Tag: Eastern States Dressage and Combined Training Association

This article received first place in the 2025 GMO Newsletter Awards. It appeared in the ESDCTA newsletter, Collective Remarks, May 2025.

This article received an honorable mention in the 2025 GMO Newsletter Awards for first person experience articles for GMOs with 175-499 members.

Meet Pennsylvania-based Participating Member (PM) Delegate for Region 1, Paige Zimmerman! She became a PM Delegate in 2023.

By Marley McCourt: I am incredibly grateful, once again, to be a recipient of the USDF Youth Convention Scholarship.

By Ellen Broadhurst: Riders are athletes too, and taking care of both sides of the rider/equine equation is equally important. 

By Sharielle Lawrence HS Wrosaletti, aka Rossi, is my 2010 Hungarian gelding that was gifted to me in 2017 as a complicated rehab case. His...

I met Hank (Orchid’s Tamino) through Sara Schmitt, who imported him from Holland.  I was lucky enough to be the first person who tried him when he came to her barn.   He was full of personality, and was super willing , especially for only being three years old.   As soon as I rode him I knew I had to have him, so I called my vet to set up a pre-purchase exam.  A week later we did his exam and he passed with flying colors!  I was thrilled to finally have a horse after a long year of saving and searching.    

The USDF L Education Program offers a comprehensive curriculum created to teach participants and auditors how to evaluate dressage performance at Training through Second...

Ask anyone associated with USDF and they will tell you uninhibitedly that “GMOs are the backbone of the organization!” …and it’s true! Nearly 50...

Gale Wolfe has owned and managed a riding stable for nearly 40 years.  After 30 years of working as an engineer in the environmental...