Tag: Founding Club
A Founding Club – St. Louis Area Dressage Society
Dressage instructor Sonya Kershaw and about nine novice dressage riders—most of whom were Kershaw’s students—started the St. Louis Area Dressage Society in 1973 in...
A Founding Club: Virginia Dressage Association
The Virginia Dressage Association was founded in 1973 as an outcrop of the Potomac Valley Dressage Association. At first, VADA was centrally run, with...
A Founding Club: New England Dressage Association
When New England dressage enthusiasts Priscilla Endicott and Pamela Fitzwilliams returned home from the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, they sought like-minded riders in the...
A Founding Club: California Dressage Society
The GMO giant—with its 35 chapters, a busy central office, and thousands of members throughout California and spilling into Las Vegas and other surrounds—was...
A Founding Club: Equestrians Institute
By 1974, a group of western Washington state parents who’d started a Pony Club chapter back in 1960 decided to emulate the Pony Club...
A Founding Club: International Equestrian Organization
America’s first dressage club and USDF’s oldest GMO, the Pennsylvania-based International Equestrian Organization was founded in 1958 by the late Lilian Wittmack Roye, a...
A Founding Club: Eastern States Dressage and Combined Training Association
The late USDF Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Lazelle Knocke and the late Roemer Foundation/USDF Hall of Fame inductee Capt. John H. “Jack” Fritz are...
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The colder months may be gone, but now, the flies are here, and it’s our responsibility to be prepared to keep our horses comfortable.
