Tag: USDF Hall of Fame
American Dressage Legends: Maj. Gen. Jonathan R. Burton
Reprinted from the May 2017 USDF Connection magazine.
Go through the list of early Roemer Foundation/USDF Hall of Fame
inductees (online at usdf.org) and...
American Dressage Legends: Major Anders Lindgren
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...
American Dressage Legends: Colonel Hiram Tuttle
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,...
American Dressage Legends: Violet Hopkins
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)...
American Dressage Legends: Graf George
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,...
American Dressage Legends: E.G. Charles “Chuck” Grant
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...
Lowell Boomer, Founding Father
G. Lowell Boomer, Lincoln, NE, founding organizer of the USDF, was born on October 12, 1911. He died November 20, 2011, less than six...
American Dressage Legends: Ivan I. Bezugloff Jr.
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...
American Dressage Legends: Kyra Downton
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...
American Dressage Legends: Sally Swift
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...
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Sharing a Dressage Horse
This article received an honorable mention in the 2023 GMO Newsletter Awards for first person experience articles for GMOs with 75-174 members. It appeared in the October 2022 St. Louis Area Dressage Society newsletter, Hoofprints.
High-tailing It To Houston
We couldn’t be more excited to bring the 2024 Adequan®/USDF Annual Convention to Houston, in Region 9’s great state of Texas!
