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| CRDA - Clinics & Events 2010 |
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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 Laurel Myers Click here for the clinic ride times (PDF-file) The CRDA will host dressage coach Laurel Myers on March 13th & 14th, 2010. Laurel is a certified (OEF) English Level 2 dressage coach who, for over 25 years, has trained students and horses through 4th level in the Ottawa area (Canada). Laurel has worked extensively with noted dressage trainers Kirsten Blaeske, Neil Ishoy, and Walter Zettl. A note about the OEF Certification Program
Once these requirements are met, the candidate is then tested in several categories: riding (flat), riding (gymnastics), discipline option (jumping, cross-country, or dressage), practical & theory, coaching and training. Cost: Auditors: CRDA members $5.00; Non-members $10.00 Contact: Click here for the Clinic entry form (PDF)
CRDA Adult Camp with Opening date: March 1, 2010 The CRDA Adult Camp is open to both adult amateurs and professionals, and all levels from training level to FEI are invited. This year’s event features clinicians Lynne Kimball-Davis and Cindy Snowden. Camp is a two-day format that includes one private and one semi-private lesson each day with alternating instructors. Camp includes a continental breakfast and lunch with the clinicians on both Saturday and Sunday, lunchtime educational presentations, and an optional dinner on Saturday night at an additional cost. Overnight and day stabling is available at Apple Knoll Farm for an additional fee. Adult Camp is limited to 16 riders. Complete (registration form and Coggins), fully paid registrations (Camp fee, stabling fee, and stall-cleaning deposit) will be accepted in the order received. About The Clinicians Lynne Kimball-Davis is a USDF Gold, Silver, and Bronze medalist. She trained extensively in England and Austria and is a British Horse Society Intermediate Instructor. She has trained and competed many horses to FEI levels, including Pompidou (Piet). In 2004, Ulla Salzbeger purchased Piet as an 8-year-old. Ulla competed Piet in his first two Grand Prix in Germany, and he placed in both. Lynne lives and trains in Wellington, Florida where she has many students training and competing at the FEI levels. She currently trains with Volker Brommann and is competing her horse, Upperclass, at PSG. Cindy Snowden has been instructing/coaching in dressage for 35 years in Maryland, Wisconsin, California, and New England. Cindy has competed at the FEI level for the past 12 years and earned her USDF Silver Medal on a self-made horse. She has won USDF Horse of the Year and USDF All Breed Championships titles, Regional Championship titles, and NEDA Year End Champion titles with her horses Aktrissa, Gucci, Nova Zembla, Dolomit, and Beth Samson's Gemeika. Dolomit was the 2007 USDF Fourth Level Horse of the Year. In 2008, Cindy and Dolomit finished 5th at the USEF Developing Horse Championships in Kentucky. Cindy has been the USDF Vintage Cup Champion for the past three years at Fourth Level, PSG, and Intermediate 1. Dolomit (Dolci) won the Connecticut FEI Freestyle Championship in 2009. She plans to debut Dolci, who she has owned since age three, at the Grand Prix level in 2010. Cindy has coached numerous riders to their Bronze Medal and five riders to their Silver Medal. Cindy is happy working with a variety of breeds and riders and particularly enjoys starting young horses. Funding for CRDA Adult Camp is provided by The Dressage Foundation (www.dressagefoundation.org). Cost: Registration fee check should be made payable to CRDA. Overnight stabling $35/night and day stalls $25/day; shavings not included. Stall-cleaning deposit of $25 required. Separate checks for stabling and stall-cleaning deposit payable to Apple Knoll Farm must be provided with registration. Auditors: CRDA members $10/day; Non-members $20/day Contact: Click here for the Camp entry form (PDF)
CRDA Summer Camp with Opening date: June 7, 2010 In the second of the CRDA’s camp offerings, summer camp features 4 lessons over 3 days. The first and last day features a semi-private lesson, giving each rider a chance to ride with each instructor in this format. Saturday each camper will ride twice, each time in a private lesson with each of the instructors. Lectures and demos will be held at lunch on Friday and Saturday, followed by a group recap on Sunday. Summer camp has been a very popular event. About The Clinicians Yvonn Coleman-Larsen is a USDF certified instructor and practicing graduate from the “L” Judges Training Program whose career spans over 25 years and two continents. Originally from Denmark, following a 10 year apprenticeship with Arne Hansen, an Oberbereiter and top Danish rider, she was also an assistant trainer in Europe for 4 years under Knud Jessen. In the US, she participated in one of the first USDF Certified Instructors programs, followed by the "L" Judge's Training Program. She has trained & competed successfully at all levels. In her capacity as instructor, she has taught hundreds of students of all ages and abilities on both the East Coast and throughout the West. Yvonn frequently clinics with top European Instructors such as Kyra Kyrklund, Klaus Balkenhol, Rudolf Zeilinger, Lars Petersen, Josh Severiens and others, as well as training young prospects. Kathy Eidam offers over 40 years of dressage training experience. Kathy takes an innovative approach to dressage instruction. Kathy has trained and competed successfully at all levels and now gives regular monthly clinic in the mid-Atlantic region while maintain a large client base here in New England. Kathy’s primary strength is the correct development of the horse, ‘Maximizing the individual horse’s natural potential and encouraging engagement to develop the body and mind which is critical in achieving a capable and willing partner in your horse. Cost: Auditors: CRDA members $5/day; Non-members $10/day Contact: 2010 Summer Camp entry form coming soon!
CRDA clinic with Tom Noone Opening date: August 13, 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: Auditors: CRDA members $5.00; Non-members $10.00 Contact: Click here for the Clinic entry form (PDF)
CRDA Year-end Clinic & Banquet - Yvonne Barteau 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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