Local riding instructor earns Germany’s highest equestrian teaching qualification

East Mountains, Albuquerque, NM -- Thursday, June 1, 2006 -- Ulla Hudson has been awarded Germany’s top qualification for equestrian trainers, the Trainer A of the German FN (Reitlehrer, FN) . After a month of intensive training and examination in Europe, Ms. Hudson was awarded the degree of Trainer A in both jumping and dressage. She is the only trainer in New Mexico, and one of only a handful outside Germany, with this advanced qualification. At the same time, she received the German FN Silver Performance medal in Dressage and Jumping. Ulla Hudson already holds the Silver and Bronze Medals of the United States Dressage Federation.

"This has been my dream since I was six years old,” said Ulla, who with her husband Patrick Hudson MD, is the owner of Windsong Dressage and Equestrian Center. Windsong is an 80 acre horse farm in the East Mountains within easy reach of both Santa Fe and Albuquerque.

"With my new qualifications, I can develop the finest teaching program that truly meets the diverse needs of my many students," she said. "My students will be assured of having the best possible teaching available to help them develop into first class riders, whether in dressage or jumping."

Ulla Hudson was born in Germany and came to the United States in 1979. She founded Windsong Dressage and Equestrian Center in 1984. She has been a resident of New Mexico since 1981.

Dressage is an international Olympic discipline that seeks to train horses in obedience and precision of movement. Windsong Dressage and Equestrian Center is a complete horse facility that offers boarding, training, riding instruction, tack sales and horse importation.