Achievement

Here, a rider from Region 9 shares how her dream to adopt a mustang turned into an opportunity to climb the dressage ladder.

Here, a rider from Region 7 shares how she ended up with the exact horse she wasn’t looking for, but also how she wouldn’t have it any other way!

This year, I’ve been patiently standing in the wash rack with hose in hand, watching for this horse’s eyes to soften before I spray. This year, I’ve been grabbing a fistful of chestnut mane as we venture outside of the arena. This year, I’ve been gaining the trust of a horse who has every reason not to trust anymore.

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.

Reprinted from the October 2014 USDF Connection magazine. To say that Col. Donald W. Thackeray is a Roemer Foundation/USDF Hall of Fame inductee is to...

Gifted and Keen were the first two horses to be inducted into the Roemer Foundation/USDF Hall of Fame. They were inducted in 1997. Gifted, 1980-1997,...

By Suzanne Roantree Krauss Today, I got a really fun envelope from USDF!  It was stuffed with Rider Performance Certificates with my name on each one....

A rider from Region 7 tells us about her once-in-a-lifetime Lusitano stallion, Xerez, who carried her up the levels, earning many accolades along the way!

In this story, a rider from Region 4 shares how the challenges of aging never diminished her passion for horses, riding, or competing.

USDF Region 2 rider, Lynne S. shares the story of her homebred Thoroughbred gelding, with whom she and her granddaughter competed together.