a 67-year-old semiretired small animal veterinarian. I...

Roemer Foundation/USDF Hall of Fame

Achievement

Carol Lavell – 2024 Roemer Foundation/USDF Hall of Fame Presentation

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USDF President George Williams posthumously inducts Carol Lavell into the Roemer Foundation/USDF Hall of Fame at the 2024 USDF Salute Gala & Annual Awards Banquet, held at the Adequan®/USDF Annual Convention in Houston, TX.

Bills Woods – 2024 USDF Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient

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Survival Guide: Fly Season

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The colder months may be gone, but now, the flies are here, and it’s our responsibility to be prepared to keep our horses comfortable.

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