All active members are eligible for pre-registration for CRDA-Sponsored clinics. Pre-registration entries may be postmarked up to 7 days prior to the posted opening date. To be eligible for pre-registration, riders must be a member in good standing 60 days prior to the event date. Pre-registration applies to clinics and camps only. (Shows not included.) All entries must be postmarked on or before the closing date.

CRDA clinic with Tom Noone
October 8 - 10, 2010
at Tower Hill Farm, 3 Tower Road, Mendon MA 01756

Click here for directions to Tower Hill Farm

Opening date: August 13, 2010
Postmark Closing date: September 17, 2010

Tom Noone's career highlights are impressive because they were all accomplished on horses trained by him. As a trainer and instructor, Tom brings knowledge earned through many years of training horses with a variety of problems from beginning to Grand Prix. Tom is an accomplished dressage rider and trainer, having won National and Regional Championship at every level of dressage. He has trained more than a dozen horses to the Grand Prix level and has competed four of them himself. He was the US representative to the World Cup in 2001 in Denmark and he made the Nation’s Top 12 for the World Equestrian Games in 2002 (having to withdraw Fresco due to illness at the final trials). He had the 1997 USDF Horse of the Year at Grand Prix.

Cost:
CRDA members: Private - $140.00, Semi Private - $80.00
Non-members: Private - $190.00, Semi Private - $100.00

Auditors: CRDA members $5.00; Non-members $10.00

Stabling:
$25.00 per day. Bring own hay, grain, and buckets.
Bedding (shavings) can be purchased from Tower Hill Farm

Arenas
Indoor 70’ x 185’ — Outdoor 100’ x 200’ — Superb footing both arenas
Trails about farm, view facility at www.towerhilldressage.com

Entries must include coggins and check -- Clinic entry fees payable to CRDA. Stabling fees payable to Barbara Gokey

Contact:
For more info please contact
Barbara Gokey, 3 Tower Road, Mendon, MA 01756
508-883-7511 or billg@gis.net

Click here for the Clinic entry form (PDF)

CRDA Year-end Clinic & Banquet - Yvonne Barteau
November 6, 2010

Yvonne Barteau is a FEI Trainer, Rider and Instructor. She is a USDF Bronze, Silver and Gold Medalist and has earned her Bronze, Silver and Gold Freestyle Bars. Yvonne has ridden many horses and coached many students to a variety of year-end awards and Regional Championships, including multiple USDF's All Breed Horse of the Year. She has competed at USET's Intermediare I Festival of Champions in Gladstone New Jersey and has won FEI classes at the prestigious Dressage at Devon Show. Yvonne’s primary interest is competition dressage and her training program is geared toward horses and riders who can work to the high competition standards of the USEF and the USDF shows both locally and nationally. She is delighted to be able to work every day with respected husband Kim, cherished daughter Kassie, and to have the moral support of son Jamie, beloved daughters, Jessica and Judi. Yvonne has been lucky to have years of instruction form Olympian Carol Lavell and lessons with "O" judge Gary Rockwell and Sweden's Bo Jena and Germany's Conrad Schumacher and Klaus Ballkenhol.

In 2007, Yvonne’s book, Ride the Right Horse, won the Equine Book of the Year award from American Horse publications. Yvonne runs KYB Dressage in Maple Park, IL with her daughter Kassie, a three-time national Young Rider Champion and husband Kim. Yvonne & Kim Barteau also write the monthly column “Clinic with Yvonne & Kim Barteau” in Dressage Today magazine where they critique rider photos submitted by readers.

Additional information will be available here later in the year! In the meantime, if you have questions, contact Linda Currie at 617-974-4441 or L.currie@comcast.net

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