Passage Magazine August 2014 | Page 9

Can you tell me how to first got started riding dressage? Initially when I began riding, I wanted to be an eventer. Some of the girls my age who rode at the barn convinced me to compete at Lendon Gray's Youth Dressage Festival. It was 1999; the first year she ran that show. I had such an amazing time that since that one show, I have been riding dressage. How did you find your current horse? Verdades aka "Diddy" was found by my mother and I from a sales tape of foals. He was imported to our barn in Vermont as a weanling. How did it feel to find out you were heading to Europe to compete? To find out that I was he