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Absorbine/NEDA <strong>Symposium</strong><br />
CARL<br />
HESTER<br />
October 15 & 16, <strong>2022</strong><br />
Photo: Jon Stroud<br />
SPONSOR
Table Of COnTenTs<br />
n Volunteers................................. 2<br />
n Welcome................................... 3<br />
n absorbine’s story......................... 4<br />
n Reminders................................. 5<br />
n schedule................................... 7<br />
n Carl Hester bio............................ 9<br />
n Demo Riders.............................. 13<br />
Rider: Katie bachli 13<br />
Rider: lillian simons 15<br />
Rider: Kevin Hadfield 17<br />
Rider: Courtney bolender 18<br />
Rider: leah Drew 19<br />
Rider: Katie Robicheaux 21<br />
Rider: Jordan laplaca 22<br />
Rider: Jocelyn Kraenzle 23<br />
Rider: Olivia laGoy-Weltz 26<br />
Rider: lauren sammis 28<br />
Rider: shannon Dueck 29<br />
Rider: McKayla Hohmann 31<br />
Photo: Jon Stroud<br />
Rider: Mica Mabragana 32<br />
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SYMPOSIUM<br />
VOLUNTEERS<br />
s <strong>2022</strong> t<br />
n Event Manager<br />
n Assistant Manager<br />
n NEDA President<br />
n Rider Liaison<br />
& Communications<br />
n Registration Coordinator<br />
n Registration Liaison<br />
n Administrative Assistant<br />
n Mount Holyoke College<br />
EC Director<br />
EC Event Coordinator<br />
EC Stable Manager<br />
n Catering Coordinator<br />
n Decorations<br />
n Volunteer Coordinator<br />
n Volunteer Check In<br />
n Hospitality<br />
n Sponsorship & Advertising<br />
n Speaker Coordinator<br />
n Announcer<br />
n Program Design<br />
n Photographer<br />
n Assistant Photographer<br />
n Tip of the Hat Writer<br />
n T-shirt Handout<br />
n Horse Selection Committee<br />
n Naughton / Markel Insurance<br />
Wine & Cheese Reception<br />
Coordinators<br />
Beth Beukema<br />
Karen Weber<br />
Iris Berdrow<br />
Krista Nordgren<br />
Karen Roberts<br />
Tammy Paparella<br />
Jennifer Bracia<br />
Paula Pierce<br />
Sharyn Antico<br />
Rachel Fulop<br />
Jennifer Marion<br />
Heather Perry<br />
Alison Ingellis<br />
Sally Davenport<br />
Helen van der Voort<br />
Nicole Graf<br />
Beth Beukema<br />
Kari Cincotta<br />
Elizabeth Preston<br />
Paul Eason<br />
June Evers/Horse Hollow Press<br />
Carole MacDonald<br />
Diane Holston<br />
Gina Dailey<br />
Dotti Dawson<br />
Sarah Geikie<br />
Lois Yukins<br />
Carl Hester<br />
Vivian Pilicy<br />
Keeley Titus<br />
n Thank you to the staff and students at Mount Holyoke College<br />
Photo: Jon Stroud<br />
n Thank you to our NEDA volunteer board and all our volunteers.<br />
Without your tremendous efforts we could not hold such a<br />
wonderful event.<br />
n Intercollegiate Dressage Association Team Students and IHSA<br />
team members<br />
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WELCOME<br />
TO THE <strong>2022</strong> ABSORBINE/NEDA SYMPOSIUM!<br />
NEDA is thrilled to welcome back Carl Hester. Carl joined us in 2017, then after having to cancel his<br />
2020 schedule due to the pandemic he agreed to come back this year. We are honored by his commitment<br />
to NEDA and our membership.<br />
Offering educational opportunities is in NEDA’s DNA, it’s part of our mission. Whether the Judge Education<br />
<strong>program</strong>, the NEDA Know-How Series, Lesson Link, or informative articles in the TIP, we always strive<br />
to bring the best to each of our Aspiring Riders. Your enthusiastic response and participation encourage us<br />
to continue providing the best in all these forums. As a six-time Olympian and gold/silver/bronze medalist,<br />
Carl brings a deep understanding of our sport. This symposium will inspire all riders at all levels, and offer<br />
many insights into achieving improved performance.<br />
We thank the over 100 riders who submitted videos, we wish we could include everyone. The selection<br />
committee had a challenging task in picking the final combinations. The range and quality is amazing - from<br />
junior and under 25 riders, to experienced veterans with Pan Am Games medals, World Equestrian Games<br />
experience and a recent Olympic alternate. As our <strong>Symposium</strong> Manager Beth Beukema has said many times,<br />
it will be exciting to see Carl work his magic and produce the best out of each combination. A big thank you<br />
to our riders and their horses.<br />
This event would not be possible without the countless hours of work by the organizing committee,<br />
the selection committee, and the team of volunteers. They have been working all year to make this a successful<br />
weekend. And none of this would be possible without Beth Beukema – NEDA Board Member and<br />
<strong>Symposium</strong> Manager Extraordinaire!! Thank you all.<br />
Thank you also to our sponsors. We are thrilled to have Absorbine as our title sponsor for this prestigious<br />
event. For over 130 years, Absorbine has been “The Horse World’s Most Trusted Name in Horse Care Products”<br />
with brands including: UltraShield, Show Sheen, Hooflex, Magic Cushion, Leather Therapy, Silver<br />
Honey, and more.<br />
We are once again being hosted by the Mount Holyoke Equestrian Center. Their staff and volunteer<br />
teams have been so generous with their time and care for our event. They have worked hard to make their<br />
beautiful facility ready for us.<br />
None of this would work if it wasn’t for our members and auditors. Thank you for making NEDA and this<br />
event special. We hope it exceeds your expectations and offers you many helpful tips to bring back home to<br />
your own riding adventures.<br />
Cheers<br />
,<br />
Iris Berdrow<br />
President, New England Dressage Association<br />
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REPRINTED FROM NEDA’S TIP OF THE HAT MAGAZINE<br />
We are pleased that<br />
W. F.Young<br />
