Competition

This article earned first place in the 2024 GMO Newsletter Awards. It appeared in the August 2024 SEDA newsletter, The Bleep.

Meet Competitions Director, Krystina Wright, who hails from Canada and competes at Prix St. Georges with her off-the-track Thoroughbred!

By Natalie Defee Mendik: Should there be more cash awards in dressage competitions? We look at the pros, cons, and challenges.

By Natalie DeFee Mendik: For one adult-amateur competitor, the experience is about much more than winning ribbons

A Region 4 rider shares about how she and her horse made the switch from hunters to dressage, and how they are thriving in their new discipline!

Each year at the US Dressage Finals presented by Adequan®, there are special recognitions available for specific breeds. There are six awards offered by each breed organization that has chosen to be represented. Check out who won these awards in 2024!

Each edition of the US Dressage Finals presented by Adequan® features new and spellbinding performances as the top competitors in the nation dance their way down centerline. From horses and riders overcoming the most unlikely odds to claim Finals crowns, unique breeds that had everyone on the showgrounds gawking, to such dramatic and close finishes that one class ended in a dead heat, here are ten moments from the 2024 Finals that we are sure to be talking about for years to come.

A junior rider pieced together her horse's unknown history & found out a lot about him & reminding us that, when it comes to horses, it is what it is today!

USDF and USEF are thrilled to announce that the 2025 US Dressage Finals presented by Adequan® are scheduled for October 30 – November 2, at the World Equestrian Center (WEC) in Wilmington, OH.

USDF wants to say THANK YOU to the volunteers who came from far & wide to help ensure the US Dressage Finals went off without a hitch.