Featured Rider September 2019 AADA Featured Rider “Calleen Kinney” Name: Calleen Kinney Currently living: Nokesville, VA Horse’s Name: Sokrates Horse’s Age: 8 years old Horse Breed: Westphalian What or who inspired you to ride Dressage?My Grandmother and Aunt. My grandmother was the first person in the US to get her Bronze Medal riding sidesaddle. She […]
Featured Rider August 2019 AADA Featured Rider “Holly Simpson” Name: Holly Simpson Currently living: Lake View Terrace, CA Horse’s Name: Grand Enya Horse’s Age: 21 years old Horse Present Competition Level: 4th Horse Breed: Rheinland Pfalz Saar What or who inspired you to ride Dressage?For my 9th? birthday my father took me and one of […]
Featured Rider July 2019 AADA Featured Rider “Jennifer Baxter” Name: Jennifer Andrews Currently living: Magnolia, Texas Horse’s Name: Delilah Horse Breed: Friesian Mare Riding Age: 58 What or who inspired you to ride Dressage?I am inspired by the bond between horse and rider. To be able to trust your horse and have them trust you […]
Featured Rider June 2019 AADA Featured Rider “Eric Grimm” Name: Eric Grimm Currently living: Irvine, California Horse’s Name: Remise Horse Breed: Oldenburg Riding Age: 1965 What or who inspired you to ride Dressage?Riding runs in the family. My mother rode saddle seat as a child and then rode hunters, and fox hunted, as an adult. […]
Featured Rider May 2019 AADA Featured Rider “Susan Sapino” Name: Alana Andrews Currently living: Green Township New Jersey Horse’s Name: Lord Snow Horse Breed: Oldenburg Riding Age: I started riding at 5 years old. Though took a break from 18-30 What or who inspired you to ride Dressage?I do not come from a “horsey” family, […]
Featured Rider April 2019 AADA Featured Rider “Alana Andrews” Name: Alana Andrews Currently living: Los Angeles Horse’s Name: Caju Horse Breed: Lusitano What or who inspired you to ride Dressage?My mom inspired me since she asked me to go on a horse shopping trip to Spain with her. She was looking for a dressage horse, […]
Featured Rider March 2019 AADA Featured Rider “Anke Ott” Name: Anke Ott Currently living: New Canaan Connecticut Horses currently owned: Mercenario FC 15 years old, PRE approved breeding Stallion Favorite Horse’s Name: barn name “Matcho” When did you start riding: As a 9 year old girl in Saarland, Germany. What or who inspired you to ride […]
Featured Rider February 2019 AADA Featured Rider “Ruth Shirkey” Name: Ruth Shirkey Currently living in Livermore, California (SF Bay Area) Horses currently owned: Wyleigh Princess, Hanoverian mare, coming 9 Royal Rhapsody (Roxie), Hanoverian filly, Weanling I started riding in the Dressage discipline in 2004. Prior to that, ever since I was a toddler, I have […]
Featured Rider January 2019 AADA Featured Rider “Dawn Metzger” I currently live near The Woodlands, Texas, about 40 Miles north of Houston. My current horse: Corrado M, a 17 year old Andalusian gelding.He is my favorite horse. I started riding around age 12, and got my first horse, a quarter horse mare at age 16 […]
Featured Rider December 2018 AADA Featured Rider “Timmie Pollock, Phd” Name: Timmie Pollock Where do you live: California Current Horse(s) Name, breed and age: Tiadoro Hanoverian Age 8 Finnegan Westphalen branded Oldenburg Age 8 Narcissa Hanoverian Age 27 (retired) Dam of Tiadoro Silhouette Oldenburg Age 21 (retired) Dam of Finnegan Daughter of Narcissa Favorite […]