is our Title Sponsor:<br />
Here is their story!<br />
Most equestrians grew up<br />
with Absorbine products in<br />
their tack trunks, but many<br />
do not know the history of<br />
this amazing company, so we would like to<br />
share it with you.<br />
This year, W.F. Young, the parent company<br />
of the Absorbine brand of products is celebrating<br />
its 130th anniversary. A love for animals<br />
has always been at the heart of<br />
everything the company does. In 1892, it<br />
was a love of horses—and a belief that<br />
there was a better way to care for them—<br />
that led Mary Ida and Wilbur Young to create<br />
their very first product: Absorbine®<br />
Veterinary Liniment.<br />
Like many significant achievements,<br />
Absorbine® grew out of humble beginnings—and<br />
through the tenacity of someone<br />
willing to question the status quo. In<br />
this case, it was a young woman in late<br />
19th-century Massachusetts: Mary Ida<br />
Young. Her husband, Wilbur Fenelon<br />
Young, was an enterprising piano deliveryman<br />
who relied on the couple’s team of<br />
horses to make deliveries throughout the<br />
Northeast. In those days, if a horse developed<br />
lameness, a common treatment was<br />
“blistering” the affected leg using one or<br />
more caustic agents. The blistered skin<br />
caused increased blood flow to the treated<br />
area, speeding recovery of the injury.<br />
Mary Ida knew there had to be a better,<br />
more humane way. In addition to caring for<br />
their horses, Mary Ida was an avid gardener<br />
and herbologist. Through her knowledge<br />
of healing herbs, she formulated a<br />
special blend of herbs and essential oils<br />
into a tincture designed to increase blood<br />
flow and speed healing—without painful<br />
burning or blistering.<br />
Wilbur and Mary Ida started using her<br />
creation on their horses daily. They were so<br />
impressed with the results that they named it<br />
Absorbine® Veterinary Liniment, and Wilbur<br />
started carrying some on his deliveries. On<br />
one such trip to Syracuse, New York, he sold<br />
a whole case to trainers at a local race track.<br />
In a letter to Mary Ida mailed on his way<br />
home, he wrote: “I have had $42.80 worth of<br />
‘Absorbine’ orders this month. Let the good<br />
work go on. Some day we will make this<br />
boom … Lovingly Yours, Wilbur.”<br />
Wilbur was right. Everyone loved this<br />
humane yet effective way to relieve sore<br />
joints, tendons, ligaments, and muscles.<br />
Mary Ida had indeed invented a new treatment.<br />
They named their fledgling company<br />
W. F. Young — but it has always simply<br />
been called “Absorbine." The exact formula<br />
remains a family secret, but the results<br />
have been trusted by riders and trainers for<br />
more than a century.<br />
Inspired by Mary Ida and Wilbur’s vision,<br />
Absorbine® has continued to add innovative<br />
products throughout the years — products<br />
used every day by horse and pet owners to<br />
help their animals live happier and healthier<br />
lives. Today, W.F. Young has grown into a<br />
global leader in equine and pet care but has<br />
not forgotten its roots. The company remains<br />
family owned and operated and committed<br />
to enhancing the health and well-being of animals<br />
around the world.<br />
The Tip of the Hat<br />
is neDa’s award-winning magazine<br />
with 10 issues a year.<br />
Get it fRee with your neDa membership!<br />
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REMINDERS<br />
TO MAKE YOUR SYMPOSIUM EXPERIENCE ENJOYABLE<br />
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Please visit our vendors and educational<br />
sponsors. Booths in the<br />
vendor village tent / trailers are<br />
located behind the indoor and<br />
on the canopy in the indoor arena.<br />
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Lectures in the small arena at<br />
8:15am and 12:15pm. Please<br />
support our sponsors with your<br />
attendance.<br />
Please use the porta-johns in vendor<br />
village.<br />
Lunch will be passed out at the<br />
entrance. Please have ticket from<br />
your packet – Saturday / white ticket,<br />
Sunday/ black ticket.<br />
Coffee is available on the porch,<br />
with a donation to the Mount Holyoke<br />
College IDA and IHSA teams.<br />
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No photographs, recording or<br />
videotaping during the presentations.<br />
(Credentialed photographers only). Cell<br />
phones, iPads and all electronic devices<br />
must remain turned off and stowed out<br />
of sight. You will be asked to leave the<br />
venue for failure to follow this policy.<br />
Please stay seated during the riding<br />
sessions to eliminate distractions for<br />
the horses and riders.<br />
Pre-ordered commemorative T-shirts<br />
maybe picked up at the NEDA table in<br />
the vendor village.<br />
Thank You<br />
to our educational event sponsors:<br />
Title Sponsor: Absorbine<br />
Grand Prix: Misty View Equestrian<br />
Presentation sponsors:<br />
Atlantic Equine Services/Boehinger-Ingelheim<br />
HYGAIN Feeds<br />
Intermediate sponsors:<br />
Reiten Right Equestrian footing<br />
The Simple Equine<br />
L & M Boots<br />
Ridely App<br />
Lemieux<br />
Photo: Jon Stroud<br />
Vendor Village will include many of your favorite<br />
so make an early start on your holiday shopping:<br />
-JGR Saddlefit/Prestige Italia<br />
-Saddle Mattress<br />
-Horse and Rider Boutique<br />
-Adequan<br />
-Erreplus Italian Saddlery<br />
-Frederique Studios<br />
-Maine Horse and Rider<br />
-Trafalgar Square Books<br />
-The Vineyard Equestrian<br />
-Synergy PEMF & Saddlery<br />
-Sew You<br />
Silent Auction:<br />
L&M Boots will have<br />
a silent auction at their<br />
booth on the mezzanine<br />
level for a pair of<br />
custom boots with all<br />
the bells and whistles<br />
