Tag: GMO

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...

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...

Ann Ticehurst, a Florida-based dressage instructor and judge, had been studying dressage with Col. Hans Handler, then director of the Spanish Riding School of...

Lois Aller was a pioneer of sorts: one of the first Wisconsin residents to take up dressage, in the 1960s. Impressed by a dressage...

Group Member Organizations (GMOs) are the foundation of USDF and integral in bringing dressage and dressage education to the masses. Stay connected...

With only a few shows in the midwestern US offering dressage classes in the 1960s and no shows dedicated solely to dressage, MDA’s founding...

The IDCTA was founded in 1972. Within a year, the club’s founders attended USDF’s organizational meetings and decided to form a GMO of their...

Group Member Organizations (GMOs) are the foundation of USDF and integral in bringing dressage and dressage education to the masses. ...

The Potomac Valley Dressage Association was founded in 1964 at the Potomac Horse Center in Gaithersburg, MD, where many dressage notables once trained. The...

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...