Tag: USDF History
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: Virginia Dressage Association
The Virginia Dressage Association was founded in 1973 as an outcrop of the Potomac Valley Dressage Association. At first, VADA was centrally...
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: 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: Wisconsin Dressage & Combined Training Association
Lois Aller was a pioneer of sorts: one of the first Wisconsin residents to take up dressage, in the 1960s. Impressed by...
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: Eastern States Dressage and Combined Training Association
The late USDF Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Lazelle Knocke and the late Roemer Foundation/USDF Hall of Fame inductee Capt. John H. “Jack”...
2007 USDF/USET Young Rider Graduate Program
This year's USDF/USET Young Rider Graduate Program just took place on January 18-19 in West Palm Beach, FL. A long standing program...
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