Equestrian Clinics

Here is a preview of the latest clinic posted for the members on EquestrianClinics.com....a clinic with none other than George Morris, the godfather of hunt seat equitation and chef d'equipe of the U.S. Show jumping Team. 

We all start the New Year with a bunch of overwhelming resolutions. But when we try to pull off lots of life-changing aspirations all at once, we don’t know where to focus. And if we don’t immediately see results, we feel like a failure, get frustrated, and sometimes just give up. So here is some unsolicited advice that I am trying to follow myself this year: Stop trying to fix everything at once and aim for smaller successes.

Equestrian Clinics is on the ground at W.E.F.!! We have a roaming reporter who is working the show grounds to report back to those of us not fortunate enough to attend.

I was checking my email on an early January morning when I saw a notice that Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum was in California and giving a clinic at HITS in Thermal. The catch - - it was the very next day. So an amazing opportunity to possibly document a rare event with the number one show jumper in the world was dropped into my lap but I had just 24 hours to pull it off. I reached out to the group that organized the event - - the West Coast Active Riders. (The WCAR is this great non-profit organization that promotes show jumping and develops young riders.

A couple of years ago I heard that George Morris was giving a clinic at Karen Healey’s stables in Westlake Village here in California. I wanted to audit that clinic so badly! It’s GEORGE MORRIS - - the father of hunt seat equitation! I knew I could learn so much from watching a clinic with him. I had his and Anne Kursinski’s books sitting on my bedside table and I would re-read them frequently to reinforce my training. But to see the master at work in person would really SHOW me what he is has been talking about in books and magazines.