6/ AUGUST 2018 THE RIDER
MY SPIN: Triple Threat Reining Clinic Weekend July 21-22, 2018 Fletcher’s Horse World
Candy Circles
Show Prep with Loris Epis
Triple Threat Clinicians
What an enjoyable weekend to spec-
tate a fund raising clinic at Fletcher’s Horseworld. Each of the 25 riders were given a cap as a souvenir. What a great name for a clinic. I can’t express to you how much the
riders and us spectators enjoyed the whole clinic. The whole weekend was so enjoy- able and raised over $6,000 for the ORHA banquet.
Candy Circles Candy Merten was so thrilled after
her turn at the circle maneuver clinic that I had to take this photo.
Show Prep with Loris Epis I did sit in this show prep talk with
Loris Epis on the Sunday. Here Loris is describing and illus-
trating his warm up routine at a show. He was very forthcoming in his information on what he does to get a horse ready to show the day of the show. Loris worked with riders on their
spins while Jason Richards worked on the stops. Jonathan worked on circles.
Lead Departures with Jonathan Newn- ham
I captured this shot of Jonathan
showing a rider how the horse’s feet and hips are to move (hip in) when you go to take a lead departure. As you may know, we have to nail
our lead departures or the penalty points are too great. In a later article, I will talk about the
Lead Departures with Jonathan Newnham
‘working a box’ exercise that Jonathan was teaching each rider to improve the steering in circles.
Shoeing Demo (Bottom Right) What to do, what to do on the Saturday
night when everyone has been fed a great lasagna and corn on the cob dinner and 73 pieces of cheese cake for dessert. Larry McDougall, ORHA Hall of Famer,
shared his knowledge on shoeing reining horses. Tara Emerick won the draw for the hoof angle measuring device. Thanks Larry. World Class Clinicians
Loris Epis NRHA Open Futurity, NRHA Open Derby Re- serve Champion
Jon Newnham 3 time NRHA Reserve World Champion
Jason Richards Congress Champion, NRBC Fi- nalist
Thanks to these great guys for giving their time to a great cause.
Group photo (At right) The clinic was full and they plan on doing
this again. I hope to ride in it next time. Please contact Bernice Fletcher if you want to ride in the next one. “Hay Bernice! I’d like to ride in it next time.” says me.
Organizers Thanks to John and Sharon Fletcher for
providing the venue. Special thanks to Bernice and Dan Fletcher for all their hard work for this clinic as well as the ORHA Banquet. Thanks to everyone else (you know who you are) who helped out to make this a great success!
Putting my Spin on fundraisers Reinersue @KISS Reiners
About Susan Dahl Susan Dahl, ORHA/NRHA past multiple champion, writer, blogger, author and clinician, retired certified professional horse trainer. Owner of Foundation Rein- ing Training Centre in Durham, ON. She special- izes in effective horseman- ship, and reining. For more information on her serv- ices: judging, clinics or re- sale horses, please contact her on facebook, her web- site:
www.reinersuehorse-
manship.com
or
reinersue@hotmail.com
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