a $1000.00 value.<br />
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October<br />
15 & 16, <strong>2022</strong><br />
sCHeDule<br />
®<br />
absorbine/neDa symposium with Carl Hester<br />
Mount Holyoke<br />
College<br />
equestrian Center<br />
TIME<br />
7:00<br />
7:15<br />
7:15<br />
8:15 - 8:45<br />
9:20<br />
9:30 - 10:15<br />
10:15 - 11:00<br />
11:00 - 11:45<br />
11:45 - 1:15<br />
12:15 - 12:45<br />
1:15 - 2:00<br />
2:00 - 2:30<br />
2:30 - 3:00<br />
3:00 - 3:30<br />
3:45 - 4:00<br />
SATURDAY<br />
HYGaIn feeds<br />
Feeding to Fuel the Dressage Horse<br />
with a Low Starch Diet<br />
Presented by Brady Karren M.S.<br />
Introduction of Carl Hester<br />
SUNDAY<br />
Parking lot open with bussing from Mossier elementary school<br />
Registration Opens — Mount Holyoke equestrian Center<br />
Vendor Village Opens — shopping and Information booths<br />
Located in tent behind arena n Portajohns located next to vendors<br />
both lectures held in small Indoor<br />
sponsored by boehinger-Ingelheim<br />
atlantic equine services<br />
Neck and Back Afflictions in Sport Horses<br />
and Advances in Treatment and Management<br />
Presented by Omar Maher, DVM<br />
4 & 5 year-olds (Different Horses saturday and sunday)<br />
Forever P - Katie Bachli<br />
Hosanna - Lillian Simons<br />
Third level<br />
Jazz Beat - Leah Drew<br />
MoIgaards-Rafiness - Katie Robcheaux<br />
fourth level<br />
Gold Play - Jordan LaPlaca<br />
Shurreal - Jocelyn Kraenzle<br />
Fine Royal - Kevin Hadfield<br />
Furstin Isolde - Courtney Bolender<br />
lunch break: lectures and Vendor Village shopping<br />
(Boxed lunches will be passed out at the entrance area)<br />
HYGaIn feeds<br />
Innovations in Digestive Health and Nutrition<br />
for the Dressage Horse<br />
Presented by Brady Karren M.S.<br />
both lectures held in small Indoor<br />
Prix st. Georges<br />
Johnny Be Goode - Olivia LaGoy-Weltz<br />
Heiline's Oh Land - Lauren Sammis<br />
small Tour<br />
Angelika MW - Shannon Dueck<br />
Intermediate 2<br />
Numberto - McKayla Hohmann<br />
Grand Prix<br />
Diamond Rosso - Mica Mabragaña<br />
sponsored by boehinger-Ingelheim<br />
atlantic equine services<br />
Equine Asthma - Management in Sport Horse<br />
for Optimal Performance<br />
Presented by Jacqueline Bartol DVM<br />
Post Event Activities - Vendor Villages Open<br />
Carl Hester autograph signing<br />
Sponsored by Ridely in the vendor tent - Tickets $20.00 prepurchased<br />
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Photo: Jon Stroud<br />
T H E M A S T E R<br />
& L E G E N D<br />
CARL<br />
HESTER MBE<br />
BY NICOLE GRAF<br />
a legend in the sport for over three<br />
decades with multiple medals to his<br />
name, he hardly needs an introduction.<br />
approachable and charming<br />
with a quick-witted sense of humor<br />
both in and out of the arena, Carl is<br />
an inspiration as an exceptional<br />
horseman and athlete. His longawaited<br />
return to new england after<br />
a two-year delay due to the pandemic<br />
is finally here, and neDa is delighted<br />
to welcome him back!<br />
Now a six-time Olympian, Carl made his Olympic<br />
debut at the 1992 Games in Barcelona where he became<br />
Team GB's youngest rider to ever compete at a<br />
Games. He was part of the history-making British<br />
Dressage Team at the 2012 London Olympic Games<br />
aboard Uthopia, when the team won the nation’s firstever<br />
gold medal in dressage. Carl went on to win a<br />
team silver medal at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio<br />
with Nip Tuck and a team bronze medal at the 2020<br />
Tokyo Olympic Games with En Vogue, almost 30 years<br />
since his first Olympic appearance. Hester proved age<br />
is no barrier as the oldest member of the class of Tokyo<br />
2020, heading to Japan aged 54, where he clinched<br />
the bronze medal alongside teammates Charlotte Dujardin<br />
and Charlotte Fry.<br />
Hester has also competed at four FEI World Equestrian<br />
Games (WEG), winning a team bronze medal<br />
at the 2018 WEG, and team silver medals at the 2014<br />
and 2010 WEG. He has competed at 11 European<br />
Championships winning seven medals, including team<br />
gold and double individual silver medals in 2011; team<br />
silver medals at the 2021, 2015 and 2009 championships;<br />
as well a team bronze in 2013. Continued →<br />
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He is the most successful British dressage<br />
rider in history, amassing over 60 National<br />
Championship titles and has been<br />
British National Champion an incredible ten<br />
times. He is famous for his ‘galloping Laps<br />
of Honor’ at the Nationals which are always<br />
a crowd pleaser! Carl was named as the<br />
British Olympic Association (BOA) Olympic<br />
Athlete of the Year for equestrian in 2011.<br />
Carl Hester the Early Years<br />
Carl was born into a non-horsey family<br />
on June 29, 1967, and grew up on the tiny<br />
remote island of Sark, the crown jewel of<br />
the Channel Islands, which is nestled in between<br />
Guernsey and Jersey, 80 miles south<br />
of England. The island has no cars and<br />
therefore all travel was–and still is–done by<br />
bicycle or equine. This is where Carl<br />
learned to ride, although it was not on a<br />
horse, but on a donkey that he rode to and<br />
from the village shop. He actually didn’t<br />
even ride in a saddle until he was 16 yearsold!<br />
He eventually moved on to ponies and<br />
horses, and successfully competed in local<br />
gymkhanas. Carl still has family living on<br />
the island and visits regularly. In January he<br />
won the 2016 Channel Islands Sports Personality<br />
of the Year Award for the second<br />
time, having previously won it in 2012.<br />
Carl’s life changed in 1989 when Dr. Wilifred<br />
Bechtolsheimer, “Dr. B,” asked him to<br />
