A Monthly Publication of the Potomac Valley Dressage Association • OCTOBER 2015 • Vol
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
A Monthly Publication of the Potomac Valley Dressage Association • OCTOBER 2015 • Vol. 51, Issue 10 Send your 2015 Calendar Items to [email protected]. Calendar NOVEMBER 2015 Deadline: OCTOBER 10 Calendar Editor: Jocelyn Pearson of Events www.pvda.org for complete calendar PVDA Schooling Shows on separate calendar at Hassler Dressage, Chesapeake City, Md. Injury 873-3573 October and Compensation in the Sport Horse: Diagnostics, 6 FADS Schooling Show at Celebration Farm. 5 PVDA Monthly Board Meeting at Treatment and Rehabilitation. See www. See www.frederickdressage.org Stonebrook Farm, Clarksville, Md. Everyone hasslerdressage.com or 410-885-3824 7 PVDA Monthly Board Meeting at welcome! 14-15 USDF Region 1 Youth Clinic with Stonebrook Farm, Clarksville, Md. Everyone wel- 7-8 Uwe Steiner Clinic at Chesapeake George Williams at Hilltop Farm, Colora, Md. See come! Contact your favorite Board member for Dressage Institute, Annapolis, Md. Visit our www.usdfregion1.org information. website at www.ChesapeakeDressage.com or 21 Shore Chapter Schooling Show at Sunset Bay call 410-267-7174 Farm. For details call 757-302-0224 or January 9-11 BLM Championships, Allentown, [email protected] 10 FADS Schooling Show at Celebration Farm. N.J. See www.usdfregion1.org 21-22 Jan Brons Clinic at Chesapeake Dressage See www.frederickdressage.org 15-18 GAIG Championships and VADA Institute, Annapolis, Md. Visit our website at www. Licensed Competition, Lexington, Va. See ChesapeakeDressage.com or call 410-267-7174 www.usdfregion1.org 24-25 Jan Brons Clinic at Chesapeake December Dressage Institute, Annapolis, Md. Visit our 3-6 USDF Annual Convention in LAS VEGAS! website at www.ChesapeakeDressage.com or Contact a PVDA Board member if you want to call 410-267-7174 attend for PVDA. See www.usdf.org 25 Open Schooling Show at Begin Again 5-6 Michael Matson Clinic - Ride to Music, at Farm, Leonardtown, Md. Contact Michele Windcrest Farm, Clarksburg, Md. See www. Alexander at [email protected] or call windcrestfarms.com or call Dede Bierbrauer at 301- 240-298-0283 30-31 Training with Charles deKunffy at Hassler Dressage, Chesapeake City, Md. Open to all riders. Theory lessons included. Contact [email protected] or register at www.hasslerdressage.com/events 31 Shore Chapter Halloween Show at Sunset Bay Farm. For details call 757-302-0224 or [email protected] 31-Nov. 1 George Williams returns to Chesapeake Dressage Institute! Auditing is $30 per day, includes lunch! For rider information contact [email protected] or See www. ChesapeakeDessage.com or call 410-267-7174 31-Nov. 1 Jeremy Steinberg Clinic at Wyndham Oaks, Boyds, Md. Accepting rider applications. Auditors welcome. Visit our web- site at www.wyndham-oaks.com or call 301- 349-0077 for more information. November 1 PVDA's 31st Annual Waverly on Chester Chapter Challenge at Prince George's Equestrian Center in Upper Marlboro, Md. See the website www.pvda.org for more details 4 PVDA Monthly Board Meeting at Stonebrook Farm, Clarksville, Md. Everyone welcome! 5-8 2015 U.S. Dressage Finals, Kentucky Horse Park. See www.usdressagefinals.com 8 FADS Schooling Show at Celebration Farm. See www.frederickdressage.org 12-14 2015 Equine Wellness Symposium 2 The PVDA Newsletter Rider Achievment Awards Correction Rider Achievement Awards have been earned by the fol- The photography credit for young Mateo Mendoza’s pic- lowing members: Pamela Eastman- Recognized Training ture in last month’s issue should go to his mother, Jessica Level, Recognized First Level; Gwen Seymour- Recognized Mendoza. Katie Straton is the happy coach! First Level; Tina Parks- Recognized Introductory Level; Shira Rosenthal- Schooling and Recognized Training Level. Congratulations everyone! Any member can apply for Rider Achievement Awards. We offer them for Schooling and Recognized Shows at each level. They are a useful way to chart your progress. For more infor- mation and application form see the website. Claim yours now! PVDA Chapter Challenge on November 1 It’s time to get your teams together! The 31st Annual Waverly-On-Chester Chapter Challenge is rapidly approach- ing! The show will be held November 1, 2015 at the Prince George's Equestrian Center in Upper Marlboro, Md. See the website www.pvda.org for more details. PVDA Needs Your Help! which you may have seen is the ‘PVDA Rider Awards PVDA is actively seeking individuals to help the orga- Programs’ flier that is usually handed out at our shows nization in some key areas. We are in need of someone to and other events. If you are comfortable using MS Word lead our Junior and Young Rider Program. The pro- (including the ‘mail merge’ feature), MS Excel, and MS gram consists of 4 schooling shows, 2 clinics (spring and Publisher (or any other suitable