Tag: USDF Flashback

By 1974, a group of western Washington state parents who’d started a Pony Club chapter back in 1960 decided to emulate the Pony Club...

Ann Ticehurst, a Florida-based dressage instructor and judge, had been studying dressage with Col. Hans Handler, then director of the Spanish Riding School of...

With only a few shows in the midwestern US offering dressage classes in the 1960s and no shows dedicated solely to dressage, MDA’s founding...

Founding members Dan and Melba Kirtley discovered dressage in the late 1960s while Dan’s Navy unit was stationed in Colombia. On their return home...

The Potomac Valley Dressage Association was founded in 1964 at the Potomac Horse Center in Gaithersburg, MD, where many dressage notables once trained. The...

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 Roye, a...

The late USDF Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Lazelle Knocke and the late Roemer Foundation/USDF Hall of Fame inductee Capt. John H. “Jack” Fritz are...

As we prepare for this year's convention in Savannah, GA we look back on the 2016 convention held in St. Louis, MO Photo Slide...

Photographs by Jennifer O. Bryant and Karl Lawrence The USDF celebrated its fortieth anniversary in style at the 2013 Adequan/USDF Annual Convention, held December 4-8...

As we prepare for the seventh installment of the US Dressage Finals presented by Adequan® to be held November 7-10, we take a...