The 2002 Northeast Junior/Young Rider Dressage Championships

An Equestrian Competition Extraordinaire

by Theresa Davidson

Bedford, New York (May 22, 2002) Every month on a weekday evening a group of women gather in the living room of a charming clapboard colonial house hidden at the end of a quiet street in beautiful Bedford, New York. In an atmosphere charged with purpose and excitement, participants feverishly scribble information that flies across the room from several simultaneous conversations. At the end of a couch positioned next to a phone which never ceases to ring, is the visionary of the group, two-time Olympic Dressage rider and trainer, Lendon F. Gray. The planning committee is in the final hour of preparations for the fourth annual Northeast Junior/Young Rider Dressage Championships scheduled to return to the landmark Ox Ridge Hunt Club in Darien, Connecticut on August 17 and 18, 2002.