Welcome to the United States Refined Horsemanship Association

USRHA and Refined Horse Versatility

The USRHA provides avenues for both refining your partnership and expanding your options as well as the opportunity to connect with others who share your passion and interest through Refined Horse Versatility (RHV) clinics and competitions.

Through Refined Horse Versatility educational clinics, you will discover how to strengthen the partnership with your horse while enriching your horsemanship skills. Clinics cover a variety of topics including working obstacles to build teamwork, understanding biomechanics of the horse to improve performance, improving your horse’s trail skills and more.

Ready to showcase the partnership with your horse?  Refined Horse Versatility (RHV) competitions offer the perfect venue. RHV classes center around the refinement of dressage with the usefulness of working obstacles. The signature class of Refined Horse Versatility Two-Phase consists of two segments. In the Refined Riding Phase, you will ride a dressage test appropriate to your horse’s level of development. In the second phase, the Obstacle Phase, you will demonstrate the teamwork with your horse over a course of obstacles.

For those with young or developing horses, the In-Hand Obstacle and Suitability Two-phase classes are a great fit. In the In-Hand class, handlers will show over a course of obstacles in-hand only. The Suitability classes pair a walk-trot or walk-trot-canter under saddle class with an obstacle course phase.  For Soft-gaited horses, the Suitability class is walk-gait or walk-gait-canter.