software to create docu- fall), and the Region 1 Youth Team Competition held ments or brochures), and are detail oriented, this is the each summer in July. This is a big job! So, we are looking job for you! for someone who is interested in leading a team of 2-3 And finally, PVDA is looking for help with our web- people to work together to run this program. If you have sites. If you have experience working with Wordpress, planning and organization skills, enjoy working with a MySQL, PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, and JQuery, or if diverse group of people including students, parents, train- you have experience building or managing a website, and ers, etc. and are passionate about promoting dressage edu- would like to earn volunteer hours by posting routine arti- cation for our Juniors and Young Riders, let us know! cles and announcements, please let us know. PVDA is also looking for someone to chair our If you are interested in any of these jobs, or are inter- Publications Committee. The publications committee is ested in any other volunteer opportunities with PVDA, responsible for producing the Membership and Service please contact PVDA using the ‘Contact Us’ form on the Directory once a year, as well as producing small publica- PVDA Website www.pvda.org, or send an email to info@ tions as needed. A good example of a ‘small publication’ pvda.org. OCTOBER 2015 3 Peninsula Dressage Report and photo submitted by Kim Renee Briele On August 15th and 16th 2015, Kathy Rowse came to Horse Bridge Farm in Salisbury to teach a clinic. This clinic was subsidized by PVDA for the Peninsula Dressage Chapter, although it was open for other riders as well. Kathy is an “S”judge, has her USDF Gold medal, and is currently on staff with the USDF Learner Judges program. Kathy and her husband, Mike, own SilverLeaf Kathy Rowse and Catherine Casto with Andalusian mare, Catrina. Farm in Suffolk, Virginia where she teaches dressage full time. riage and suppleness! She said there are three things that We have had Kathy come here a number of times to do horses don’t get to choose-direction, tempo, and frame-the clinics, and we’ve always appreciated her ability to improve rider chooses these for the horse. our riding ability and our horses’s training. Her positive- Kathy has a great deal of knowledge on rider bio- never give up-attitude is very motivating! At this clinic mechanics and the theme of this clinic really was, “How there were 18 rides with 13 rider/horse combinations. your body position influences your horse.” Our body posi- There was quite a variety of breeds-Quarter Horse, tion can change and get off balance at times as we start to Thoroughbreds, Draft crosses, a Friesian, Morgan, do the movements of dressage. We tend to leave loop holes Andalusians, Hannoverian, Swedish, and Dutch/Arabian where our horses can escape through their shoulders, hind- cross! Kathy was able to work with each breed with its quarters, and in overall balance. She helped all of us get confirmation and improve its ability for balance, self-car- better control of our posi- Continued on next page Chapters Committee: Deanna Williford (chair), Linda Speer, Claire Lacey, Annmari Ingersoll, Christina Dale Send 2015 Chapter Committee updates to [email protected]. Bayside Southern Maryland • Anne Thibo (chair) Clarksville New Market • Melissa Harlinski (chair and treasurer) 239-272-4147 • Camilla Cornwell (co-chair) • Katie Straton (chair)/410-259-4165 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] St. Mary’s • Joy St. Landau (treasurer) • Nancy Albrecht (co-chair) • Fran Flohr (co-chair)/410-795-1884 • Karen Siebert (co-chair) [email protected] 301-854-2588/[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] • Alice Allen (co-chair) Calvert County Marlborough Peninsula Dressage 301-475-8446 /[email protected] • Claire Hill • Cheryl Swing/301-888-2650 • Jenny Mlyniec/ 443-880-8439 • Gina Guffey (treasurer) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 301-475-7960 [email protected] Catoctin Shore Dressage Metro Sugarloaf Mountain • Debbie Lomb (chair) • Rita Boehm/301-260-0061 www.shoredressage.com • Julie Kingsbury/301-972-8975 [email protected] [email protected] • Deri Jeffers (co-chair) 757-302-0224 [email protected] [email protected] Charles Mountain Harmony Drill • B.J. Martin (treasurer) Tri-County • Dorothy Anderson (chair) • Cathy Whipp • Hallie Ahrnsbrak/240-882-2531 [email protected] [email protected] 757-787-1932/[email protected] • Julie Gross/301-503-7709 4 The PVDA Newsletter Continued from previous page ing the horse’s frame rounder and softer during the posting trot. tions, resulting in better use of our aides. Kathy explained bending saying that the horse should Kathy has a way of breaking down the aides and bend in the barrel around the inside leg-without moving explaining how to use each leg, seat, and rein aide.