Tag: American Dressage Legends

Reprinted from the May 2017 USDF Connection magazine. Go through the list of early Roemer Foundation/USDF Hall of Fame inductees (online at usdf.org) and...

Reprinted from the April 2017 USDF Connection magazine. Some of the most important people in American dressage aren’t famous riders or trainers. Instead, they make significant behind-the-scenes contributions...

Reprinted from the September 2015 USDF Connection magazine. Reflecting our sport’s European roots and the influence of many foreign trainers in American dressage, several...

Reprinted from the October 2015 USDF Connection magazine. By Jennifer O. Bryant The practice of dressage in the United States traces back to exactly one man. Yes,...

Reprinted from the June 2014 USDF Connection magazine. The name Violet Hopkins is not well known in modern dressage, and as a rider Hopkins (1909-2002)...

Reprinted from the May 2015 USDF Connection magazine. The remarkable Graf George helped to put American dressage on the map at two consecutive Olympic Games,...

Chuck Grant 1914-1990 Trainer of seventeen competitive Grand Prix horses, instructor and noted author, he introduced Dressage to the Midwest and inspired students for...

Reprinted from the June 2015 USDF Connection magazine. In the pre-Internet era in which the USDF was founded and dressage began gaining a foothold in...

Reprinted from the July/August 2015 USDF Connection magazine. Especially in the early days of American dressage, the pioneers of our sport—a number of them immigrants—had...

Reprinted from the October 2016 USDF Connection magazine. If your riding instructor has ever counseled you to imagine your body parts stacked like building blocks in...