Sport Horse Committee

Mission

To foster and advance the breeding and development of the highest quality dressage sport horses and to promote a strong foundation for the dressage sport horse development pipeline in the United States.

Goals

  1. To educate breeders, owners, buyers, handlers, trainers, and judges about the ideals of both dressage sport horse prospects and breeding stock.
  2. Encourage and acknowledge the efforts of USDF member breeders in producing the highest quality dressage sport horse.
  3. Provide dressage sport horse competition management, owners, and breeders with competition guidelines and opportunities.
  4. Promote USDF horse recordings and tracking of competition results.
  5. Nurture and develop future generations for the dressage sport horse breeding industry.
  6. Review and update all proposed USDF sport horse scoresheets and instruction documents.

Objectives

  1. Review and reformat the USDFBCS rules and applications for 2024.
  2. Host a USDF Sport Horse Seminar.
  3. Host a USDF Sport Horse Prospect Development Forum.
  4. Award first presentation of new Breeder of Distinction Awards; Sapphire, Ruby and Diamond levels.

Members

Position Region Name & Email Phone Fax
Chair 6 Kristi Wysocki (303) 324-3143
Vice Chair 9 Regina Milliken (985) 630-3418 (847) 888-1255
Advisor 1 Natalie DiBerardinis (802) 356-6900 (410) 658-9228
Advisor 7 Christine S Traurig (760) 931-9477
Liaison 2 Taylor Chism (859) 271-7878
Liaison 2 Bonnie Barr-Briggs (859) 971-7360 (859) 971-7722
Member 1 Janine W Malone (919) 269-7307
Member 1 Christine Louise Smith (540) 664-0234
Member 1 Melanie A. Sloyer (610) 420-2535 (610) 873-3045
Youth Ambassador 1 Caitlin Gallagher (484) 226-7366
Member 2 Megan R Dischler (920) 265-2145 (920) 662-9397
Member 2 Susan Mandas (937) 272-9068
Member 4 Deborah J Davenport (785) 218-8492
Member 5 Anne Sparks (505) 873-9043
Youth Ambassador 5 Shea Christine Johnson (915) 240-3710
Member 7 Melissa Creswick (559) 250-1226 (559) 323-9769
Member 8 Kathy Hickerson (603) 673-4344 (603) 672-0139
Youth Ambassador 9 Erin Bell-Altman (210) 870-3953