come work as a rider at his facility, an interview<br />
that Carl admits was a bit nerve-wracking.<br />
He was offered the opportunity to ride<br />
nice horses, have training, live in a beautiful<br />
flat (apartment) on the property, AND get<br />
paid a weekly wage. “I thought all my birthdays<br />
had come at once!” said Carl.<br />
Carl trained and rode with Dr. B for over<br />
three years, during which time he competed<br />
Carl and Valegro. Photo: Jon Stroud<br />
at the first-ever FEI World Equestrian<br />
Games in Stockholm, Sweden in 1990<br />
on Rubelit von Unkenriff. He then competed<br />
with Giorgione at the 1991 FEI European<br />
Championships followed by the 1992<br />
Barcelona Olympics.<br />
“It was the most amazing thing that had<br />
ever happened to me, and a period that<br />
changed the course of my life,” reflected Carl<br />
who still credits Dr. B as the most influential<br />
person in his career. “One thing I’ll never forget<br />
is when he said, “If you can’t come down<br />
the centerline straight with a square halt and<br />
trot off, well that’s no good to me.”<br />
Carl maintains his thankfulness to the<br />
Bechtolsheimers for giving him the chance<br />
of a lifetime. Their daughter Laura, very<br />
young at the time, would later become<br />
Carl’s gold-medal winning Olympic teammate<br />
at the 2012 Games in London.<br />
After leaving the Bechtolsheimers, Carl<br />
decided to go out on his own and created a<br />
business venture with Kate and Stuart<br />
Carter at their facility in Stow-On-The-Wold<br />
in the Cotswolds, a relationship that lasted<br />
10 years. The many horses that Carl<br />
trained during that time included Argentile<br />
Gullit, his mount at the 2000 Olympic<br />
Games in Sydney, Australia, and Kate’s<br />
stallion Donnersong, the first horse he<br />
trained himself to grand prix.<br />
In 2004, Carl designed his own worldclass<br />
equestrian facility in Newent, Gloucestershire,<br />
and has never looked back.<br />
Considered to be one of the world’s best<br />
trainers, Carl has brought countless horses<br />
to the elite grand prix level, while insisting<br />
they enjoy life as ‘normal horses.’ His<br />
weekly training regime includes four days<br />
of training interspersed with two days of<br />
hacking out and one day off. They spend<br />
time in the paddocks each day, and if it suits<br />
a particular horse, even living out in the field<br />
at night is not out of the question if it makes<br />
them happier in their work.<br />
Carl has owned or co-owned many of his<br />
top horses, and has welcomed them back<br />
to his facility to live out their years in luxury<br />
retirement. He has even made special stables<br />
for the two of the most famous horses<br />
in the world, Uthopia and Valegro.<br />
The partnership with the breathtaking<br />
dark stallion Uthopia launched Carl’s career<br />
into the stratosphere. They were part of the<br />
Gold medal winning British Team at the<br />
2011 FEI European Championships in Rotterdam,<br />
The Netherlands, where Carl also<br />
took home the Individual Silver medals.<br />
Of all the horses Carl has ridden to<br />
Grand Prix, he rates Uthopia as the easiest<br />
of them all. “From the first time I rode him I<br />
knew he was special,” said Carl. “He was<br />
just like a rubber ball, with so much bounce<br />
in both the trot and the canter. He also has<br />
an amazing personality and doesn’t act like<br />
a stallion."<br />
Most notably, the duo were part of the<br />
history-making British Dressage Team at<br />
the 2012 London Olympics alongside Laura<br />
Bechtolsheimer on Mistral Hojris, and Carl’s<br />
long-time student, Charlotte Dujardin on<br />
Valegro. Carl and Uthopia finished in the<br />
top five of the three tests, playing a vital role<br />
in helping to win the nation’s first-ever<br />
Olympic Team Gold medal on the 100th anniversary<br />
of the equestrian sport in the<br />
Olympics. As we all know, Charlotte and<br />
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Valegro went on to have their own fairytale<br />
story, setting four world records and<br />
becoming the first-ever duo to hold<br />
Olympic, World, European and World Cup<br />
Championship titles simultaneously. All of<br />
which was achieved under Carl’s watchful-eye<br />
and incredible coaching.<br />
Accolades<br />
Carl’s talent and dedication to the sport<br />
has earned him numerous and well-deserved<br />
accolades. He was named the firstever<br />
Honorary Patron of British Dressage<br />
for his nearly 30 years of service to his<br />
sport in November 2016. He was awarded<br />
the 2016 Global Dressage Visionary<br />
Award and the British Horse Society<br />
(BHS) bestowed him with an Honorary<br />
Fellowship, their highest honor of which<br />
only seven people hold the title. In 2015,<br />
Carl received the BHS Queen’s Award for<br />
Equestrianism, while the highly regarded<br />
French equestrian yearbook, L’Annee Hippique,<br />
named Carl ‘Best Rider of the Year’<br />
and ‘Best Trainer of the Year’ in back-toback<br />
editions. In 2013, Queen Elizabeth<br />
awarded Carl with an MBE, Member of the<br />
Most Excellent Order of the British Empire,<br />
for winning the Team Gold medal in London.<br />
In 2011, the British Olympic Association<br />
named him the Equestrian Athlete of<br />
the Year.<br />
New stables built for<br />
Valegro and Utopia<br />
for their retirement<br />
Photo: Nicole Graf<br />
Learning from the Master<br />
Carl has penned several top-selling<br />
books, including his must-read autobiog-<br />
raphy called, “Making<br />
It Happen,” and<br />
has produced excellent<br />
training videos.<br />
He has launched a<br />
new series of train-<br />
ing videos tailored for all levels of riders,<br />
which can be found exclusively in the<br />
