2025 Competition Starts at Global Dressage Festival, the Premier Dressage Show Center in USA

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Adrienne Lyle with Helix at the 2025 inaugural Global Dressage Festival veterinary check. America’s No. 1 rider and horse combination and on the 2024 Paris Olympic team is seeking to qualify at Wellington for the World Cup Final in April. © 2025 Ken Braddick/DRESSAGE-NEWS.com

WELLINGTON, Florida, Jan. 8, 2025–Competition at the Global Dressage Festival starts Thursday that has become the premier dressage show center in the United States. After 14 years at the current location, work goes on nearby for new dressage show grounds within the long established Winter Equestrian Festival facility of jumpers.

Riders from eight nations from North and South America, Europe and Australia are lined up for first of seven weeks of GDF international competitions through the end of March.

Among the highlights of this year’s circuit is that the Big Tour freestyles will also be qualifiers for the newly created $250,000 US Open series along with events throughout the country, open to riders from all nations leading to a final in California in December.

 

Devon Kane and Vamos ranked in the top three contenders for one of the three places reserved for North America in the World Cup Final. © 2025 Ken Braddick/DRESSAGE-NEWS.com

 

Sweden’s seven-time Olympian Tinne Vilhelmson Silfvén with Devanto in the rider’s 15th year of competing on Florida’s winter circuit. © 2025 Ken Braddick/DRESSAGE-NEWS.com

 

Hope Beerling, USA-based Australian rider, and Evaslunds Daydream set to compete in Global’s Small Tour. Hope has shown in the USA since 2019, and competed at the World Young Horse Championships in 2023. © 2025 Lily Forado

 

Spain’s Pablo Gómez Molina and Farinel Di Fonteabeti to ride in Global’s CDI1* Prix St. Georges. © 2025 Ken Braddick/DRESSAGE-NEWS.com