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

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

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9-Year-Anniversary Open House, November 19

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

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.

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Schedule for Michael Barisone Clinic, October 29-30

By Lauren Sprieser|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

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Ebb And Flow

By Lauren Sprieser|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!

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Regionals! Devon! And Other Great Fun: October Newsletter

By Lauren Sprieser|2016-10-04T18:35:30-04:00October 4th, 2016|News & Events|

Greetings, friends, from Sprieser Sporthorse! The leaves are changing, the temps are (mercifully!) dropping, and the ribbons are pouring in for Team Sprieser as we finish up the 2016 season with a great showing at the USDF Region 1 Finals and Dressage at Devon. Read all about it in our e-newsletter!

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The Devon Magic

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

Devon 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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How To Prepare For Devon

By Lauren Sprieser|2016-09-29T21:15:22-04:00September 29th, 2016|COTH Posts|

THREE MONTHS BEFORE: Natasha, one of your assistant trainers, asks if she can join her family on a vacation for a chunk of time that includes Dressage at Devon. It’s not great timing, but you’re well staffed at home, so missing one person won’t be a disaster.

TEN DAYS BEFORE: One of your working students decides to quit and, having apparently been raised by wolves, also decides that you’re not owed the courtesy of two weeks’ notice, and she’s leaving the day before you head to PA. That leaves you with three people to care for 17 horses. (The response of those three people, by the way? “No problem. We got this.” Love them.)

THE SUNDAY BEFORE: Get a phone call from the man in your life, where he tells you that he’s running a 102* fever and feels like he’s been hit by a bus. Take everything with zinc in it in your medicine cabinet.

TWO WEEKS BEFORE: Out of curiosity, when was the last time you practiced the Grand Prix Special? (June, 2015). Do you know the Grand Prix Special? (Nope.)

Read the rest at The Chronicle of the Horse!

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Michael Barisone returns in October

By Lauren Sprieser|2016-09-20T14:41:55-04:00September 20th, 2016|News & Events|

He’s back! Join us in Marshall, VA for another fantastic clinic with US Olympian, trainer of US Olympians and phenomenal teacher Michael Barisone. He’ll be here October 29-30, and auditing is available for $35/day if prepaid by 10/27, or $40/day at the door. Enjoy professional, Jr/YR and amateur riders from the lower levels to Grand Prix. Lunch is provided, and an RSVP is appreciated, even if you’re not prepaying (so we know how much food to make!)

Email Lauren to learn more.

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Through Fire

By Lauren Sprieser|2017-07-14T20:35:51-04:00September 19th, 2016|COTH Posts|

My coach, Michael Barisone, is a Big Deal Guy.

We’d met in passing a few times, but never had more than a superficial “Hi, how are you, nice ride,” conversation until I was at Gladstone a few years ago for one of the USEF Talent Search type things. I had Ella and Midgey, both on the brink of Grand Prix. I was 24 or 25, taking clinics here and there with whoever was around, all good people, but there was no single thread to my training, and I was deeply, terribly lost in the weeds.

I was sitting ringside, licking my wounds after two not-remotely-productive lessons, and Michael approached me. “Hi Lauren. Those are two nice horses you’ve got there,” he said. I thanked him, and he asked, “Do you, you know, have a plan for what you’re doing with them?” Not really, no, I said. “Well, who’s your coach?” he asked. I told him that I clinic with X and Y, and I rode in a lesson with Z last month, and blah blah blah.

And he said something I’ll never forget: “Look, I don’t know you, and you don’t know me. But you’re a talented rider with nice horses, and you need a person. And if you want, I’ll be your person. I’ll show up whenever you need me. I’ll be kind to your amateur ladies, and I won’t try and steal your horses or your clients. And I’ll be your guy.”

No one had ever said that to me before, and he’s made good on every promise. I’m writing this from the Regional Finals, where I had a tough school on Ella on Thursday morning, and texted Michael that everything was horrible and I was quitting, and he texted me back right away that it was all going to be fine, then gave me 24 hours to shake it off before calling me up to tell me that everything is going to be fine, to give me a few things to think about in my next schooling ride, to tell me it was OK that I have these little freakouts (I’m very consistent), and that he loved me.

He’s my guy.

Read the rest at The Chronicle of the Horse!

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Schedule for this weekend’s Michael Barisone Clinic

By Lauren Sprieser|2016-08-31T12:57:33-04:00August 31st, 2016|News & Events|

We’re so excited to welcome US Olympian Michael Barisone this weekend! Here’s the schedule:

SATURDAY
10:00 Lauren Sprieser & Ellegria, 15 yr Westfalen mare, Grand Prix
10:45 Jean Loonam & Red Hot Chili Pepper, 10 yr Hanoverian gelding, First Level
11:30 Lauren Sprieser & Danny Ocean, 8 yr KWPN gelding, Prix St. Georges
12:15 Lunch
12:45 Lauren Sprieser & Johnny Road, 7 yr GOV gelding, Third Level
1:30 Kristin Hickey & Capital Call, 12 yr KWPN gelding, Prix St. Georges
2:15 Lauren Sprieser & Fiero, 9 yr GOV gelding, Intermediate I
3:00 Liza Broadbent & Victorious, 14 yr KWPN gelding, Prix St. Georges
3:45 Amelia Hellman & Brighton, 9 yr Swedish gelding, Third Level
4:30 Rebecca Polan & Call My Agent HU, 6 yr RPSI mare, First Level
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 Rebecca Polan & Call My Agent HU, 6 yr RPSI mare, First Level
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 Amelia Hellman & Asta Lindebjerg, 6 yr Danish mare, Third Level
2:45 Judy Sprieser & Lyra, 12 yr Holsteiner mare, Third Level

Auditing is $40/day, and lunch is provided. Please email Lauren to RSVP!

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