Glendon Gray News Today

Young Riders Dream Program 2024

At The Dressage Foundation’s recent meeting of its Board of Directors, Lendon Gray (NY) was selected as the new Chairman of the Board to begin in January 2024.

The USEF Dressage Seat Medal Final is a unique experience for youth athletes to compete in a two-phase competition held in one day.

Ben McWhorter and Jennifer Burts’s 1996 German Riding Pony gelding, Littel Joe 2, won their second class of the two held in the pony rider division to clinch the champion title.

When the Kentucky Derby horses come out of the starting gate Saturday night, one group will be watching with special interest: the Nielsen family.

WOOLWICH - Vaughn Merle Gray, 69, of Old Stage Road died Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022, at Maine Medical Center in Portland. He ...

Maja Cornwell Rides First Young Riders Tests on Olympic Team Horse Breaking Dawn Sat, 02/06/2021 - 14:21 2021 CDN Wellington Not that many young riders can say that they rode their very first Young Riders test on an Olympic team horse. For 18-year old American Maja Cornwell a dream came true last weekend, when she went down the centerline on Breaking Dawn, Ashley Holzers 2012 London Olympic team ride. Breaking Dawn Breaking Dawn is a 20-year old Dutch warmblood gelding by Akribori out...

The United States Equestrian Team (USET) Foundation has awarded the 2021 Lionel Guerrand-Hermès Trophy to 20-year-old Hannah Irons of Queenstown, Maryland. Each year, the USET awards the Lionel Guerrand-Hermès Trophy to a Junior/Young Rider in an Olympic discipline who exemplifies the Team’s ideals of sportsmanship and horsemanship. Irons, an active member of the Discover Dressage USEF/USDF Emerging Athlete Program and the FEI Young Rider Individual Test champion at the 2020 U.S. Dressage F...

Kendall Cox Makes International Under 25 Debut on Tina Konyots Diamantino II Fri, 12/25/2020 - 00:17 F.O.C.U.S. At the 2020 CDI-W Wellington on 11 - 13 December a new, interesting duo made its international show debut in the Under 25 division: Kendall Cox on Tina Konyots former Grand Prix ride, Diamantino II. Diamantino II is an 11-year old Hanoverian gelding by Desperados out of Laura (by Lauries Crusador xx x Lemon Tree x Wendekreis). He is bred in Germany by Rolf and Maria Dinklage. ...

Exploring how Bermuda’s equestrian community brings opportunity to its riders "The dressage court is the same size no matter where you put it in the world,” Bermuda’s National Dressage Coach Angela Halloran-Smith said to me as we sat in front of a window overlooking Harrington Sound. “That’s huge for us here in Bermuda.” The blue December sky competed in vibrancy with the sparkling saltwater below it. In the distance, anchored boats gently bobbed in the waves against a backdrop o...