Tag: Adult Amateur

By Sally O’Dwyer, Dressage Amateur  "Winning and losing isn't everything; sometimes, the journey is just as important as the outcome." - Alex Morgan Winning means success,...

By Karen Sweaney With my purebred Arabian gelding, G Ima Starr FA, known around the barn as Speedy G, this June we finally earned the...

By Cassie Sherwood Razmitaz and I have been a team for six years now.  She’s an unusual and talented combination of warmblood and quarter horse,...

By Valerie Goodman If someone would have told me the first horse I would ride at an FEI level would be a barely backed, 6-year-old...

By Sally O’Dwyer, Dressage Amateur Are you a dressage fanatic going a little stir crazy because you are unable to ride?  Don’t be blue!  Pursue...

By Mike Osinski As is so often true in life, being in the right place at the right time can mean so much relative to success....

Beginners Have the Most Fun! by Sally O’Dwyer If you are a lower level dressage amateur, you belong to an esteemed class of people eager to learn....

By Heidi Chote 2019 was markedly different from the last 31 years here at First Chance Farm in Wilton, CA. This winter was predicted to...

By Christine Malpartida When the USDF introduced the USDF Regional Adult Amateur Equitation Program, I got really excited! I informed my trainer and friends at my barn,...

USDF offers a plethora of education and competition programs geared towards adult amateurs. Adequan®/USDF Adult Amateur and Adult Amateur Musical Freestyle Awards These annual year-end awards...