Tag: Paralympics

Members were eager to reunite with old friends, vote on important matters affecting our sport, partake in a full slate of education sessions, and meet folks from all across the US who share their passion for dressage at the 2024 Adequan®/USDF Annual Convention December 4 – 7, 2024. Here are some of this year’s trending topics and takeaways.

By Kim MacMillan: After a rest day, Team USA gears up to go for gold in team para-dressage medal competition

By Kim MacMillan: Promising new partnership is qualified for their grade’s freestyle final

By Jennifer O. Bryant: Its story arc interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, the long-anticipated documentary film Paragold is worth the wait.

I had gone on an inn-to-inn weeklong trail riding trek. On the second day, the horse I was riding tripped violently, falling on top of me, at the beach on the water's edge. I fell in the water, and I could feel it up to my ears while lying immobile with my head held still by another rider, waiting for the helicopter to airlift me to Galway University Hospital. Another French doctor rider, a cardiologist, also tended to me, and they saved my life.