Jessica Miller

Bay Area trainer teams up with dressage sales barn, West Coast Horse Farm.

Dressage trainer Jessica Miller is excited to partner with West Coast Horse Farm to bring top quality dressage horses to the United States. Based at her family’s farm, Rancho Del Lago in the East Bay Area’s Briones, Jessica is a USDF Bronze, Silver and Gold Medalist and has ridden since she was a toddler.

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Dressage Life: Friends, Thanks And Riding

Ascent in the sport is supported and enhanced by friendship.

Throughout my riding career I have met many friends and acquaintances along the way. I have been lucky enough to find my best friend, Ayden Uhlir, through riding and I thought this month, the month of Thanksgiving, would be the perfect time to talk about friendships.

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Passage In Paso

New dressage show comes to Central Coast in June.

A new show, the Paso Robles Dressage Summer Classic, will be held at the beautiful Paso Robles Horsepark on June 10-12. Lisa Blaufuss of Crackerjack Productions and Ryan Torkkeli and Thomas Walker of Torkkeli and Walker Dressage are working together to bring this new, triple rated event to the Central Coast.

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Rain Or Shine

Steffen Peters prepares for a hopeful fifth Olympics with OTTO Sport and Premier Equestrian.

With El Niño forecasts dominating the West Coast weather headlines this winter, equestrians’ first thought is not umbrellas and galoshes. It’s “Can we keep riding with all this rain?” The answer relies heavily on how well our arena handles the rain, and thus that’s been a focus of footing discussions of late.

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Beginning Breeders

“Sex camp” and other adventures in managing a breeding stallion.
Shae and Tina Lovazanno are experienced horse owners, trainers and dressage competitors, but they are beginners when it comes to standing an active breeding stallion. “We’ve owned stallions before, but not breeding stallions and there is a big difference,” explains Shae.

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So Long Stuffy & Stiff!

Super comfort and sparkling designs are hallmarks of dressage apparel trends.
Wow! What a change we have seen on the equestrian circuit in the last few years. We can now sparkle across the arena, from our helmet right down to our boots, and so much so that our horse may need sunglasses when he sees us!
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Dressage & The Spanish Steed

Two trainers offer tips for indentifying an Iberian horse well suited for dressage.

The popularity of Spanish breeds for dressage has been growing for several years now.

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Horse People: The “Anke Effect”

European import Anke Herbert makes her mark on dressage in the Bay Area. Dressage test scores have been breaking new barriers for some time. First there was Edward Gal and Moorlands Totilas breaking the 90% threshold at the 2009 European Championships. Last December, Great Britain’s Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro shattered that with a 93.975% at the Olympia show in London.

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Europe 101

USEF Developing Dressage Program experience offers ample lessons. Thanks to the USEF Developing Dressage Program and with funding assistance from the Courtney’s Quest Scholarship Award of Dressage4Kids Inc., and my parents Greg and Michele Vaughn, I was able to travel to Europe this summer with my Hanoverian stallion Donarweiss GGF to train and compete in the Under 25 divisions at Rotterdam and Hagen.

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Horse People: Catherine Rose Chamberlain

Discipline and drive produce magic in young dressage star. “Sport ambassador” is a label that carries a lot of responsibilities. It’s often affixed to 20-year-old dressage rider Catherine Chamberlain and she takes it seriously, yet wears it lightly.

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Rigdon & Blake Stables

Dressage trainers launch big dreams from a new San Diego base. In a graduation speech recently gone viral, comedian Jim Carrey told students not to be afraid of making “an outrageous request of the universe.”

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The Lipizzan

Special breed’s 450-year heritage has current benefits in today’s sporthorse world. by Susanne Desai
The Spanish Riding School of Vienna, Austria will celebrate 450 years of dedication to classical riding and the Lipizzan horse breed on June 26 of this year.

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April 2015 - Horse People: Michelle Reilly - Relocation to San Diego is good for trainer, rider and the West Coast dressage scene.

Jan Dickieson has been riding for nearly 40 years and has worked with several trainers, including being one of Olympian Guenter Seidel’s first students when he came to the States. She admits that finding her way to Michelle Reilly was “pure dumb luck” but describes her three years with the up-and-coming trainer and Grand Prix rider as “the best thing that’s ever happened to my riding.”

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April 2015 - What's Happening: April Event Calendar

World Cup Finals: April 15-20 in Las Vegas

We have been promoting this elite and rare-to-have-in-our-backyard event for many months. The World Cup means the world’s best in dressage and show jumping competition, sponsored by Longines and Reem Acra, respectively, and all the entertaining trappings that go along with that. Add to that ample shopping opportunities in an entertaining destination and this is the can’t miss event of the year.

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April 2015 - Flying Changes: Christine Traurig Becomes USEF Young Horse Coach

Christine Traurig, who rode for the United States on the bronze-medal team at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, takes on a new role as America’s dressage Young Horse Coach. Christine, 56 years old, of Carlsbad, succeeds Scott Hassler who retires May 1 from the position he held for almost a decade as the first U.S. Young Horse Coach.

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