Ridely app. Videos can be watched in the<br />
app or on a computer for a larger view.<br />
Carl’s positive style of teaching for<br />
both horse and rider is a pleasure to<br />
watch. He has changed the temperature<br />
of dressage, and it is a delight to welcome<br />
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DEMO RIDER<br />
KATIE BACHLI<br />
is the assistant trainer at MMDressage, USDF Gold<br />
Medalist Molly Maloney’s training facility in Clinton<br />
Corners, NY. Her love of riding horses began at age<br />
three when she asked her father for riding lessons.<br />
Katie trained and evented into her early twenties, before<br />
deciding to focus solely on dressage. She purchased<br />
her first dressage horse, a 3-year-old gelding,<br />
Grambling, in 2014. The pair went on to win USDF Region<br />
8 Championships at 1st Level in 2017 and at 2nd<br />
Level in 2019. Katie turned professional in 2015, and<br />
she is involved in the day to day training and wellbeing<br />
of multiple FEI horses and horses she is working<br />
to bring up the levels. n<br />
FOREVER P<br />
is 2018 Hanoverian mare (For Compliment x De Niro)<br />
who was bred in the US by Prosperity Farm. Katie purchased<br />
her as a lightly-backed three-year-old, and<br />
started her show career this year, qualifying for the<br />
USDF Regional Championships. Katie says, “It has<br />
been a joy to train her. She learns quickly, is responsive<br />
to light aids, and she has the ability to focus and relax<br />
even when she is presented with new environments.<br />
Next year, I look forward to trying to qualify for the US<br />
Festival of Champions at Lamplight in the 5-year-old<br />
division and the USDF Regional Championships at<br />
First Level.” n<br />
Katie Bachli on Forever P. Photo: Michelle Morgentern Photography<br />
Young Horse Tips from CARL<br />
Safety first!<br />
Rhythm, contact & forward<br />
f<br />
Physically, the young horse<br />
will not be mature<br />
until 7 years old<br />
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DEMO RIDER<br />
LILLIAN SIMONS<br />
is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College. After finishing<br />
her studies in 2018, she made the decision to pursue<br />
horses full time as a professional. Lillian’s<br />
competition highlights include representing Region 8<br />
on the Young Rider team at the North American Junior<br />
and Young Rider Championships in 2015 with her<br />
horse Willoughby. They were later invited to the<br />
Young Rider Nationals at Lamplight where they finished<br />
fifth. n<br />
HOSANNA<br />
(Hotline x Shawnee x Shakespeare RSF) was bred by<br />
Maureen Swanson’s Rolling Stone Farm. She is coowned<br />
by Lillian and Wesley Dunham, who purchased<br />
her as a yearling from Lauren Melikian Strope.<br />
Hosanna successfully started her competition career<br />
in the Materiale classes in 2021, ending her season last<br />
fall at Dressage at Devon. This year she has been competing<br />
successfully at First Level, with scores consistently<br />
in the mid 70s, and she is schooling higher<br />
elements. Lillian describes her as having a willing demeanor,<br />
with excellent trainability and athleticism.<br />
“This mare has an affectionate personality, loves attention<br />
and genuinely enjoys being around her humans.<br />
She has been a forward-thinking and very trainable<br />
horse from the beginning. We affectionately call her our<br />
little pocket rocket.” n<br />
More Tips from CARL<br />
If you are riding with the whip,<br />
your horse shouldn't be best friends<br />
with it, but he shouldn't be scared,<br />
either. Do not use the whip to<br />
make the horse go (tap, tap, tap).<br />
Practice riding without<br />
a whip frequently<br />
f<br />
You don't have to sit all the time.<br />
You help the horse use<br />
his back if you post<br />
Lillian Simons on Hosanna. Photo: Stacy Lynne<br />
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DEMO RIDER<br />
KEVIN<br />
HADFIELD<br />
is a USDF bronze and silver medalist and is the owner<br />
of Hadfield Horses, a dressage training operation<br />
based in Mendon, MA. Kevin has spent most of his<br />
life in the saddle and transitioned full time to dressage<br />
training in 2019. The pride of his <strong>program</strong> is a personal<br />
horse, Preston, a draft horse who he rescued<br />
from a field and now schools Grand Prix. Kevin is an<br />
active competitor in Region 8 and has active goals of<br />
achieving his gold medal and the diamond award. n<br />
FINE ROYAL<br />
is a 4-year-old Oldenburg gelding by Feinrich x Rubin<br />
Royal imported in 2021 from Belgium. He was bred in<br />
France. Fine Royal is schooling all four-year-old movements<br />
and gaining confidence in the show ring. He received<br />
a 79% in his first materiale class this season. n<br />
Kevin Hadfield on Fine Royal. Photo: Pictorial Tales Photography<br />
Rider Position Tips from CARL<br />
Forward upper body to go<br />
forward, weight aid to come back.<br />
Don't lean forward<br />
in downward transitions<br />
f<br />
Horse's head should<br />
be in front of your chest<br />
f<br />
To get the feeling of having<br />
your weight on the inside seatbone<br />
for lateral work, lean<br />
over and look back at inside hind<br />
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Courtney Bolender with Isoldae. Photo: Sid Toama<br />
DEMO RIDER<br />
COURTNEY<br />
BOLENDER<br />
is a USDF silver and bronze medalist based in North<br />
Salem, New York. From an early age, Courtney knew<br />
that she wanted to pursue a dressage career, and the<br />
sport has been at the center of her life for over 20<br />
years. Throughout her journey, Courtney has qualified<br />
and placed for USDF Regional Championships on<br />
many horses and has won multiple year-end awards.<br />
Courtney has regularly trained with Henk van Bergen<br />
