Get to Know Ashley Donadt
In The Irons
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14m
Ashley Donadt shares her early riding days and moving from Washington state to California in 2012 where she worked as a groom and assistant trainer for various dressage riders including David Blake, Rebecca Rigdon and Elizabeth “Beth” Ball. Donadt talks about her training with Ball as well as Olympian Guenter Seidel and World Cup rider AnnA Buffini and what she learned from each.
Donadt is an FEI dressage rider and USDF bronze and silver medalist with distinction. Along with husband/head groom Evan Donadt, she is based out of Donadt Dressage in San Diego, California.
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