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Send your riding video (VHS, DVD or YouTube link) and short riding resume for you and your current horse in training to:
 
Antanovich Dressage
221 1st street #503
Kirkland WA 98033
 
or email. 
 
You will receive actionable written benchmarking evaluation against the Training Pyramid with recommendations how to address the gaps (in terms of riding technique, training session design, and training program design). Please allow a few business days for your materials to be processed. 

 

 

Training Program for Your Horse in 4 Easy Steps
Record your training video, shoot your horse pictures. We will need pictures and YouTube links to video, or VHS/DVD. 
 
1. Take a pen and draw a training roadmap to the level of your goals, mark where your horse is now on that roadmap, and try to write down a plan of the training program for your horse, or ask your trainer to help you.
 
2. Send your payment (check or use Buy Now button below) with materials you created and a short essay about your riding career, show results (if any) for your current horse in training with you
 
Antanovich Dressage
221 1st street #503
Kirkland WA 98033
                                        or email.
 
3. Follow-up with a call to schedule a private session to complete design of a training program for your horse. After the private session (live or remote) you will get detailed recommendations on riding technique, training session design and annual training plan. 
 
4. Begin practicing and enjoying the process, results and milestones! Follow-up support/coaching is available both in the arena and remotely.
 
 
 
 
 
Recommended DVDs

Prepare to Win

 

Based on Conrad Schumacher’s acclaimed clinics by the same name, the program begins with his “Prerequisites for Winning” in which the master coach illustrates the training and riding essentials—such as the horse’s correct neck position—that he insists must be in place before you can be assured success in the competitive arena. The DVD goes on to provide a number of Schumacher’s “Working Patterns”—intricate and challenging exercises intended to be repeated many times in succession without the rider stopping to analyze or worry about what went wrong and why. When these techniques are incorporated in a rider’s long-term, mid-term, and short-term show preparation, the rider will find herself eagerly awaiting the ring of the bell, confident, focused, relaxed, and ready to win.

 

Sections are introduced by Conrad, then narrated in concise and clear terms by Rhegan White with bullet points at the end of section to help clarify the key points and graphic diagrams to help demonstrate Working Patterns. For the dressage novice as well as the Prix St. Georges competitor, this guide offers a unique approach to training rider confidence in combination with basic dressage principles.

 

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Our team at North-West and GAIG/USDF Region 6 Dressage Championships
Championships were a great milestone for us and our horses. All horses pulled the qualifying scores for the next NWDC in 2012, and confirmed their level of training in a challenging regional competition environment. 

Sheila Buchanan showed two horses: Okarina twice at Third (57.949% and 60.641%) and once at Fourth level (57.714%), and twice Diamant at I-1 (59.4% and 59.4%) with third place in USDF GAIG R6 in AA class. Spectators and competitors remarked on how smooth Sheila's rides have been with Diamant, whos gates were even more supple at the last day of the competition.

Evgenia Stenberg entered the center line with Jenata twice at First level JYR in the Championship tests (57.742% and 57.742%) and once at Second level in the Open class (55.238%). At either level, Evgenia and Jenata's best scores were for the quality of canter and trot and canter extentions.

Limerick in my rein consistently pinned 56.246% both days at the Fourth level in Open class (which is three points higher than his debute entries at the previous show a month ago, and despite noticeably more strict judging at the Championships ground), and took eighth place at Third level at USDF GAIG R6 with 58.974%.

We all have grown to respect our horses even more through the course of this adventure! Brave troopers, they took the 10+ hours trip to Idaho and climate change, had no single complaint about anything and did their best.

Score sheets analyses presented us with some puzzles, when judges at different letters scored the same movement with 3 points difference, and very different comments. Our lesson from that for sure is that we need to to tape all tests and have a ground for understanding and discussion, especially when a Champion or a Reserve Champion titles are at stake. In most classes the riders' scores were so close, the difference was sometimes in decimals, so even a point can make a huge difference.

Well, our horses are resting for at least a week, and we are looking forward for the EI Awards day on November 16th! :)
 
 
World Equestrian Games 2010
 Edward Gal & MoorlandsTotilas.
 
Grand Prix Special 85.708% WEG 2010 Kentucky.
 
 
 
Freestyle. Score of 91.80 for 1st place.
 
Ground Jury:

1. E: Mrs. Mary SEEFRIED
2. H: Mr. Ghislain FOUARGE
3. C: Mrs. Linda ZANG
4. M: Dr. Evi EISENHARDT
5. B: Mrs. Maribel ALONSO
Edward Gal with Moorlands Totilas Kür 92.300% FEI WORLD CUP DRESSAGE 2009 UK London Olympia. - WORLD RECORD.