and Lars Petersen. n<br />
ISOLDE<br />
or “Izzy,” is a 6-year-old Hanoverian mare (Furstenball<br />
x Dancing Darkness x De Niro). Born in North Salem,<br />
New York, and purchased a 4-year-old, she was initially<br />
shown up to first level, and then competing in the<br />
FEI Young Dressage 5-year-old classes last season.<br />
According to Courtney, Izzy is an uncomplicated,<br />
straight-forward mare who has a work ethic like no<br />
other. She never shies away from any question that is<br />
asked of her, and she truly is a special mare with a kind<br />
soul and “can-do” attitude. n<br />
18 n Carl Hester
DEMO RIDER<br />
LEAH DREW<br />
is a 16-year-old FEI Junior rider from Lincoln, Massachusetts.<br />
She is a full-time junior at Lincoln Sudbury<br />
Regional High School. Leah has participated in Pony<br />
Club National Championships, Dressage 4 Kids’ Winter<br />
Intensive Training Program and Team Program, the<br />
North American Youth Dressage Championships, and<br />
multiple USDF regional championships. Since 2021,<br />
Leah has been working with Hope Cooper and Jane<br />
Karol at Bear Spot Farm in Concord, Massachusetts.<br />
Eventually, Leah would like to become a professional<br />
dressage rider and aspires to one day represent the<br />
United States in the Olympics. n<br />
JAZZ BEAT<br />
is an 18-hand 2010 Hanoverian gelding (Jazz x Sandrina<br />
x Sandro Hit). “Jazzy” was born in the Netherlands<br />
and was sold to Berryfield LLC as a 5-year-old<br />
to begin training with Marie Louise Barrett, Leah's<br />
longtime trainer. Leah and Jazzy have been a team<br />
since June 2021, and within three months qualified<br />
for and competed at the USDF Regional Championships,<br />
winning reserve champion in the 3rd level<br />
JR/YR division. Since then, they have shown at multiple<br />
CDIJs and national shows with much success.<br />
They ranked as the top Junior pair in the United<br />
States going into Festival of Champions, and were<br />
the anchor pair for Region 8’s 4th place finish at the<br />
<strong>2022</strong> North American Youth Championships. Going<br />
into next season, Leah and Jazzy plan to make the<br />
step up to the Young Rider division. n<br />
Leah Drew on Jazz Beat. Photo: Susan Stickle<br />
Young Horse Tips from CARL<br />
Repetition is key<br />
in order to<br />
build condition/strength<br />
f<br />
absorbine/neDa symposium n 19
DEMO RIDER<br />
KATIE<br />
ROBICHEAUX<br />
is a USDF bronze, silver and gold medalist. Katie<br />
began riding at an event barn in her hometown of<br />
New Orleans, but soon turned to dressage. During<br />
her teens, Katie spent her summers as a working student<br />
for Ed Borrenson in Pennsylvania. Ed introduced<br />
Katie to Anne van Olst, a Danish trainer and<br />
rider living in Holland, with whom Katie eventually<br />
spent four years working and training. While in Holland,<br />
Katie competed in the Pavo Cup three times,<br />
finishing in the top 20 twice and winning the Best<br />
Gelding prize in 2008. That same year, Katie competed<br />
in the International Young Horse Championships<br />
in Verden, Germany, finishing in the top 12.<br />
In 2013, Katie and her husband, jumper Vincent<br />
Bailleul, formed L’Acadiane Equine Management in<br />
Massachusetts. n<br />
MØLGAARDS<br />
RAFINESS<br />
Thirteen-year-old mare Mølgaards Rafiness (by<br />
Skovens Rafael x Ibi Light) was imported from Denmark<br />
in May 2021. A late starter in dressage, “Rafi’s”<br />
competitive history in Denmark includes high scores<br />
at the Prix St. Georges level. Purchased for junior rider<br />
Lucy Koerne, Rafi and Lucy were named First Level<br />
JR/YR NEDA Year-End Award champions in 2021. The<br />
pair then made the jump to the FEI Junior Team and<br />
Individual tests. As Lucy is now in France for her junior<br />
year of high school, she left Rafi in the hands of her<br />
trainer, Katie. n<br />
Rider Position Tips from CARL<br />
Keep your elbows with you<br />
in the shoulder-in<br />
f<br />
Katie Robicheaux on Møligaards Rafiness. Photo: Carole MacDonald<br />
THANK<br />
YOU<br />
MOUNT HOLYOKE<br />
TO YOUR STUDENTS AND STAFF<br />
f<br />
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DEMO RIDER<br />
Jordan Laplaca on Gold Play. Photo: Stacy Lynn<br />
JORDAN LAPLACA<br />
in addition to being a USDF gold medalist, is also an FEI<br />
starred combined driver. He has competed throughout<br />
North America and has earned championship and year-end<br />
award placings in both dressage and combined driving. He<br />
has also helped many students achieve their USDF bronze,<br />
silver, and gold medals. He trains and coaches out of Maverick<br />
Hill Dressage, and is currently working with Charlotte<br />
Bredahl with his developing young horse Gold Play. n<br />
GOLD PLAY<br />
(Grey Flanell x Sir Donnerhall), is a 2015 German imported<br />
Oldenburg gelding. He was purchased by Nancy Hutson<br />
from the Hof Kasselmann Stable in Hagen Germany, as a<br />
prospect for eventual co-owner Jordan. He was a successful<br />
FEI 6-year-old last year, taking the 2021 NEDA Year-End<br />
Award Reserve Champion. In March, Gold Play was presented<br />
by Jordan to Christine Traurig at the Merkel Emerging<br />
Young Horse Program in Wellington. He has successfully<br />
competed as an FEI 7-year-old during the <strong>2022</strong> season. He<br />
has achieved scores in the upper 70%, and competed in this<br />
year's "Festival of Champions.” Outside of being an incredible<br />
athlete, Jordan describes Gold Play's character as simply<br />
“just a good boy, and is affectionate, loves to work and<br />
is always ready for the next adventure. n<br />
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DEMO RIDER<br />
JOCELYN<br />
KRAENZLE<br />
is a USDF bronze, silver, and gold medalist. At the<br />
age of five, her riding career started at a small farm in<br />
