Tryon CDE

Lexington, Ky. - US Equestrian is pleased to announce the selected host sites for the 2022 USEF Combined Driving National Championships. US Equestrian will offer 16 national championship classes across five events. The qualifying requirements for athletes are published on the USEF website.

“It was his first time doing Advanced and my first time doing Advanced. He was the Prelim Single Horse USEF Champion, and then this last winter in Florida he was unbeaten in Intermediate, so I decided I might as well go ahead and see how Advanced went!”

Donna Crookston (PA) drove to a win in the Advanced Single Horse Division of the Tryon CDE presented by Main Street Insurance, topping the biggest section of competitors at the second-ever fall CDE competition.

TRYON CDE 2021 - September 23-26 - Results and Information

Mill Spring, N.C. – It was a great week of competition at the Katydid Combined Driving Event at the Tryon International Equestrian Center. Bad weather on Saturday resulted in a schedule change with all dressage tests taking place on Thursday and the...

The Inaugural Katydid CDE at TIEC presented by Main Street Insurance debuted at Tryon International Equestrian Center and Resort (TIEC) after a 2020 cancellation, welcoming a robust number of entries for the CAI 2* and national competition alongside the USEF Advanced Pony and Intermediate Combined Driving National Championships.

Held on the course that was built for the FEI World Equestrian Games 2018, this event will attract some of the country's top drivers and horses eager to test their skills on the challenging course designed by FEI Course designer Marc Johnson.

This was a critical competition for the top US Single Horse Drivers who were vying for a spot on the US team for the FEI World Driving Championships for Single Horses to be held in Pau France, October 21-25. With a COVID cloud of uncertainty, all drivers rallied at the first USEF competition since they squared off at Live Oak in March.

Intending to come to the Tryon CDE for a learning experience, Reuterskiold shared that she “wasn’t expecting to walk away with a win. I came to learn; it was a big trip to haul halfway across the country.

A former volunteer for both the Driving Test Event and the World Games in 2018, Rhinehart was familiar with the venue already, but now was able to drive and win two years later.