Chuck Grant (1914-1990) was an accomplished American horseman who bridged the gap between competitive dressage and High School performance. In America the High School has been shown since the time of Tom Bass and Belle Beach by the highest class of trainers—men and women capable of bringing out a horse’s very best. Such people work successfully with horses of many breeds. Europeans who worked with Thoroughbreds, Andalusians, Lusitanos, Pinzgauers, Arabians, Lipizzans and Warmbloods include Nuno Oliveira, Angel Peralta-Pineda and Fredy Knie, Sr. They are echoed in America by the likes of Tom Bass, Belle Beach, Hiram Tuttle (see “Old Glory,” EQUUS 505) and Chuck Grant, who trained not only Saddlebreds but Thoroughbreds, Morgans, Arabians and their crosses, and (after 1974) Warmbloods.
Grant, who began who began in the Army Field Artillery Corps before the decommissioning of the
