The Carol Lavell Gifted Fund

This Fund was seeded with Donations received in special remembrance of Carol's great dressage horse, Gifted.   Many other friends of The Dressage Foundation have added Donations and the Scholarship Fund has grown steadily over the years.  This Scholarship enables Adult Amateurs to set aside quality-time, in concentrated training away from the daily pressures of job and family, with a horse the recipient owns.

Each year The Dressage Foundation receives a larger number of applications for this Scholarship.  In order to give this opportunity to as many new Adult Amateurs as possible, we award the scholarship only once to a recipient.

Thanks to a very large, generous donation from Gordon Cadwgan, Carol's father, the amount of each scholarship increased in 2011!  Now, up to nine scholarships (one in each USDF Region) of $1,000 each will be offered each year.  Should a scholarship not be awarded in a given Region, the money will remain in the Gifted Fund at the Foundation.

Congratulations to the 2011 Recipients, who will train in 2012:

You can view past recipients in the archive.