Clermont Equestrian at Cypress Hill

2nd GREG BEST CLINIC

August 21, 2009

Like last time the clinic was really good, but too short, especially for Diane Wilcox’s horse who was just seeing big improvements by the end of her two hours. It would have been really good to then continue from that point and make much more progress... For Kendal, she really impressed Greg with her improvements since the last clinic, who told her: "I've never seen the amount of improvement from a student that you have made in just the last six months", which really made her (and me) really happy to hear! And finally, Mary Jo did really well on Spartacus, especially for not riding much in a year or so. She was told to not ‘nag’ so much going to the fence and one of Greg’s trademark contraptions really helped drive that point home! For me, I was warned not ‘over train’ horses, so they have a chance to figure things out on their own, and therefore become more suitable for amateurs to ride later on. Greg, if you read this: Thanks for the great clinic!

FEI North American Young Rider Championships

August 07, 2009

The following riders from Northern California won Gold Medals in the Junior division of the prestigious 2009 Adequan FEI North American Junior & Young Rider Championships:

Samantha Harrison on Santika
Taylor Siebel on Thunder-Ball
Alec Lawler on Live Fire
Richard Neal on Luke Skywalker

Here is a nice description of what it was like there, along with a link to where all the scores are posted:

Update #1
Update #2
Update #3
All Standings

This is a huge accomplishment as there were top riders from all over Canada, the US and Mexico. - Congratulations!

I expect within in couple years to have several of my students in the listings too!