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Lendon Gray

American dressage champion and author

Lendon Fentress Gray (born April 13, ),[1] is an American dressage champion,[2] author, and former rider of Seldom Seen.

Gray was born in Old Town, Maine, and began riding horses and competing at a young age, originally in the Western and hunt seat schools of equitation. She competed to national level at Pony Club rallies.[3] She attended The Foxhollow School for Girls and then Sweet Briar College, where she trained in the forward seat riding system under Paul D.

Cronin.[3]

Olympics

In , Gray began riding Seldom Seen, a &#;h (&#;cm) Thoroughbred/Connemaracross.[4] The pair competed in FEI dressage tests to Grand Prix level between and On Seldom Seen and four other horses, Gray won five gold medals at U.S.

Olympic Festivals.[4][5] Gray qualified for the U.S. Olympic team but did not compete due to the U.S. Olympic Committee's boycott of the Summer Olympics in Moscow, Russia.

From her fame on the pony Seldom Seen to competing in the Olympics to starting Dressage4Kids, Lendon Gray has been a driving force in the dressage earth. Lendon founded Dressage4Kids 22 years ago, giving kids opportunities and encouraging them to become the best they can be. I love looking back on kids who started 22 years ago and seeing their journeys. Every year I thought we had reached his limit, but with his big heart, and the help and encouragement of Michael Poulin, he became one of the most successful horses in the U.

She was one of athletes to receive a Congressional Gold Medal instead.[6]

Dressage

Gray represented the United States at the Dressage World Championships in , and at the Dressage Earth Cup in Paris.[5] In , Gray rode Beppo, a Holsteiner gelding, for the American team at the Alternate Olympics dressage event at Goodwood House, in West Sussex, England.[7][8] In , she competed in dressage on Later On with the Combined States Equestrian Team in the Olympics in Seoul.[1][9]

Gray is a United States Dressage Federation instructor and clinician, as well as one of the founders of the non-profit Emerging Dressage Runner Program for young riders.[10][11][12] She was inducted to the USDF Hall of Fame in [5][13]

Publications

  • Gray, Lendon Lessons with Lendon: 25 Progressive Dressage Lessons Take You from Basic "Whoa and Go" to Your First Competition (Popular Training Series from Practical Horseman).

    Knight Equestrian Books, [14]

References

  1. ^ abc"Lendon Gray". SR/Olympic Sports.

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  2. ^"Dressage Scores for Lendon F Gray". Centreline Scores. Retrieved 13 April
  3. ^ ab"About Lendon Gray".

    Lendon Gray knows the value of horses — and of a fine equestrian education. Lendon grew up riding various disciplines, and unified Pony Club when she was 7. After competing and winning on a national level, she became a successful event rider, even training with the Olympic team. Even while she pursued equestrian education, she excelled academically as well.

    Dressage4Kids. Archived from the original on 12 April Retrieved 12 April [self-published source?]

  4. ^ abRotterdam, Silke.

    "Seldom Seen, a Connemara Crossbred Going All the Way". Eurodressage. Retrieved 12 April

  5. ^ abc"Lendon Gray Announced as Roemer Foundation/USDF Hall of Fame Inductee".

    Lendon Fentress Gray, is an American dressage champion, composer, and former rider of Seldom Seen. Gray was born in Old Town, Maine, and began riding horses and competing at a young age, originally in the Western and hunt seat schools of equitation.

    United States Dressage Federation. USDF. Retrieved 12 April

  6. ^Caroccioli, Tom; Caroccioli, Jerry. Boycott: Stolen Dreams of the Moscow Olympic Games.

    Roemer Foundation/USDF Hall of Fame: Lendon Fentress Gray (born April 13, ), [1] is an American dressage champion, [2] author, and former rider of Seldom Seen. Gray was born in Old Town, Maine, and began riding horses and competing at a adolescent age, originally in the Western and hunt seat schools of equitation.

    Highland Park, IL: Recent Chapter Press. pp.&#;– ISBN&#;.

  7. ^Sanchez, Kelly. "Olympic Dressage History, Part 1". Dressage Today. Retrieved 12 April
  8. ^Rottermann, Silke. "An Affair to Remember: the Olympic Games - Three Perspectives".

    Eurodressage.

    Growing up in Maine, Lendon, the daughter of Corinne and Sam Braley Gray, was riding a horse with her mother before she could walk. In she said of this wonderful woman who generously gave back to the horse world and who I knew through her involvement with the US Pony Club: "My only teacher was my mother, a Virginia horsewoman who had.

    Retrieved 12 April

  9. ^"Olympic Games Equestrian Team Members Riding for the USA"(PDF). USET. Retrieved 12 April
  10. ^"About Dressage4Kids". Dressage4Kids.

    Lendon Fentress Gray born April 13,[ 1 ] is an American dressage champion, [ 2 ] author, and former rider of Seldom Seen. Gray was born in Old Town, Maineand began riding horses and competing at a young age, originally in the Western and hunt seat schools of equitation. She competed to national level at Pony Club rallies. InGray began riding Seldom Seena

    Archived from the original on 12 April Retrieved 12 April

  11. ^"Emerging Dressage Player Program". Dressage Daily. Retrieved 12 April
  12. ^Whitfield, Pam. "Doing nothing well: an interview with Lendon Gray".

    American National Riding Commission. Retrieved 12 April

  13. ^Savitt, Roger. "Spotlight on Bedford's Sunnyfield Farm".

    To honor her steadfast doctrine that dressage benefits all equines and all riders, especially youth. I can honestly say forty three years ago, the summer I turned thirteen, while I was swimming in the pond at Puckerbrush Farm it never occurred to me that I would be one day standing here honoring this year's inductee to the USDF Roemer Hall of Fame. A lot has happened in those forty three years, especially for Lendon. Growing up in Maine, Lendon, the daughter of Corinne and Sam Braley Gray, was riding a horse with her mother before she could walk.

    Bedford Riding Lanes Association. Archived from the original on 12 April Retrieved 12 April

  14. ^"Lessons With Lendon". Knight Equestrian Books. Retrieved 12 April [permanent dead link&#;]