Tag: USDF Flashback
A Founding Club: Central States Dressage & Evening Association
The GMO now known as the CSDEA was founded in September 1970 as the Dressage and Combined Training Association. The group consisted...
A Founding Club: New England Dressage Association
When New England dressage enthusiasts Priscilla Endicott and Pamela Fitzwilliams returned home from the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, they sought like-minded riders...
A Founding Club: Long Island Dressage and Combined Training Association
In 1974, when David and Anne Gribbons started the Long Island Dressage and Combined Training Association, most dressage-minded enthusiasts in the area...
A Founding Club: California Dressage Society
The GMO giant—with its 35 chapters, a busy central office, and thousands of members throughout California and spilling into Las Vegas and...
A Founding Club: Equestrians Institute
By 1974, a group of western Washington state parents who’d started a Pony Club chapter back in 1960 decided to emulate the...
A Founding Club: Deep South Dressage and Combined Training Association
Ann Ticehurst, a Florida-based dressage instructor and judge, had been studying dressage with Col. Hans Handler, then director of the Spanish Riding...
A Founding Club: Midwest Dressage Association
With only a few shows in the midwestern US offering dressage classes in the 1960s and no shows dedicated solely to dressage,...
A Founding Club: Indiana Dressage Society
Founding members Dan and Melba Kirtley discovered dressage in the late 1960s while Dan’s Navy unit was stationed in Colombia. On their...
A Founding Club: Potomac Valley Dressage Association
The Potomac Valley Dressage Association was founded in 1964 at the Potomac Horse Center in Gaithersburg, MD, where many dressage notables once...
A Founding Club: International Equestrian Organization
America’s first dressage club and USDF’s oldest GMO, the Pennsylvania-based International Equestrian Organization was founded in 1958 by the late Lilian Wittmack...
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