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Summer Dressage Festival Schedule

As we get closer to the start of our Summer Dressage Festival, please take note of the times and days of the upcoming activities. See you soon!

Hampton Green Farm Announces a Summer Dressage Festival With Lendon Gray and Victor Alvarez, And -Chicks in Spurs-: a Not-for-Dressage-Queens-Only Party and Benefit for the Dressage Foundation

Please join us for a week-long event celebrating the Art of Dressage—its Mentors and Riders—at Hampton Green Farm in Fruitport, MI, August 9-17.

Come as you are and enjoy Chef Frederic’s food, dancing, and riding exhibitions by local riders.

Lendon Gray is a two-time Olympian and long-time dressage instructor and mentor who has focused her teaching energies on young riders. Professionals who have come through her programs include Chris Hickey, Alison Sader, Nancy Later, and Courtney King—who has represented the United States the past two years at the World Cup Finals and is a contender for the US Olympic Team in Hong Kong. In addition to her work with young riders in Dressage4Kids and the Dressage Youth Festival, Lendon is on the USET F Advisory Board; the USEF Dressage Committee, the USEF High Performance Committee, the Strategic Planning Committee, and Youth Sports Committee. With the USDF Lendon is Chairman of the Youth Council, on the Test Writing Committee, the Regional Championships Committee, the Planning Committee, the Instructor Trainer Council, and Chairman of the FEI Instructor Certification Committee. Additionally, she is a USDF Instructor Certification Examiner and she is a member of the Board of Governors of the US Pony Club. Lendon will assume the role of President and Chief Executive Officer of the Dressage Foundation in September 2008.

Victor Alvarez is the founder and Director of the C.A.V.A. Center for Dressage and Competition near Barcelona. He has competed internationally at the Grand Prix for many years with PRE horses and has trained in Germany with Herbert Rehbein and George Theodorescu and others. He has been the Coach for the Spanish Young Rider Team, is a National-Level Dressage Judge in Spain, and is a member of the Spanish National Dressage Team. With his young Grand Prix PRE horse, Iles, Victor competed this past year successfully in several CDIs in Europe, including the European Championships last summer. Last November, Victor and Iles placed Third in the Grand Prix behind Juan Matute and Beatriz Ferrer-Salat at the Spanish National Dressage Championships.
Victor's academic and classical style of riding has been called "aristocratic" in the European press and he brings his knowledge of the German training system to the instruction of all breeds

The Dressage Foundation is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization, whose mission is to cultivate and provide financial support for the advancement of dressage. In 2007, The Dressage Foundation awarded more than $112,000 in scholarships and grants. All of the funding for the grants and scholarships was provided by significant contributions from donors. This funding provided monetary assistance to hundreds of young dressage riders, adult amateurs, freestyle, instructors and judges to advance their knowledge and experience in the sport of dressage. Over the past 10 years, under the management of John and Lynn Boomer, The Dressage Foundation has awarded more than $782,000.00 in scholarships and grants to support riders of all ages and to further the sport.