CVDA 2024 CLINICS
JOY CONGDON CLINIC
June 1, 2024Smoke Rise Farm, Woodstock, Vermont
Opening Date: May 2
Closing Date: May 23
Cost: CVDA member, $115/45-minute lesson
Non-CVDA member, $165/45-minute lesson
Auditors: CVDA members free; non-members $10
Click here for Rider Registration on opening date
Click here for Auditor Registration on opening dateThis clinic is designed for the rider who is new to dressage and/or new to riding in a dressage clinic. Come further your knowledge and experience and expand you and your horse's comfort zones. Participating in a clinic is a wonderful way to learn some new exercises, obtain valuable feedback and gain confidence in a new environment.
Joy Congdon bases her Still Point Dressage business in Shelburne, Vermont. She is a popular CVDA Development Day judge and an active USDF/USEF competitor through Grand Prix. She is a USDF Certified Trainer/Instructor, Fourth Level, a USDF Gold, Silver and Bronze Medalist and a USDF Graduate "L" Judge. Joy was an Assistant Trainer to Kathy Connelly for 17 years and her own students have earned USDF Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals. Joy has also received numerous USDF Regional Championship and NEDA Year End Award placings.
(The CVDA clinic participant selection criteria will be modified for this clinic to allow for the clinic to fill with those working on the "basics" and for novice clinic participants. CVDA members still receive preference over non-members.)
Joy Congdon Clinic Selection Criteria
BILL WARREN CLINIC
August 10-11, 2024Joyce Martin Farm, Brownsville, Vermont
Opening Date: July 10
Closing Date: August 3
Cost: CVDA member, $165/45-minute lesson
Non-CVDA member, $230/45-minute lesson
Auditors: CVDA members free; non-members $20/day
Rider and Auditor Registration: Select Events/Event Calendar above
Bill Warren is a FEI 4 Star Judge, USEF 'S' Judge and a USDF Gold Medalist who has trained several horses to Grand Prix and works with many FEI riders. Bill, as part of Warren-McMullin Dressage, has decades of experience training, teaching and judging. He has studied primarily with Conrad Schumacher and George Williams. Bill teaches riders of all levels, while continuing to be an avid competitor, judge, trainer, coach and clinician.
Bill Warren Clinic Participant Criteria
STEPHANIE HAYES WORKING EQUITATION CLINIC
September 14, 2024
Goose Pond Equestrian Center, Canaan, New Hampshire
Opening Date: August 16
Closing Date: September 2
NOTE! Lessons are 1.5 hours long and include 2-4 riders
Cost: CVDA member, $135; Non-CVDA member, $175
Auditors: CVDA members free; non-members $20/day
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Working Equitation - a wonderful way to cross train your horse by offering something fresh and new that is based on excellent training, partnership and fun!
Stephanie Hayes has been a professional in the horse industry for over two decades as a natural horsemanship clinician, trainer and competitor. In 2017 she attended her first Working Equitation clinic and was inspired to incorporate the training benefits into her programs. Stephanie conducts clinics throughout the U.S., co-founded New England Working Equitation, Inc., is a USAWE Professional Instructor, "L" judge, and serves on the USAWE Professional Development Committee. She has been awarded many National and Regional Championship on several horses and coached her junior rider to National Championship honors. Stephanie currently competes at Level 6. Stephanie's farm is The Center for America's First Horse in Johnson, Vermont, where she trains and promotes rare Spanish Barbs.
Working equitation is made up of four disciplines (Dressage, Ease of Handling (a course of items found out in the field, such as bridges, gates, etc.), Speed, and Cattle (Optional). It became a sport in 1996 and originated in Europe and South America. Its historical roots are the skills and training needed by horses working in the field.