By Dawn Petraitis, SEDA Scholarship Recipient As dressage riders, we are supposed to know what is going on with our horse at all times while riding. You’re always making very slight adjustments based on what you feel. I, however, have somehow developed the habit of looking...
By Nicole Miller I believe all of us can say that this has been a very weird year – and it's only July. (I think. I've kind of lost track.) What started off in January as a calendar full of hope and opportunities quickly turned into...
By Aryelle Stafford-Collins, recipient of the Mysing-Williams Eventing Scholarship KENTUCKY. I’M GOING TO RIDE IN KENTUCKY HORSE PARK. THIS IS REAL LIFE. (Repeat that loudly about 100 times and that pretty much sums up what I did on day one. ) Chaston and I flew in on a Monday...
By Aryelle Stafford-Collins, recipient of the Mysing-Williams Eventing Scholarship This story is a long one. I tried hard to condense it, but as we all know, there’s so much that goes into our sport. For starters, most of us are not professional riders with millions of dollars....
By Sarah Morgan, SEDA Scholarship Recipient Hello. My name is Sarah, and I am an eventer. And I have a confession to make. I don’t like to go fast. I’m basically working toward learning the piaffe so I can piaffe up to and over jumps. If...
By Paula Gregory This year’s USDF Region 9 Great American Insurance Group (GAIG) and Southwest Dressage Championships (SWDC) are held each year in Katy, TX. Riders from around the region (TX, MS, AR, OK, LA) must qualify by achieving the required scores at two recognized shows,...