U.S. Starts Strong On First Day Of Paralympic Team Competition

Tokyo The U.S. Para Dressage Team finished the first day of team competition at Equestrian Park in Tokyo and will have one more rider Sunday before team medal positions are decided. Roxanne Trunnell and Dolton led as the first team ride of the evening, contesting the FEI Grade I Team Test to Music where they received an […]

Tarjan’s Quartet Dominates At U.S. Dressage Festival Of Champions

Wayne, Ill.—Aug. 27 Dressage riders tend to strive for perfection, but sometimes you just have to brush off the mistakes and move on. For Alice Tarjan, the Grand Prix Special today with Candescent wasn’t perfect, with some mistakes in her two tempis, a piroutte and a canter half-pass, but she chalked them up to honest […]

U.S. Team Announced For Paralympic Team Competition

The U.S. Para-Dressage Team for the Tokyo Paralympic team test has been named. The three-person team to ride the FEI Team Test to Music will consist of newly crowned Paralympic gold medalists Roxanne Trunnell and Dolton in Grade I, plus Rebecca Hart and El Corona Texel in Grade III and Kate Shoemaker and Solitaer 40 […]

For The Win: Trunnell Takes Paralympic Individual Gold

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to include results from the Grade III individual medal competition. Roxanne Trunnell won individual bronze during the 2018 Tryon World Equestrian Games, but the international buzz around the paraequestrian started building in earnest in 2020, when she earned three consecutive scores above 80 percent to boost her to […]

Tarjan Takes Two Mares To The Top At The U.S. Dressage Festival Of Champions

Wayne, Ill.—Aug. 26 Some people might say Alice Tarjan has a “type” of horse. Yes, she can often be found on stunning, big-moving black mares, but the amateur rider insists that’s not on purpose. She’s brought seven horses to compete at the U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions this week, and each one is different in […]

My Merry Way Makes His Merry Way To U.S. Dressage Festival Of Champions

When Abigail Taft pulled My Merry Way out of his owner’s field in 2018, she wasn’t sure what she wanted to do with him. She started schooling him on the flat and then he was used for lessons. By 2019, “Astro” was jobless again, and she began riding him—seriously, this time— and took him to his first recognized show, at […]