Tag: USA Para Dressage

In this new series, we highlight the USEF's Para-Equestrian Dressage Centers of Excellence. Today we look at Carlisle Academy!

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

Meet Team USA of the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games: Rebecca Hart & Floratina, Fiona Howard & Diamond Dunes, Kate Shoemaker & Vianne, and Roxanne Trunnell & Fan Tastico H!

At the conclusion of the June 19 Perrigo CPEDI3*, athletes, coaches, grooms, and friends gathered to remember Hope Hand, a key leader and supporter of the Para Dressage movement, who sadly passed away in early June 2022. Watch the memorial here.

Spend enough time in the dressage world and you’ll hear “she’s a Grade II Para Equestrian”, or “he’s riding the Grade V Introductory Test A”. But what do these grades mean? Let’s look at how the FEI and USEF (who has adopted the FEI Para Equestrian Classification Rules and Para Equestrian Manual for Classifiers as the National Policies and Procedures for Classification at the National level) breaks down the Para Equestrian grading system.