Tag: Regional Championships

Thank you, my kind, sensitive and beautiful Golden Boy, you are everything that a Lusitano is supposed to be. I feel so privileged to have had him become my friend, and tell everyone that "it's like going to the prom on the arm of the Homecoming King".

Even in a crowded competition calendar, Region 1’s Col. Bengt Ljungquist Memorial Championships are still going strong Reprinted from the November/December 2022 USDF Connection magazine By...

By Suzanne Krauss  The first time I heard about the Great American/USDF Regional Dressage Championships was when a barn mate, Dianne, and her older mare...

By Deanna Hertrich-Nelson Pik Me, is a 7-year-old American Warmblood who stands 17.3 hands tall.  He is sired by Pik Ravenclaw and is out of...

By Chelsey Burris and Ross Creech As USDF Members Took the Reins, Our First In-Person Convention Since the Pandemic Certainly Proved One for the Record...

But he was kind and gentle, and didn’t take advantage of the fact that I had only 6 months of riding under my belt when I tried him out.  He must have had a good feeling too, because he hung out with me at his stall when the rescue director and I were talking particulars. “Funny, he must like you, he typically stands in the stall with his butt facing the door.”  So home he came with me.

Eye Candy (Escudo II x Goldstern by Grenadier), a 1999 Hanoverian bred by Hans Hosp of Ottendorf Germany, began his classical dressage training in Vechta, Germany, with Catherine Haddad Staller in early 2003.  Eye Candy was purchased by Robin Mattson in October of that year.  Eye Candy remained in Germany in training with Staller until the fall of 2005, when Robin  imported him to the United States.  Over the next 17 years, Robin and Eye Candy progressed through the levels to Intermediate I, earning their USDF Bronze and Silver Medals.

In the fall of 2021, USDF launched a new way to celebrate excellence - the USDF Diamond Achievement Recognition! To be eligible, riders must...

Fall means Regional Championship time! The 2022 Great American Insurance Group/USDF Regional Dressage Championships are underway this year, with action from Regions 5, 7,...

Fall means Regional Championship time! The 2022 Great American Insurance Group/USDF Regional Dressage Championships are underway this year, with action from Regions 2, 4,...