We’ve finally set a date to have a clinic!! It’s going to be Saturday March 24, 2012. The theme will be Better Horse –Better Rider, Better Rider–Better Horse. Learn to do things you never thought you or your horse could do! We will focus on a Half Halt the rider can understand, Getting a Better Stop (which is the basis of a better half halt), Getting Better Connection to the Bit and Improving the Gaits of the Horse. As always, if ground work is needed or wanted, which always helps the under saddle work, we’ll be working on Respect from the Horse on the Ground. This can cover anything from leading to having the horse respect your space to standing for the farrier to “parallel parking” your horse for mounting.
We work with any breed of horse for any discipline. Although we specialize in dressage we can help gaited horses improve their gaits, trail horses be more responsive and safe on the trail, show horses in classes like western pleasure, hunter pleasure, etc, be softer and more brilliant in their work.
We work each horse/person pair at our clinic where we feel they will benefit most and/or where they want to work. Our methods apply to all horses of all disciplines as we strive to teach the horse from the horse’s point of view, the person to work to understand how this works and the horse/person combination to work together to be better at everything they do.
So, anyone is welcome to come with anything they need help with!!
The clinic will start at 9:00 with a demonstration of some of the things we will be covering that day. We will pick horses for the demo that will show what the horses in the clinic will be striving for. We believe that a picture is worth a thousand words so if we can demonstrate what the clinicees (I don’t think that’s really a word) can see what they’re aiming for it will be easier for them to work on their horse to achieve it.
Cost for the clinic will be $125, which will include a stall. It is $20 to audit. There is a limit of 8 horses for the day. Often we work with the horse/person in the morning and again in the afternoon as the horse figures things out in that break time and comes back ready to build on what they learned in the morning but it’s always dependent on each horse. Lunch is provided and the arena and barn are heated!
Details will be coming on the website so keep checking but we wanted to get the word out so you can save the date!
