The 2017 Adequan® Global Dressage Festival - Building a Community with Success
Dressage athletes eagerly prepare for the 2017 Adequan® Global Dressage Festival (AGDF) annual winter competitions taking place on South Shore Boulevard in Wellington, Florida. The upcoming season will...
View Article4* FEI Judge Christoph Hess Encourages Communication between Riders and Judges
FEI judges are increasingly encouraging riders to approach them and ask questions about their tests. Since FEI Dressage Rules neither discourage nor prohibit competitors from discussing their marks...
View ArticleHarmony Sporthorses’ Talented Team
For more than 15 years, Harmony Sporthorses owned by John and Leslie Malone continue to contribute significantly to improving the sport of dressage through collaboration with Michael Klimke, Susan...
View ArticleAntonia Arl's U.S.A. Winter Competition Tour
Antonia Arl and Equestricons Belstaff W Representing Belgium, 16-year-old Antonia Arl is thrilled about having the opportunity to enjoy Florida’s warm winter season for three weeks. Antonia began her...
View ArticleDawn White-O’Connor and Legolas 92
Dawn White-O'Connor and Legolas 92 At this year’s Adequan® Global Dressage Festival, Dawn White-O’Connor, Steffen Peter’s longtime training assistant treasured the opportunity to ride in a Grand Prix...
View ArticleGerman Pony Rider Lisa Widmayer's 12-Weeks at the 2017 Adequan® Global...
Lisa Widmayer at the 2017 Adequan Global Dressage FestivalThe advancements and experience the 15-year-old pony rider Lisa Widmayer gained during the 2017 series has been intensive and pivotal in...
View ArticleLeida Collins-Strijk Coaches the Next Generation and Competes her Grand Prix...
Top rider Leida Collins-Strijk, a multi-medalist for the Netherlands and high ranking rider who has consistently competed with great success throughout Europe, including 's-Hertogenbosch, Amsterdam,...
View ArticleWonderful Isabell Werth and Weiegold take the WORLD CUP DRESSAGE TITLE BY STORM
When she’s got her game face on, you ain’t messin’ with this lady. But this evening the sometimes seriously scary world no. 1, Germany’s Isabell Werth, really let her hair down during the prizegiving...
View Article4* Dressage Judge Elisabeth Max-Theurer and the Great Strides of the FEI U25...
The progress in the sport of dressage is the U25 Grand Prix Division Championships. Advancing the sport of dressage last year, the FEI introduced its first annual European U25 Championships in the U.S....
View ArticleJaimey and Tina Irwin Take a Victorious Approach with Donegal V and Laurencio
There is truly something special about the husband and wife team of Jaimey and Tina Irwin. The impressively successful training process they developed led both to top wins, as seen at the 2017 Adequan®...
View ArticleChristilot Boylen's Consistent Training System
A highly skilled athlete who routinely wins at top worldwide competitions including her three Pan American Games Individual Gold Medals and six Olympic Games and a myriad of international CDI victories...
View ArticleAll-American Anna Buffini U25 Dressage Grand Prix Athlete Builds Her Own...
Twenty-two-year-old Anna Buffini of Del Mar, California builds an unhurried and steady progression for a secure and long-term career as a professional rider in dressage by honing in on three main focal...
View ArticleCharlotte Bredahl-Baker and the U.S. Equestrian “Select Athlete One-on-One...
L-R Beth Baumert, Molly O’Brien and Charlotte Bredahl-Baker Olympic U.S. rider, trainer and 4* FEI Dressage Judge Charlotte Bredahl-Baker has dedicated herself to be the best U.S. Assistant Youth Coach...
View ArticleWashington State's Mallih Ataee a Standout Athlete for U.S. Dressage...
Mallih Ataee and Sir Pegasus Riding all of her life with two years explicitly focusing on Dressage for U.S. competition, sixteen-year-old Mallih Ataee of Medina, Washington has been steadily achieving...
View ArticleNatalie Pai Continues Progress to U25 Grand Prix
The youngest person in the small tour at Dutta Corp.’s U.S. Equestrian Festival of Champions in Gladstone in May was Natalie Pai. After just turning 20-years-old in April, she rode 15-year-old...
View ArticleThe Significance of a Horse’s Chest Sling Muscles Biomechanic Research by...
Seventeen years of collecting data on gait analysis for dressage horses in the equine laboratory at the McPhail Center at Michigan State University, biomechanics research veterinarian Hilary Clayton,...
View ArticlePerspectives of Experienced FEI 5* Judge Lilo Fore
Highly regarded by the international dressage community, Liselotte “Lilo” Fore a USEF Dressage ‘S’ (Senior) Judge and as an ‘R’ Sport Horse Judge who aged out as a FEI 5* judge but was given an...
View ArticleUSET Foundation Celebrates Hamilton Farm's U.S.A. Historic Landmark Designation
Hamilton Farm in Gladstone, New Jersey, is where the United States Equestrian Team Foundation is headquartered and where U.S. equestrians continue to prepare and represent their country abroad,...
View ArticleThe Quality Pursuit of Heather Boo and Divertimento to the High-Performance...
This year has been a steady climb for Heather Boo and Divertimento aka Timmy, a 15-year-old gelding (Di Versaci x Ferragamo). The duo won the Grand Prix Amateur Adult division at the USDF Regional 3...
View ArticleThe 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games™ in Tryon
The highly anticipated 2018 international World Equestrian Games (WEG) will be held at the Tryon International Equestrian Center in Mill Spring, North Carolina. Touted as the world’s premier...
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