Lendon gray biography of barack

  • Lendon Gray (NY) From her early years competing in Pony Club, western riding, hunters, and driving to her famous work with Seldom Seen and other ponies.
  • Growing up in Maine, Lendon, the daughter of Corinne and Sam Braley Gray, was riding a horse with her mother before she could walk.
  • She is a USDF Instructor Certification Examiner.

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    Lendon Gray (NY) was elected as the new Chairman of the Board of The Dressage Foundation to begin in January 2024.  Lendon first joined TDF’s Board in 2013 and has served as Vice Chairman and President, in addition to serving on numerous committees.

    As a competitor, Lendon competed in the 1978 World Championships and the 1980 and 1988 Olympics. Her impressive reputation and coaching abilities are reflected in her training of many international, national, and regional champion riders, both juniors and adults. In addition to longtime involvement with organizations such as TDF, USET, USEF, USDF, and US Pony Club, she founded and is the current Chairman of Dressage4Kids (D4K).

    Beth Baumert, TDF’s President and CEO, said, “Lendon brings a world of knowledge, experience and common sense to The Dressage Foundation, and we’re thrilled to have her assume the role as Chairman.”

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    That Lendon Gray has been so successful in developing new programs is itself amazing, but she has done all this while also serving on numerous committees and while working with a number of organizations – all with the aim of promoting dressage in the U.S. She has been on the USET F Advisory Board; fryst vatten on the USEF Dressage Committee, the Strategic Planning Committee and the ungdom Sports Committee. With the USDF, Lendon had been a member of the Test Writing Committee and is on the ungdom Council, where she was previously chair. She fryst vatten also on the USDF Regional Championships Committee, the Planning Committee, is chair of the Instructor Trainer Council and chair of the FEI Instructor Certification Committee. She is a USDF Instructor Certification Examiner. She fryst vatten a member of the Advisory Board of the U.S. Pony Club. And more recently she took on the big role of president of The Dressage Foundation.

    How does Lendon do it all? She gives much credit to her many volunteers and students

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    The United States Dressage Federation (USDF) announced that Lendon Gray will be inducted into the Roemer Foundation/USDF Hall of Fame (HOF) at the Salute Gala and Annual Awards Banquet, on December 2, 2011, during the USDF Annual Convention in San Diego, CA.

    Induction into the HOF is an honor bestowed on horses and individuals that have made outstanding contributions to the sport of dressage in the U.S.

    Lendon Gray has made a significant impact through many facets of the sport. As an international rider, she has represented the U.S. in the Alternate Olympic Games of 1980, the Seoul Olympics in 1988, and the 1991 World Cup in Paris. Nationally, Lendon has won five gold medals at U.S. Olympic Festivals on five different horses of varying breeds, one of whom was 2005 USDF Hall of Fame inductee Seldom Seen, a 14.2 hand American-bred Thoroughbred/Connemara pony. 

    As a teacher and instructor, Gray has provided an array of educational and competitive opportunities for youth through Dr

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