Open House, Clinics, Ribbons and More – Late October Newsletter

By |2017-02-14T09:24:21-05:00October 24th, 2016|News & Events|

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9-Year-Anniversary Open House, November 19

By |2016-10-19T12:43:36-04:00October 19th, 2016|News & Events|

11SSH1195.CopyrightSusanJStickle.com.jpg.We’re celebrating nine years of dressage excellence! 

Join us for a day of riding demonstrations, farm tours and education at Virginia’s premier dressage training facility! USDF Gold, Silver and Bronze Medalist Lauren Sprieser; USDF Silver and Bronze Medalist Lisa Hellmer; and USDF Silver and Bronze Medalist Natasha Sprengers-Levine will demonstrate top-notch dressage training from green to Grand Prix, as well as Pas de Deux, Grand Prix Freestyle and Cavaletti exhibitions. And take a tour of our world-class 135-acre training facility to see why we’re the first choice for exceptional dressage training.

No charge for admission! Event sponsored by Tribute Equine Nutrition, Ucleke Equine and Shapley’s, with free gifts for all attendees!

November 19, 2016
10a-2p

10:30a – Pas de Deux Demonstration

11a – Bringing Young Horses Up The Levels

12:30p – Grand Prix Freestyle Demonstration

12:45p – Feeding The High Performance Athlete

1:30p – Cavaletti for Cross Training (And Fun!)

Questions? Email Lauren to learn more.

Schedule for Michael Barisone Clinic, October 29-30

By |2017-03-02T05:36:36-05:00October 18th, 2016|News & Events|

Below is the schedule for our October 29-30 clinic with US Olympian Michael Barisone. Auditing is $35/day if prepaid, or $40/day at the door, and lunch is included. For more information, email us!

SATURDAY
10:00 Jean Loonam & Red Hot Chili Pepper, 10 yr Hanoverian gelding, First Level
10:45 Natasha Sprengers-Levine & Ellavanta, 2009 KWPN-NA mare, First Level
11:30 Lauren Sprieser & Ellegria, 15 yr Westfalen mare, Grand Prix
12:15 Lunch
12:45 Lauren Sprieser & Danny Ocean, 2007 KWPN gelding, Prix St. Georges
1:30 Kristin Hickey & Capital Call, 12 yr KWPN gelding, Prix St. Georges
2:15 Lauren Sprieser & Johnny Road, 7 yr GOV gelding, Third Level
3:00 Becky Lee & Zarco, 6 yr KWPN gelding, Third Level
3:45 Lauren Sprieser & Fiero, 9 yr GOV gelding, Intermediate I
4:30 Liza Broadbent & Victorious, 14 yr KWPN gelding, Prix St. Georges
5:15 Judy Sprieser & Stratocaster, 10 yr GOV gelding, Third Level

SUNDAY
7:30 Lauren Sprieser & Ellegria, 15 yr Westfalen mare, Grand Prix
8:15 Natasha Sprengers-Levine & Hurricane, 4 yr KWPN Gelding, Training Level
9:00 Lauren Sprieser & Danny Ocean, 8 yr KWPN gelding, Prix St. Georges
9:45 Liza Broadbent & Victorious, 14 yr KWPN gelding, Prix St. Georges
10:30 Lauren Sprieser & Johnny Road, 7 yr GOV gelding, Third Level
11:15 Lisa Hellmer & Lyra, 12 yr Holsteiner mare, Intermediate I
12 Lunch
12:30 Lauren Sprieser & Fiero, 9 yr GOV gelding, Intermediate I
1:15 Kristin Hickey & Capital Call, 12 yr KWPN gelding, Prix St. Georges
2:00 Lauren Sprieser & Dorian Gray, 8 yr KWPN gelding, Prix St. Georges
2:45 Jean Loonam & Red Hot Chili Pepper, 10 yr Hanoverian gelding, First Level

Ebb And Flow

By |2017-03-01T22:52:50-05:00October 10th, 2016|COTH Posts|

Between Michael giving a clinic at my place a few weeks ago, our Regional Finals two weeks after that, and Devon two weeks after that, I am really inspired right now. All the horses in my program are going to be FORWARD, they are going to be ELASTIC, they are going to be CONNECTED, they are going to go in SELF-CARRIAGE, and they are going to do all those things NOW!

Johnny is thriving. Danny not so much.

Ella is on a post-horse-show vacation, partially aided by my being in Michigan this weekend teaching a clinic, and at our BLM Championships much of next week; she’s doing light work in the snaffle, hacking in the field, and eating grass.

Hurricane is continuing to make progress towards being a Good Citizen with my Assistant Trainers/Baby Wranglers Natasha and Lisa, and he’s mostly getting it together and not doing anything all that interesting.

Dorian, who has been on an absolute roll, horse shows next week, and as such I’m focused mostly on test prep and stringing movements together and less on the capital-W Work. Which leaves Johnny and Danny as the focus of my enthusiasm. Poor dears.

Read the rest at The Chronicle of the Horse!

The Devon Magic

By |2016-11-15T14:02:21-05:00October 4th, 2016|COTH Posts|

devonsmileDevon and I, we go way back.

We go back to 2005, where I did win the Young Rider freestyle on a very, very big score, after nearly getting my rear end dumped in the ring at least once in the Team and Individual Tests. Then there was 2006, when Billy ran backwards almost all the way from X to the ingate at A (comment at the end of the test from Anne Gribbons: that I was “tactful, brave, and not influential.” Love it.)

In 2009, Ella completely froze and shut down in a fourth level test, earning a whopping 48 percent, and Cleo bit her lip panicking in her stall when I took Ella out to show her and I scratched. And in 2010, Fender’s stall flooded to the point of standing in fetlock-deep water, and the footing was so horrendous due to weather that I took him home without ever even riding.

So Devon and I have not always been friends.

Read the rest at The Chronicle of the Horse!

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