Top American judge Tom Poulin will fly to Bermuda to oversee the Bermuda Dressage Group’s first show of the 2012/13 season.The show will be staged at Vesey Street on Saturday, September 22. Poulin has been an influential member of the American dressage community longer than many riders today have been alive. In his lengthy career he has been recognised as a top rider, trainer, USEF ‘S’ judge, instructor, and clinician, and is one of the driving forces behind the development of dressage as a sport in the United States.A successful rider and competitor through Grand Prix, Poulin honed his skills while training with Franz Rockowonsky in Holland and Walter Christensen in Germany and has worked with many gifted trainers, including Werner Platzer, Ernst Backinger, Arthur Kottas, and Hans Moeller. As a result of these opportunities, Poulin enjoyed many successes in the ring, was a three-time winner of the prestigious Lufthansa Trophy for excellence at FEI and was an invited rider for USEF International Judges Forums.Earlier this summer the BDG held their annual awards for the 2011/12 season which saw Dawn Fox and her 10-year-old mount Lancelot win the Advance Test in style with the pair recording the highest score locally since the award was initially given in 2002. They scored 66.419%. Fox and Lancelot also won the Prix St George’s Test with a score of 61.184%.