Tag: Regionals

An adult amateur in Region 2 shares about importing her first ever horse, a 3-year-old Westfalen named For Amour, and why you can never go wrong when choosing a horse with a “W” on their left hip.

The 2023 Great American Insurance Group/USDF Regional Dressage Championships are right around the corner!  Riders from all nine regions are making their final preparations...

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...

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.

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 2, 4,...

Back in 2008, a Florida breeder of Lipizzans for 40 years welcomed a bay colt into their Lipizzan family. He was the only non-gray Lipizzan foal born to this breeder, and he was promptly named Chester. Tradition requires male Lipizzans be named in a certain way for the registry, so Chester’s fancy name was Siglavy Presciana II-II (Siglavy Aga x Presciana II).   He was backed at five-and-a-half-years-old, and when I met him in 2015 at 7, he was a recently-gelded, sassy, but beautifully started 15.1 hand powerhouse.  It was love at first sight, and I had to buy him.

The 2022 US Dressage Finals presented by Adequan® is right around the corner!  If you’re planning to join us in Kentucky this November for...

August is Youth Month on YourDressage! From stories about remarkable young dressage enthusiasts across the country, to articles about some of the opportunities USDF...

What programs do you sponsor with USDF? Great American Insurance Group is the title sponsor of the Great American Insurance Group/USDF Regional Dressage Championships,...