Achievement

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.

From tending to COVID patients to volunteering in dressage, Nancy Bryant never shies away from a challenge By Kim MacMillan Reprinted from the March/April 2021 issue of USDF Connection magazine. While most of the world was hunkered...

By Jennifer M. Keeler When Kristin Werner accepted a part-time data entry job to make extra cash for college, she never dreamed that 20 years later not only would she still be with the same...

By Ellanor Beohning 2018 USDF Youth Convention Scholarship Winner The Adequan®/USDF Annual Convention was a wonderful experience! I would absolutely recommend applying for the 2019 Youth Scholarship. I learned so much about rule changes, proposals, and how to get...

Reprinted from the October 2017 USDF Connection magazine. Each year at the FEI North American Junior and Young Rider Championships dressage competition, the overall highest-scoring young rider is presented with a trophy, called “Pursuit of Excellence” and...

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

By Jody Swimmer: My George would do anything for me. We did it and he does not ever have to do another pirouette again. I would do anything for him.

USDF’s 2019 Youth Volunteer of the Year has big plans—for her career, for her riding, and for the sport of dressage By Colleen Scott Reprinted from the May/June 2020 issue of USDF Connection magazine. Nineteen-year-old Ruby Tevis...

How Horses Saved and Influenced a Century Club Member’s Life This article is sponsored by The Dressage Foundation.   Peter Kalman, born in Budapest on August 14, 1937, began his life amidst the brutality of World War...

Robin had gas-colicked a few times and was occasionally choking; he was thin and losing weight. Everyone believed it was the beginning of the end. Fortunately, his bouts of colic didn’t make Ann-Louise hesitant for him to do a little work. However, she didn’t know that letting him carry a disabled woman around for an hour a week would set them both on a marvelous journey.