Tag: Roemer Foundation

Reprinted from the June 2014 USDF Connection magazine. The name Violet Hopkins is not well known in modern dressage, and as a rider Hopkins (1909-2002)...

Reprinted from the May 2015 USDF Connection magazine. The remarkable Graf George helped to put American dressage on the map at two consecutive Olympic Games,...

Chuck Grant 1914-1990 Trainer of seventeen competitive Grand Prix horses, instructor and noted author, he introduced Dressage to the Midwest and inspired students for...

G. Lowell Boomer, Lincoln, NE, founding organizer of the USDF, was born on October 12, 1911. He died November 20, 2011, less than six...

Reprinted from the June 2015 USDF Connection magazine. In the pre-Internet era in which the USDF was founded and dressage began gaining a foothold in...

Reprinted from the July/August 2015 USDF Connection magazine. Especially in the early days of American dressage, the pioneers of our sport—a number of them immigrants—had...

Reprinted from the October 2016 USDF Connection magazine. If your riding instructor has ever counseled you to imagine your body parts stacked like building blocks in...

Reprinted from the May 2014 USDF Connection magazine. Although a number of European dressage masters played important roles in developing the sport in this country, relatively few...

Reprinted from the April 2016 USDF Connection magazine. In the early 1960s, dressage was little known or respected in the US. Margarita “Migi” Noble Serrell...

Reprinted from the November 2015 USDF Connection magazine. Max Gahwyler passed away May 13, 2016. Now in his early nineties, Dr. Max Gahwyler doesn’t travel...