Bennington, Vermont, where she rode in winter boots<br />
and a bicycle helmet. After graduating from college,<br />
she spent almost five years in Wellington, Forida,<br />
where she worked with trainers such as Lars Peterson,<br />
Conrad Schumacher, Bill Warren, Bill McMullin<br />
and Jacalyn Smith. She discovered a passion for riding<br />
young horses when she accepted a job from Mo<br />
and Jim Swanson of Rolling Stone Farm to train,<br />
compete and sell their homebred Oldenburg horses.<br />
She continues to expand her knowledge by clinicing<br />
with Jim Koford and Lauren Sammis. She has had<br />
many successes with the Rolling Stone Farm horses<br />
in dressage competitions, dressage breed shows and<br />
Oldenburg Mare Tests. n<br />
SHURREAL<br />
Special Premium Candidate Shurreal is an 8-year-old,<br />
16.3 h. German Oldenburg (GOV) mare by Sezuan<br />
(Zack/Don Schufro) out of Elite mare Rheporter (Royal<br />
Prince/Weltmeyer). She was the winner of her Mare<br />
Performance Test as a three-year-old and named a<br />
Special Premium Mare. Shurreal was the 2020 USDF<br />
Horse of the Year at 2nd level. After taking last year off<br />
due to injury, in <strong>2022</strong> she is having a successful show<br />
career at 4th level. n<br />
Jocelyn Kraenzle on Shurreal<br />
Rider Position Tips from CARL<br />
Legs hang,<br />
and then on, or off<br />
f<br />
Rider must not exaggerate<br />
the hollow in their back<br />
f<br />
LIGHT seat with forward hand<br />
in the canter transition,<br />
then SIT immediately<br />
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Olivia LaGoy-Weltz on Johnny Be Goode<br />
26 n Carl Hester<br />
THANK<br />
YOU<br />
DEMONSTRATION RIDERS<br />
& HORSE OWNERS<br />
YOU ARE TERRIFIC<br />
f<br />
DEMO RIDER<br />
OLIVIA<br />
LAGOY-WELTZ<br />
is originally from northern California, where she grew<br />
up riding in dressage and eventing. After graduating<br />
high school, she spent five years working and riding<br />
in Holland and Germany. In 2009, Olivia moved to<br />
Versailles, Kentucky to work for Kathy Priest at Woodspring<br />
Farm. In 2013, she moved to Virginia and, two<br />
years later, opened Mountain Crest Farm in Haymarket,<br />
where she has been based ever since. Olivia has<br />
been a long-time member of the USEF Elite Dressage<br />
List with Rassing's Lonoir. This pair was the traveling<br />
alternate for the Pan American Games (2015), and the<br />
World Equestrian Games (2018), and the reserve<br />
team for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. They represented<br />
the USA on several Nations Cups in the US and in Europe,<br />
including Aachen and Rotterdam. The pair qualified<br />
for the World Cup in 2020 and 2021 (both of<br />
which were canceled due to COVID-19 and EVH.) n<br />
JOHNNY<br />
BE GOODE<br />
(Dream Boy x Amazing Grace x Tietse 428) belongs to<br />
Fritz and Claudine Kundrun. Johnny competed at the<br />
World Young Horse Breeding Championships as a 5-<br />
year-old under Emmelie Scholtens in 2019, and he was<br />
the highest ranked gelding at the 5-year-old finals that<br />
year. He was purchased later that fall by the Kundruns<br />
and imported to the US. For the next year, he was developed<br />
by Kya Enderson, under the watchful eyes of<br />
Allison Brock and Richard White. In December 2021<br />
Olivia LaGoy-Weltz took over the ride on Johnny. At<br />
the time of printing, Johnny and Olivia are ranked number<br />
one in the country for the Developing PSG. Olivia<br />
says, “Johnny recently discovered watermelon--<br />
though he's not a big fan of the rind-- and he loves to<br />
roll in the round pen, but he's not a fan of staying outside<br />
very long.” n<br />
More Tips from CARL<br />
Don't let your lower leg<br />
get too far back;<br />
this prevents your leg<br />
from "breathing" and<br />
tips your upper body forward<br />
f
Lauren Sammis on Heiline’s Oh Land. Photo: Stacy Lynne<br />
DEMO RIDER<br />
LAUREN SAMMIS<br />
A longtime professional in the dressage community, Lauren<br />
Sammis has a competed with dozens of memorable horses<br />
over the past three decades. A highlight of her career was<br />
representing the United States at the Pan American games<br />
in 2007, where Lauren and Sagacious HF earned a gold and<br />
silver medal. Together, they also participated in Olympic and<br />
World Equestrian Games selection events. Currently, Lauren<br />
is a trainer and instructor out of her very busy stable in New<br />
Jersey, and she also maintains a full clinic schedule. Her<br />
students compete on all levels from training level to Grand<br />
Prix, and Lauren also coaches some high-level three-day<br />
eventers. Lauren has trained with a number of top professionals<br />
in the dressage industry and considers Ashley<br />
Holzer her primary trainer. n<br />
HEILINE’S OH LAND<br />
owned by Peggy Gordon, is a seven-year-old Danish mare<br />
by Goldfinger VDT. She is known as “Leia” in the stable. Imported<br />
from Denmark as a six-year-old, she has been ridden<br />
and trained by Lauren for the last year and a half. According<br />
to Lauren, Leia is a very generous, brave, and athletic young<br />
mare with unlimited potential. Leia is starting to show the<br />
ability for the Grand Prix, schooling small steps of piaffe and<br />
passage and a few one-tempis. n<br />
More Tips from CARL<br />
28 n Carl Hester<br />
THANK<br />
YOU<br />
VOLUNTEERS<br />
WE COULDN’T DO IT<br />
WITHOUT YOU!<br />
f<br />
Look in mirror—throat latch should be<br />
U-shaped, not V-shaped<br />
f<br />
You need to sit the way you stand<br />
on the ground<br />
f<br />
Hips through the hands at canter<br />
f<br />
You shouldn't have to shorten the steps<br />
to collect the walk from free or extended<br />
walk. Just shorten up the reins<br />
f<br />
