The USEF National Developing Horse Dressage Championships will award two national titles for the first time in 2012. Many graduates of the Markel/USEF National Young Horse Dressage Program have thrived in the Developing Horse Dressage ranks and ultimately progressed to the international stage. 

The Reserve Champion from the 2011 USEF National Developing Horse Dressage Championship sponsored by The Dutta Corp and Performance Sales International, Pie, has thrived this year on the most competitive stages. In April, Pie and Caroline Roffman represented the U.S. on the winning team at the WEF Wellington Dressage Nations Cup CDIO 3* before claiming the USEF National Intermediaire I Dressage Championship in June at USEF Dressage Festival of Champions.

USEF National Developing Horse Prix St. Georges Dressage Championship presented by The Dutta Corp and Performance Sales International
Once again the best young and rising Prix St. Georges horses will vie for coveted honors in the USEF National Developing Horse Prix St. Georges Dressage Championship presented by The Dutta Corp and Performance Sales International. Competition gets underway Friday with all competitors contesting the FEI Prix St. Georges Test with the score counting for 40% of the championship total. They will then return on Sunday to perform the USEF Developing Horse Test, which will determine the remaining 60%of the overall average and the 2012 champion.

A classy field of 15 lines up in 2012 to demonstrate their skills as the top young Prix St. Georges horses. Including, six-year-old winner from the 2011 Markel/USEF National Young Horse Dressage Championship, Wakeup (Wagnis - Maiden Montreal by Macho). The American Warmblood stallion stands third on the USEF Developing Horse Prix St. Georges Dressage Championship Ranking List with rider and owner Emily Wagner.
The top placed pair from the ranking list, Amy Stuhr and Greenwood Sporthorses’ Wies V/D Klumpert (Future-Sarina V D Klumpert by Havidoff) will look to show the form they have displayed throughout the year. Greenwood Sporthorses’ nine-year-old KWPN mare heads to Lamplight having accrued an overall average of 73.456%.

USEF Developing Horse Grand Prix Championship supported by Hilda Gurney and Carol Lavell
In its first year, the USEF Developing Horse Grand Prix Championship supported by Hilda Gurney and Carol Lavell aims to help horses make the transition to the highest level. Just as with the Prix St. Georges division they will perform two tests, with the first counting for 40% of the overall average and the remaining 60% being determined in the Final Test. Competition gets underway Thursday as the combinations perform the FEI Intermediaire II Test and wraps up Saturday with the USEF Developing Grand Prix Test.

The winner of the Developing Horse Championship in 2011, Horses Unlimited's Pikko del Cerro HU (Pik L- Rohweena by Rohdiamant), heads the nine horse field in the inaugural championship. The nine-year-old Hanoverian stallion also topped the USEF Developing Horse Prix St. Georges Dressage Championship Ranking List with rider Lisa Wilcox. He will have plenty of competition from all entries, which include second ranked Agastrofos (Briar 899-Hera by Nocturne 877). The 10-year-old Swedish Warmblood stallion has spent much of the season competing in the Southeast with rider Endel Ots and looks to impress for owner Taunia Reed.