By Kendra Hansis
If you've ever considered showing a youngster in-hand or in Materiale, do it! You'll have a much more mature horse by the time you're ready to go up the levels.
Unbeknownst to me when we arrived, I was met with our new “broodmare” who turned out instead to be a one-and-a-half-year-old stud colt, who would one day be lovingly known to me as MonarcH.
By Amy Griffin
What a summer! From barely halter broken to Reserve Champion Southern Breeders Championship Series in just three weeks!
A HUGE thank you to...
I decided to name him Rubeus Hagrid after the lovable and generous half giant from the Harry Potter books. After all, it was his mother who was the giantess while his father was a normal size. His story was too similar and he was too hairy to not be a Hagrid.
By Jennifer M. KeelerPhotographs By SusanJStickle.com
For young dressage professional Christine Landry, of East Dennis, MA, competing at the US Dressage Finals wasn’t even a...
To everyone interested in dressage with a Morgan or Morgan cross, I say go for it. They are lovely partners, often with such willingness and easy to ride gaits. A previous career doesn’t impede them from being able to succeed in their new career.
Best practices for judges, scribes, and competitors
Reprinted from the May 2016 Issue of USDF Connection
By Marilyn Heath
A
conscientious scribe is a valuable...
A dressage trainer reflects on her fifth journey to the US Dressage Finals presented by Adequan®
By Angelia Bean
My fifth trip to the Kentucky Horse...
Eye Candy (Escudo II x Goldstern by Grenadier), a 1999 Hanoverian bred by Hans Hosp of Ottendorf Germany, began his classical dressage training in Vechta, Germany, with Catherine Haddad Staller in early 2003. Eye Candy was purchased by Robin Mattson in October of that year. Eye Candy remained in Germany in training with Staller until the fall of 2005, when Robin imported him to the United States. Over the next 17 years, Robin and Eye Candy progressed through the levels to Intermediate I, earning their USDF Bronze and Silver Medals.
Under a dusting of wintry snow, the Kentucky Horse Park played host to the fourth and final day of action in the 2022 US Dressage Finals presented by Adequan® on Sunday, November 13.
By Alice Collins for Jump Media
A staggering 13 championship titles were presented on Saturday, November 12, the third day of the 2022 US Dressage Finals presented by Adequan® at the Kentucky Horse Park.
By Alice Collins for Jump Media
By Mike Osinski, USEF “S” and FEI Judge
With the popularity of Dressage Seat Equitation, the numbers are rising in these classes across the country. Here are a few tips for riders to understand what the judges are looking for in an Equitation class.