Dressage Found Newsltr 2013 9/9/13 2:36 PM Page 1 The ® Dressage Foundation2013 News EDITION History in the Making TDF and the Spanish Riding School Partner to Offer an Educational Experience of a Lifetime round the world, the Spanish dents starting in 2013. Ralph immedi- Riding School’s name is syn- ately thought of the dressage riders onymousA with our sport’s traditions, back home who could benefit from history, and classical meth- such an incredible educa- ods of training. To walk the tional experience. The grounds of the Spanish Dreitzler family has a strong Riding School would be a tie with the SRS, as Ralph’s dream for many U.S. dres- mother, E.L. Dreitzler, was sage riders. To train with one of the first women to the famed SRS riders would ever train at the Spanish be unimaginable. Riding School. Her passion Until now. for classical training was passed down When Ralph and Freddie Dreitzler to Ralph, who has also trained at the of Kirkland, Washington, visited their SRS. Photo by Kathleen Bryan friends and colleagues at the Spanish The Dreitzler family worked with Suzie Halle’ of Colorado Riding School in October of 2012, Training Director, Oberbereiter they learned that the SRS was going to Andreas Hausberger, to establish the Memory of E.L. Dreitzler at The open its doors for international stu- Heldenberg Training Center Fund in Dressage Foundation. Thanks to the generosity of the Dreitzlers, this fund Jennifer Shepherd will provide financial assistance to of North Carolina non-professional, North American rid- ers to attend educational sessions at the Heldenberg Training Center. “The goal of the Heldenberg Training Center Fund is to provide assistance to students to participate in the same training atmosphere, with the same expertise that my mother had the privilege of receiving,” said Ralph. “It was a perfect match for a memorial: an opportunity to promote classical riding, the SRS, and Lipizzans, three things she was passionate about.” Earlier this year, two adult amateurs (continued on page 5) Photo by Jagg Photography Dressage Found Newsltr 2013 9/9/13 2:36 PM Page 2 Table of Contents Messages . .PAGE From Ralph F. Dreitzler III, President . 3 Foundation Grants/Scholarships Grants, Scholarships, and Programs Available for Young Riders, Adult Amateurs, Judges, Instructors, Breeders, High Performance Riders, and Educational Events The Dressage Foundation News Heldenberg Training Center Fund in Memory of E.L. Dreitzler: is published by History in the Making . 1 The Dressage Foundation International Dream Program: Learning from the Best . 6 1314 ‘O’ Street, Suite 305 Gifted Fund for Adult Amateurs: Dedicating Time to Their Passion . 8 Lincoln, NE 68508 Major Anders Lindgren Scholarship and the Continuing Education Telephone: 402/434-8585 for Instructors Fund: Training the Trainers . 10 Fax: 402/436-3053 Renee Isler Dressage Support Fund: Email: A Young Rider’s Unexpected Journey . 12 [email protected] Anne Barlow Ramsay Grant: Liz Austin and Olivier . 13 Website: Patsy Albers Award Fund: Honoring a Dressage Icon . 14 www.DressageFoundation.org Violet M. Hopkins Fund & Dancing Horse Fund: Providing Education for All . 15 Funding Available from TDF . 16 The Dressage Foundation is a The Century Club non-profit tax-exempt corporation Inspirational Advice from Century Club Members . 18 [IRS Code Sec. 501(c)(3)]. Century Club Sponsors: Honoring an Older Generation . 19 All donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. Charitable Planned Giving Becoming a Sustaining Partner . 20 Make a Difference: Ways to Give . 20 Dressage at Sunset: A Young Rider’s Benefit for The Dressage Foundation . 21 The publication is sent free of charge to Foundation Donors and About the Foundation friends. It is also posted on TDF Board of Directors . 3 The Dressage Foundation’s website, State Representatives: We’re in Your Neighborhood . 22 www.DressageFoundation.org, 2012 Donor Listing . 23 and is available to read or print Win a County Perfection Saddle . 24 as an Adobe® PDF file. © Copyright 2013 2 Dressage Found Newsltr 2013 9/9/13 2:36 PM Page 3 President’s Message Perfect Partners ressage is a sport of partner- For example, the International All of our programs depend on your ships. No matter your aspira- Dream Program just completed the generosity as a donor. If you have any tions,D it takes a team to succeed – a twelfth trip to Europe with an itinerary questions, please feel free to contact team of dedicated people who strive full of incredible educational opportu- Jenny Johnson, Administrative toward mutual goals, with the well- nities for the young rider participants Director, at (402) 434-8585. She will being of the horse in mind. and volunteer chaperones. be happy to discuss the many ways of The Dressage Foundation is a This year we also have a new pro- charitable giving – ways that can be perfect partner for the well-being of gram