Linda O' Carroll Memorial Adult Amateur Clinic
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CALIFORNIA DRESSAGE SOCIETY AUGUST 2017 V. 23, I 8 PHOTOS BY CHRISTOPHER FRANKE Linda O’ Carroll Memorial Adult Amateur Clinic - North - June 9-11 Having the opportunity to ride with Hilda Gurney Thank you CDS for the 2017 Linda O’Carroll Memorial in the Adult Amateur Clinic series this year was really great! A big CDS Adult Amateur Clinic Series – North with Hilda Gurney. I was thank-you to CDS for sponsoring this educational series for AA’s lucky enough to be chosen from the wait list. and to my East Bay Chapter for selecting me to attend. The first day of the clinic, Hilda worked on basic things with us. I took my Trakehner gelding Tanzartig Ps whom I competed at Keep the reins short, ride with my legs not from my seat, don’t lean I-1 last year. As Hilda did with each horse and rider pair, she honed back. She said I was a very powerful and strong rider, but Ugo didn’t right in with specific instruction to improve our performance. The need that from me. Hilda liked all of my warm-up exercises, and specific exercises she had different pairs use are too numerous to said we had great rhythm and cadence, and our flying changes were outline here, but I particularly liked her comments about warming pretty good. She said that we needed help in learning how to count up our horses as she drew the parallel to the training pyramid and for the threes. Hilda said that I have great feel, and understood what using it as a guide when suppling the horse in warm-up. It was an she wanted, and would correct myself. ah-ha moment followed, duh! Of course! The second day of the clinic was super. I did all that Hilda had I’d strongly encourage riders at all skill levels to audit and better told me from the day before. I kept the reins short, was light on my yet - ride - in one of these AA clinics. This was my first one and I seat, used my legs for impulsion. Whatever she asked me to do I did, think I’ve been missing a very useful educational activity! and she kept on saying “super” and “great”. Hilda then asked me to Rebecca Armstrong, DVM, PhD, East Bay Chapter enjoy your time in the saddle we have you covered! EQUINE MORTALITY TRAINER LIABILITY CARE, CUSTODY AND CONTROL FARM & RANCH COMMERCIAL PACKAGES EQUINE SURGICAL & MAJOR MEDICAL INSURANCE WORKERS’ COMPENSATION & EMPLOYERS LIABILITY FOLLOW US! CDI 0545437 . A division of Parker General Insurance GLENDORA, CA (800) 321-5723 www.Equine-ins.com Donna & Joe Parker August 2017 ~ Dressage Letters ~ Page 2 President’s Column by Kevin Reinig California Dressage Society I am always thrilled when USDF brings a national event out west. We often feel our www.california-dressage.org national organizations forget about us out here in the west but I assure you those of us from the west, involved on the national level do not let them! The USDF Sport Horse Committee decided to bring its new USDF Youth/Young Adult Dressage Sport Horse CDS Central Office Breeders Seminar to DG Bar Ranch in Hanford. This is the second time this program Paula Langan • manager/editor [email protected] has been offered, the first being last year at Hilltop Farms, Inc. in Colora Maryland. P. O. Box 417 • 9 Del Fino Pl #202 The title of this seminar is “Life on a Breeding Farm” and its purpose is to do just that, Carmel Valley, CA 93924 introduce kids to breeding horses and life on a breeding farm. The team of presenters (831) 659-5696 • fax (831) 659-2383 for this seminar was Willy Arts, to talk about training and life on a breeding farm; Tue, Wed, 2-7pm • Thur, Fri, 1-5pm Melissa Creswick, to talk about evaluating conformation and movement; and myself to talk about handling young horses and preparing them to show in hand. The DG Bar Ranch team was very gracious and supplied fantastic horses for us to review. I grew up working on a breeding farm so I was excited to be a part of this seminar. We started Saturday morning with an introduction and meeting the participants. Many of the participants came from the west coast; we had some from as far away as Maine and one from Canada. After the introductions we moved to the arena to jump right in with evaluating Dressage Letters: August 2017, Vol 23, Issue 8 conformation and movement. DG Bar presented a collection of young horses ranging Published monthly by the California Dressage Society, in age from 2 through 10 and included warmbloods, a Friesian, and an Andalusian 9 Del Fino Place #202, Carmel Valley, CA 93924. Periodicals #5940 at Carmel Valley, CA cross. We first looked at them standing then presented in hand. With Melissa taking and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Please send the lead, together with Willy and I giving our opinions and feedback on the horses. address changes to P O Box 417, Carmel Valley, CA 93924-0417. Moving outside to see the horses move at liberty we continued this collaboration. Printed