“Best part of being in the states?? I love everything, everything. I especially love the people and the way of doing business. To improve my riding they have shown me different American techniques that I would have missed in Germany. It works! They throw out thoughts and we work together. Hopefully this will help me in my drive to be a Grand Prix rider.” - Emanuel
the entire place for a modern sales and training barn so I now learned a lot more about the business management. Without Jens Mosch and his belief in me I wouldn’t have any of the chances I have gotten. He recently died of cancer and it was a huge loss to me personally.” “To become a Professional in Germany it’s a 3 year apprenticeship
with a Professional that has a certification allowing him to educate riders. You ride with that trainer every day but two when you take a train to an actual school to learn all the management aspects of horses, the vet aspects of the business, how to feed for health and what the horses need to be on top of their sport. You learn about legs and hoofs and how to see what is basically wrong before you call a vet or farrier. It’s the entire education of a horseman who wants to reach the top! I loved it!!” “Half way through those 3 years you travel to Warendorf to the
Deutsche Reitschule and have a 3 days exam. The place is the only one of its kind in Germany. For the exam you are graded on riding dressage as well as jumping and you have to take a written test in order to determine if the apprentice program is working. Those three days of testing are a guideline to see if it makes sense for an apprentice to go on, but it’s not a pass or fail kind of thing. It’s a base from which to make decisions as to the future.”
“If you continue the apprenticeship, for the FINAL exam you
go back to Warendorf for 10 days of testing this time. You have to show flat skills and ride a full dressage test, they test you in jumping which is judged by style, written tests on feeding-vets-management and all aspects of the horse industry. There is a random draw to select a subject which you then have only 10 minutes to prepare a 15-20 speech in front of the judges. In addition there are different ‘stations’ you go through for testing. An example is a lungeing exam where you are given a 3 year old horse never lunged before. You have to groom it, tack it up and lunge it all the while explaining to the panel of judges in detail what you are doing and why. Another draw is about veterinary issues like what happens if your horse lands off a jump and steps on itself, what to do.” “It is nerve wracking but when you pass you can now have the
official Bereiter FN (Professionals Trainer-Rider) Certification you need to be considered or called a certified Professional! I worked really hard and got a perfect 10 in jumping, a good medium score in dressage and every other score was between 9-10. I was 22 when I was done and had my certification.” From there a series of jobs, working student positions would eventually bring him to Southern California. A job with Horst Rimkus,
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