for which two participants were mutually advantageous to you, the dressage in our country. Because of chosen to go to the Spanish Riding Foundation, and dressage. the generosity of those on our team, School’s new training center in Our team is a strong one, and we we are able to continue providing Heldenberg, Austria to participate in thank everyone involved with The grants and scholarships to those theoretical sessions. This program Dressage Foundation for their part who wish to expand their knowledge of adds to our line up of wonderful oppor- in fulfilling our mission to provide classical dressage principles. tunities that donors have created over financial support for the advancement In this issue of our annual the past few years. of dressage. We invite you to join newsletter, you will find many examples Staff and new volunteers are mak- us as we look toward 2014, our of the continuing ing concentrated efforts to increase 25th year. partnerships visibility for TDF across the country, so Happy reading and keep striving for between our more riders are aware of the help avail- those 10’s. donors, grant able to them in their pursuit of classi- recipients, staff, cal dressage perfection. We remain and volunteers. committed to supporting all aspects of our sport. Ralph F. Dreitzler III President Ralph F. Dreitzler III THE DRESSAGE FOUNDATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS Michael Poulin (FL) Chairman Vivien Bobo (MA) Michael Matson (MD) Maryal Barnett (MI) Vice Chairman Barbara A. Cadwell (FL) Karin Reid Offield (MI) Judith Noone (MA) Treasurer Joseph E. Carr (KY) Eliza Sydnor-Romm (NC) Hilary Moore-Hebert (MD) Secretary Hilda Gurney (CA) John F. Boomer (NE) Emeritus Ralph F. Dreitzler III (WA) President Jonathan R. Burton (AZ) Emeritus Beth Baumert (CT) Vice President 3 Dressage Found Newsltr 2013 9/9/13 2:36 PM Page 4 FOUNDATION GRANTS/SCHOLARSHIPS Overcoming the Odds How E.L. Dreitzler worked to bring classical dressage and Lipizzans to America By Hilary Moore Hebert, Senior Editor instruction at the Spanish Riding Once her breeding program was at Dressage Today and Secretary of the School. established, Dreitzler devoted her life TDF Board of Directors That fall, Dreitzler purchased the to promoting the Lipizzan and dressage stallion, Maestoso Brezova II, one of through teaching, training and exhibi- ou could say that U.S. breeder the few trained stallions sold by the tions across North America. She was E.L. Dreitzler’s dream of school. She also purchased four mares, one of the opening features at the expandingY the Lipizzan breed ended including Tekla, the only mare known 1962 Seattle World’s Fair Exposition just as it began—with a single stallion. to the Spanish Riding School to have with performances on Maestoso But, to tell this as a tragedy misses the completed high-school training. They Brezova II and Tekla. Raflyn Farms real story—that of a true horsewoman, all arrived in Washington in January of even made it to Hollywood when its who despite incredible obstacles, left 1961. stallion, Pluto Calcedona, starred in an even more incredible legacy. With the help of Col. Alois Buffalo Bill and the Indians with Paul Dreitzler’s goals to import and Podhajsky, Raflyn Farms had horses Newman. breed pure Lipizzan stock at her Raflyn from the six foundation Lipizzan lines Despite a riding accident in 1967 Farms in Snohomish, Washington, (Pluto, Conversano, Maestoso, Favory, that handicapped Dreitzler, she con- reached a milestone in 1960. The Neopolitano and Siglavy) by 1962. tinued to promote the Lipizzan breed beginning of the year marked the Dreitzler insisted on the strictest and dressage discipline. She was still arrival of Neopolitano Bellornata, a breeding requirements at the farm, able to ride sidesaddle and redirected Lipizzan stallion trained at the Spanish requiring that all Lipizzans bred there her focus to teaching more dressage. Riding School in Vienna, Austria. have verifiable Austrian stock. Her She also spent time ensuring that her That fall, by invitation of the Austrian strict standards earned them an autho- children were classically trained in the government and the Spanish Riding rization to use the branding system of discipline. Daughter Evelyn worked School, Dreitzler was invited to train pure Austrian and Spanish Riding with masters like Podhajsky and, along for two weeks in the art of classical School Lipizzans. Raflyn Farms’ brand with her brother Ralph, Col. Hans dressage and high-school riding at the was a Crown D rather than the Handler. school. She was one of only four Austrian Crown P before it moved to It seemed, by the early ‘70s, that women in history to ever receive riding tattooing the lip with the same mark. Dreitzler’s dream to breed and pro- E.L. and Ralph Dreitzler working with Tekla mote the purebred Lipizzan in the United States was realized and noth- ing could get in her way.