by APi-Marketing The participants were very interactive in the process and posed excellent questions and observations. After lunch I gave a handling demonstration and we continued our President conformation and movement presentation by watching the horses from the morning Kevin Reinig (916) 616-4581 session under saddle. The day ended with a question and answer time, tour of the Vice President DeGroot Family Dairy, and a pizza party hosted by CDS. Ellen Corob (805) 440-2947 Sunday morning started off in the breeding barn where we reviewed stallion, mare, Scholarship Committee Chair and foal management practices. They collected a stallion and everyone was able Pat Hart (714) 299-6507 to look at the semen under the microscope. They reviewed breeding the mares and Treasurer foaling procedures. The participants were then split into teams and evaluated four Diana Muravez • (760) 728-6325 horses’ conformation and movement. We then had a group discussion of the team evaluation of the horses and Willy challenged everyone, including Melissa and me to [email protected] suggest what type of stallion would complement these horses. Willy surprised us in Insurance the end when he revealed how the horses were all related. Equine Insurance Melissa, Willy, and I were thrilled with the turn out for the seminar and had a great Donna Parker 800/321-5723 time collaborating on this. The response from the participants was positive, I learned [email protected] a lot and would jump at the chance to do something like this again. Junior Rider The 50th Annual CDS Championship Annual show is just around the corner. There Kristin Young • (949) 677-1334 are a lot of special things planned for this momentous anniversary and we can always Elizabeth Coffey-Curle • (775) 849-0136 use your help. Please let us know if you are interested in volunteering. We always have jobs, even if you can only spare a couple hours. I hope to see you all there to celebrate CDS’s history and invest in the future of CDS! CONTENTS Articles CDS 50th Anniversary Championship ........page 23 CDS Year Book ...........................................page 21 How to Qualify ............................................page 22 Judge Credentials.........................................pages 17-18 Linda O’Carroll Adult Amateur Clinics ......pages 1, 4-5 Memory Page - Black Magic ......................page 12 Who Is Qualified? ........................................pages 24-25 Monthly Departments Activities Calendar .....................................page 20 Bulletin ........................................................pages 10-11 Classifieds ....................................................pages 37-39 Futurity ........................................................page 19 Letters ..........................................................page 6 Membership Renewal Form .......................page 40 Monthly Clinics ..........................................page 14 President’s Column......................................page 3 Show Calendar ............................................page 16 Show Results ...............................................pages 26-35 USEF, USDF, FEI .......................................pages 8-9 August 2017 ~ Dressage Letters ~ Page 3 KRISTA CHRISTIAN WITH HILDA GURNEY OLGA BIKAKIS HILDA AND CATHY DIVODI PHOTOS BY CHRISTOPHER FRANKE do a piaffe. I told her I didn’t know how to do that, and could she explain to me how to do it. We ended up doing piaffe and passage, I cannot thank you enough for the 2017 Adult and Hilda said they were great. We also did medium and extended Amateur Clinic with Hilda Gurney. A big thank you to Mari Naten trots, quarter pirouettes, beautiful half pass in trot and canter, and for hosting this event at the beautiful facility and for the amazing Hilda said they were all pretty much 8s. Hilda wants me to practice food. To the Sonoma Chapter, thank you so much for sponsoring piaffe and passage everyday in-between things I’m working on. She me. told the auditors that even though I’m an “elegant rider”, today I I have had my horse (Esprit) for only eight months. Despite was a different rider and Ugo was a different horse. All the auditors Esprit being an FEI schoolmaster, the work has not come easily. agreed. Hilda told me that my riding reminded her of Charlotte He is far from “push button”, and definitely comes with some Dujardin! What a compliment! I can’t wait until my next show! challenges. The two key areas I had hoped to address during the The hospitality of our hosts, Mari and Ron Naten (owners of clinic were turn-on-the-haunches and straightness in preparation for Pacific Equestrian Center) was amazing. Everyone appreciated all the flying changes. The first day, Hilda helped me get the correct feel of their, and their volunteers, hard work. for turn-on-the-haunches by having me start with half pass at the I was so lucky to have had the opportunity to ride in the clinic.