Tag: USDF Flashback

Reprinted from the April 2017 USDF Connection magazine. Some of the most important people in American dressage aren’t famous riders or trainers. Instead, they make significant behind-the-scenes contributions...

Reprinted from the September 2015 USDF Connection magazine. Reflecting our sport’s European roots and the influence of many foreign trainers in American dressage, several...

Reprinted from the October 2015 USDF Connection magazine. By Jennifer O. Bryant The practice of dressage in the United States traces back to exactly one man. Yes,...

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...

Gifted and Keen were the first two horses to be inducted into the Roemer Foundation/USDF Hall of Fame. They were inducted in 1997. Gifted, 1980-1997,...

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...