Young Riders

The purpose of the RDHCW is to identify and develop the next generation of U.S. Dressage talent. Training sessions will feature mounted sessions led by internationally acclaimed American athletes and trainers and daily instruction on all facets of horsemanship from experts in their respective fields.

On the final day of the 74th Buffalo International Horse Show at the Buffalo Therapeutic Riding Center, Children's and Pony Hunters were in the spotlight as their divisions concluded and champions were named.

Dressage4Kids and Anne Baber Wallis are pleased to announce that Julia Lee Barton is the recipient of the 2022 D4K Christian Kennedy Young Adult Scholarship. As the recipient of the scholarship, Julia will work under the training leadership of Oded Shimoni at OS Dressage in Wellington, Florida.

The third day of competition of the U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions was packed full of excitement. Seven divisions competed on Friday with three national championships on the line.

Virginia is the promised young revelation of Italian dressage, after the last European pony championship, which has just been held in Poland. She reported the percentage of 73.829% in the Pony team test, finishing in ninth place in the ranking. Read the interview with the up and coming young rider.

The FEI North American Youth Dressage Championships continued today with the Young Rider division awarding a second gold medal to Christian Simonson (Ventura, Calif.) and Zeaball Diawind after the pair rode to a personal best score of 75.353%.

Junior and Young Rider athletes took to their second day of team competition as they battled it out for their shot at the top of the podium at the FEI North American Youth Jumping Championships.

USEF Pony Finals first-time competitor Emma Dyson (Greenwich, Conn.) and D’Artagnan, a 2010 German Riding Pony gelding, took the win in the Large Regular Pony Hunter National Championship.

In the end, a single point separated the top three at the 2021 USHJA Gladstone Cup Equitation Classic - East,. After three rounds of excellent equitation, Alexander Alston rode to the top of the class, securing the win.

Winning at the USEF Junior Hunter National Championship requires near perfection, and Kat Fuqua (Atlanta, Ga.) and her gelding Grand Remo delivered this week at Pennsylvania’s historic Devon Fairgrounds.