2025 Annual Meeting

October 27th - 30th, 2025

We are so excited to host the 2025 ATA Annual Convention and Membership Meeting at the beautiful Virginia Horse Center located in the rolling hills of Lexington, Virginia!

Come celebrate with us the many successes of the American Trakehner Association, its members, its horses, and the breed during the last year!

Enjoy

Welcome Reception will be held on on Tuesday, October 28th at 6 PM at ATA President Laurie Lanpher's Stone Crest Farm, adjoining the cross-country course of the Virginia Horse Center.
Awards Dinner will be held on Wednesday, October 29th at 6:30 PM at the Convention hotel, the Best Western at Hunt Ridge. The meal will be catered by the popular local Lexington restaurant Gina's Trattoria.

Cheer for the increasingly large number of foals registered, new members added, and ATA horses competing around the world and winning awards!

Schedule of Events

October 28
8 AM Inspections begin for mares, foals, stallions and performance horses
Lunch Break
6 PM Oktoberfest Welcome Reception at Laurie Lanpher's Sone Crest Farm
October 29
8 AM Inspections continue
Lunch Break
4 PM Sperber-Lenken Stud Memorial Jump Cup
6:30 PM Awards dinner in convention hotel catered by Gina's Trattoria
October 30
8 AM Annual Meeting and election of officers
Convention concludes
12 PM FEI jogs for the Virginia Horse Center Eventing Fall

Come make your voice heard at the meeting! And come to celebrate Trakehners – the first horse breed now recognized as a German “Intangible Cultural Heritage”