The 2025-2026 USEF/NAYC Dressage Qualifying Calendar has been posted! Please review the approved calendar here.

 

Please note: this is a 2-year calendar through August of 2026. Competition managers are encouraged to review the 2025 USEF/NAYC Dressage Qualifying Calendar Competition Manual. This manual is for approved qualifying competitions held in 2025 and is intended to provide information to USEF/NAYC qualifying competition management for planning purposes

 

Minimum entry requirements for athletes of USA FEI sport nationality entering CDIs can be found in Annex B, which is posted on the USEF website here.

 

IMPORTANT: If you intend to compete in a U.S. FEI competition, your entry must be submitted via the USEF Athlete Dashboard  no later than 4 p.m. ET on the definite entry date. You can view definite entry dates for all FEI competitions in the USEF Athlete Dashboard. Late entries or changes to existing entries may be accepted after the definite entry date with the approval of the competition’s organizing committee no later than 4 p.m. ET on the last date for substitutions as stated on the FEI schedule. However, late entries are subject to a $75 late entry fee.

​Discover Dressage / FEI North American Youth Championship (NAYC);

July 29 – August 3, 2025 / Traverse City, Mich.

   -Children Selection Procedures

   -Junior and Young Rider Selection Procedures

   -U25 Selection Procedures

 

U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions;

August 18-25, 2025 / Wayne, Ill.

   -Grand Prix, Intermediaire I, & Brentina Cup Qualifying Requirements

   -Young & Developing Horse Qualifying Requirements

   -Youth Division Qualifying Requirements

   -Para Dressage Qualifying Requirements

Applications for the 2025 Festival open on December 1, 2024

 

European Youth Tours

   -U.S. Dressage European Young Rider Tour Selection Memo

   -U.S. Dressage European U25 Tour Selection Memo

   -Aachen CDIY Selection Memo

Applications are due March 3, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. E.T.​

 

If you have any questions, please contact the USEF Dressage Department Dressage@usef.org or Festival@usef.org.

The 2025 U.S. Dressage Funding Principles can be found online here. Questions should be directed to Laura Roberts, USEF Managing Director, Dressage, LRoberts@usef.org.

The following rule changes to the Dressage chapter of the USEF Rulebook will go into effect for the 2025 competition season, which begins on December 1, 2024. The 2025 USEF Rulebook can be found here.

 

DR120.2, Weather Conditions: When very cold weather conditions are forecasted on the date of a competition, competition management may publish in its prize list that windbreakers or parkas may be worn, rather than riding jackets, for the duration of the competition. Alternatively, management may announce prior to or during a competition that competitors may wear windbreakers or parkas rather than riding jackets when very cold weather is forecasted. These waivers apply to national classes at a USEF licensed-USDF recognized dressage competition.

 

DR202.10 – Dressage Sport Horse Breeding - General Regulations: The requirements of DR126.2.d and DR123.9 apply to DSHB divisions and classes, including the requirement to provide shelter from weather for judges at outdoor competitions.

 

If you have questions regarding these rule changes, contact Lauren Moore, Director, Sport Management Administration, at dressage@usef.org.

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