Lendon Gray Explained

Lendon Gray
Birth Name:Lendon Fentress Gray
Birth Date:April 12, 1949
Birth Place:Old Town, Maine
Nationality:American
Occupation:dressage rider, riding instructor, author

Lendon Fentress Gray (born April 13, 1949), is an American dressage champion,[1] author, and former rider of Seldom Seen.

Gray was born in Old Town, Maine, and began riding horses and competing at a young age, originally in the Western and hunt seat schools of equitation. She competed to national level at Pony Club rallies. She attended The Foxhollow School for Girls and then Sweet Briar College, where she trained in the forward seat riding system under Paul D. Cronin.[2]

Olympics

In 1975, Gray began riding Seldom Seen, a 14.2hands Thoroughbred/Connemara cross. The pair competed in FEI dressage tests to Grand Prix level between 1977 and 1987. On Seldom Seen and four other horses, Gray won five gold medals at U.S. Olympic Festivals.[3] Gray qualified for the 1980 U.S. Olympic team but did not compete due to the U.S. Olympic Committee's boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Russia. She was one of 461 athletes to receive a Congressional Gold Medal instead.[4]

Dressage

Gray represented the United States at the Dressage World Championships in 1978, and at the 1991 Dressage World Cup in Paris. In 1980, Gray rode Beppo, a Holsteiner gelding, for the American team at the Alternate Olympics dressage event at Goodwood House, in West Sussex, England.[5] [6] In 1988, she competed in dressage on Later On with the United States Equestrian Team in the 1988 Olympics in Seoul.[7] [8]

Gray is a United States Dressage Federation instructor and clinician, as well as one of the founders of the non-profit Emerging Dressage Athlete Program for young riders.[9] [10] [11] She was inducted to the USDF Hall of Fame in 2011.[12] [13]

Publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Dressage Scores for Lendon F Gray. Centreline Scores. 13 April 2015.
  2. Web site: About Lendon Gray. Dressage4Kids. 12 April 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150412084144/http://www.dressage4kids.org/about-dressage4kids/about-lendon-gray/. 12 April 2015.
  3. Web site: Rotterdam. Silke. Seldom Seen, a Connemara Crossbred Going All the Way. Eurodressage. 12 April 2015.
  4. Book: Caroccioli. Tom. Caroccioli. Jerry. Boycott: Stolen Dreams of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games. New Chapter Press. Highland Park, IL. 978-0942257403. 243–253.
  5. Web site: Sanchez. Kelly. Olympic Dressage History, Part 1. Dressage Today. 12 April 2015.
  6. Web site: Rottermann. Silke. An Affair to Remember: the 1980 Olympic Games - Three Perspectives. Eurodressage. 12 April 2015.
  7. Web site: Lendon Gray. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418081251/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gr/lendon-gray-1.html. dead. 18 April 2020. SR/Olympic Sports. 12 April 2015.
  8. Web site: Olympic Games Equestrian Team Members Riding for the USA. USET. 12 April 2015.
  9. Web site: About Dressage4Kids. Dressage4Kids. 12 April 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150412112843/http://www.dressage4kids.org/about-dressage4kids/. 12 April 2015.
  10. Web site: Emerging Dressage Athlete Program. Dressage Daily. 12 April 2015.
  11. Web site: Whitfield. Pam. Doing nothing well: an interview with Lendon Gray. American National Riding Commission. 12 April 2015.
  12. Web site: Lendon Gray Announced as 2011 Roemer Foundation/USDF Hall of Fame Inductee. United States Dressage Federation. USDF. 12 April 2015.
  13. Web site: Savitt. Roger. Spotlight on Bedford's Sunnyfield Farm. Bedford Riding Lanes Association. 12 April 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150412112702/http://www.bedfordridinglanes.com/spotlight_sunnyfield_farm.html. 12 April 2015. dead.
  14. Web site: Lessons With Lendon. Knight Equestrian Books. 12 April 2015.

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