The Virginia Horse Center in Lexington, Virginia, is a great gift of a venue for so many reasons: It’s super easy to get to, being at an intersection of two major highways; it’s in a proper town with a million hotels and restaurants and a cute downtown; and the board that runs it has poured resources into it, redoing the footing in nearly all of the arenas to international-grade surfaces for the English disciplines.
It’s also huge, which means that they have the ability to hold multiple different disciplines on the same weekend. Such is the Mid-Atlantic Dressage Festival and Lexington CDI3* (MADFest, for short), held in May alongside the Keswick Horse Show. International dressage, national dressage, hunters and jumpers, all together.
I freaking love it.
Read the rest at The Chronicle of the Horse!