Mission

To foster and advance the breeding and development of the highest quality dressage sport horses and to promote a strong foundation for the dressage sport horse development pipeline in the United States.

Goals

1. To educate breeders, owners, buyers, handlers, trainers, and judges about the ideals of both dressage sport horse prospects and breeding stock.
2. Encourage and acknowledge the efforts of USDF member breeders in producing the highest quality dressage sport horse.
3. Provide dressage sport horse competition management, owners, and breeders with competition guidelines and opportunities.
4. Promote USDF horse recordings and tracking of competition results.
5. Nurture and develop future generations for the dressage sport horse breeding industry.
6. Review and update all proposed USDF sport horse scoresheets and instruction documents.

Objectives

1. Host a USDF Sport Horse Seminar in conjunction with a USEF/USDF DSHB Training Program and Clinic.
2. Host a Dressage Sport Horse Prospect Forum.
3. Host a USDF Handler Clinic.
4. Continue dressage judge’s education for materiale classes.
5. Review policy and methods for acceptance of breed registry papers. The digital world has changed many things, including how registries provide registry documentation. USDF has always required hard copy papers, but some registries don’t provide that in current times.
6. Create a tutorial for the USDF website on the Breeder Series Championship Finals Program, how it works, qualifier competitions, finals, awards and more.

Members