Tag: USDF History

In 1967, several dressage enthusiasts, including Arlene Rigdon, Lois Arnold, and Linda Landers, began an equestrian study group. The gatherings grew and in 1973...

The GMO now known as the CSDEA was founded in September 1970 as the Dressage and Combined Training Association. The group consisted of 128...

The Virginia Dressage Association was founded in 1973 as an outcrop of the Potomac Valley Dressage Association. At first, VADA was centrally run, with...

When New England dressage enthusiasts Priscilla Endicott and Pamela Fitzwilliams returned home from the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, they sought like-minded riders in the...

The GMO giant—with its 35 chapters, a busy central office, and thousands of members throughout California and spilling into Las Vegas and other surrounds—was...

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...

Lois Aller was a pioneer of sorts: one of the first Wisconsin residents to take up dressage, in the 1960s. Impressed by a dressage...

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

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...