Raise bit to corners of horse's mouth<br />
in horses that won't take the contact.<br />
Let bit hang lower in a stronger<br />
horse's mouth
DEMO RIDER<br />
SHANNON DUECK<br />
turned to international dressage competition after riding<br />
for years in Three-Day Eventing and at the Thoroughbred<br />
racetrack at her home base of Vancouver, Canada. In<br />
1999, she and Korona won the individual silver medal at<br />
the Pan American Games, and since then she has successfully<br />
represented Canada with numerous self-trained<br />
horses, including at the World Equestrian Games and the<br />
World Cup. A Pony Club alumni and an Equestrian<br />
Canada certified coach, Shannon has a M.S. in Equine<br />
Nutrition from Texas A&M University and has been a key<br />
Equine Science faculty member at Olds College and<br />
Johnson and Wales University. Shannon is currently the<br />
team trainer for the Colombian Dressage Team, leading<br />
them to the 2019 Pan Am Games in Lima, the World<br />
Championships, and the Bolivarian Games in <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
Coaching at the Tokyo Paralympic Games in 2021 was<br />
also a highlight, with her student finishing top six in the<br />
Para 3 Category. Shannon along with her husband Lorne<br />
operate Dueck Dressage in Loxahatchee, Florida, where<br />
she runs a training/lesson and clinic <strong>program</strong> for serious<br />
dressage enthusiasts of all levels.<br />
In 2011, Shannon spent six months with Carl Hester in<br />
Great Britain with her International Grand Prix mare<br />
Ayscha. Angelika, by Fanziskus, is Ayscha’s only foal.<br />
She made her competitive debut at Global Dressage<br />
where she garnered scores up to 80% in 3rd and 4th<br />
level. In March, she started in PSG in the International<br />
Stadium, and won a large CDI* PSG the day before her<br />
7th birthday. She finished the season with a 3rd place<br />
finish in the hugely competitive Summit Young Horse<br />
PSG Championships. She has currently shown to Intermediate<br />
1 with scores over 73%, and is starting to school<br />
the Grand Prix. n<br />
Rider Position Tips from CARL<br />
To get overstep in walk,<br />
do not use moreleg—<br />
use "rowing arms"<br />
f<br />
Rider's left hand must be<br />
married to the right hand<br />
Shannon Dueck. Photo: Susan Stickle<br />
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DEMO RIDER<br />
MCKAYLA HOHMANN<br />
is a USDF bronze, silver, and gold medalist originally from Wisconsin.<br />
She was inspired to ride horses by her mother, who competed in the<br />
hunter jumpers. McKayla has been a working student for Liz Austin<br />
for the past five years, with whom she has been learning how to develop<br />
young horses and also build her own feel for dressage. She<br />
has participated in Pony Club Nationals, the Winter Intensive Training<br />
Program, the North American Youth Championships, and multiple<br />
USDF regional championships. n<br />
NUMBERTO<br />
a 21-year-old KWPN gelding (Negro x Jasmijn x Ahorn)was born in<br />
Holland. He was trained at Van Olst stables and eventually spent time<br />
in the early 2010s training with Carl Hester in England with rider<br />
Spencer Wilton. He has competed at many of the most prestigious<br />
shows in the world, including Aachen (where he received a “10” for<br />
his one tempis!). Numberto was also selected for the British Team for<br />
a National Cup in Hickstead. McKayla remarks that he has been the<br />
most incredible schoolmaster. Last year, the team was reserve National<br />
Champions for the Brentina Cup, and Numberto recently<br />
helped McKayla finish scores for her USDF gold medal. n<br />
McKayla Hohmann on Numberto. Photo: Susan Stickle<br />
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DEMO RIDER<br />
MICA<br />
MABRAGAÑA<br />
is an USDF bronze, silver and gold medalist from Argentina.<br />
Additionally, she is a USDF Certified Instructor<br />
(Training through 4th level). Early in her career,<br />
Mica was a working student/assistant trainer for<br />
Lendon Gray for five years. In 2011, Mica opened her<br />
own training business, Malena Dressage. Through<br />
her career, she has trained with Courtney King-Dye,<br />
Scott Hassler, Henk Van Bergen, Oded Shimoni,<br />
Robert Dover, Steffen Peters, Lilo Fore, Beth<br />
Baumert, and others. Some of Mica’s competitive<br />
highlights include representing Argentina at the Young<br />
Rider World Cup in Frankfurt, the Nations Cup in<br />
Wellington, the Pan American Games in Toronto, and<br />
qualifying for the World Equestrian Games in 2014.<br />
Mica is currently training with Antonio Diaz Porras<br />
from Spain. Mica and Antonio run their business out<br />
of Storybook Farm in North Salem, NY. n<br />
Mica Mabragaña on Diamond Rosso<br />
32 n Carl Hester<br />
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DIAMOND ROSSO<br />
is a 2010 Hanoverian gelding by Diamond Hit, and is<br />
owned by Marjaleena Berger. Marjaleena acquired<br />
Rosso in 2016, and together they competed through<br />
4th Level. Mica was handed the reins three years ago,<br />
and, in 2020 the team traveled to Spain to train with<br />
Antonio Diaz Porras, with the intention of competing<br />
on the European tour. Unfortunately, due to COVID,<br />
they were only able to compete in a couple of shows<br />
before returning to the United States. The pair made<br />
their successful Grand Prix debut his summer, with an<br />
aim of eventually representing Argentina on the international<br />
circuit. Mica states that Rosso is truly a horse<br />
of a lifetime and she is immensely grateful for the opportunity<br />
to ride him. n<br />
Rider Position Tips from CARL<br />
STOP HANGING ON<br />
THE CURB REIN<br />
f<br />
Short reins win medals"<br />
really means: Hands need to<br />
be in front of the saddle, not<br />
"scratching your belly"