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Get to Know 4 Horses from the USEF Dressage Festival of Champions

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Top U.S. horses and riders made their way to the U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions for a chance to earn national championship titles. While there, Katie Duerrhammer, Alice Tarjan and Adrienne Lyle shared insights about a few of the horses they competed at the event, held August 22–28, 2022 at HITS Chicago at Lamplight Equestrian Center in Wayne, Illinois.

Paxton

Paxton is an 11-year-old bay Westfalen gelding owned by Kylee Lourie of Colorado. He is by Dante Weltino OLD, out of Desiree, by Don Marco. Along with rider Katie Duerrhammer, Paxton competed in Rotterdam, where they were part of the Dutta Corp. U.S. Dressage Team that finished second at the FEI Dressage Nations Cup™ of the Netherlands. At

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