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Tame That Wandering Eye: Why Finding the Right Coach Is Like Finding the Right Spouse
You hear about it all the time: How so-and-so used to ride with him, but now she’s riding with her. How Up-and-Coming-Rider left Fancy-Trainer-One’s barn and is now working with Fancy-Trainer-Two. How your friend used to go to all of that horseman’s clinics, but now she goes to all this horseman’s clinics. Riders notoriously…
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Why FEI/USEF Dressage Judge Anne Gribbons Thinks Santa SHOULD Bring Us Ponies
Last year we shared the best “Santa, Please Bring Me a Pony” Christmas videos (CLICK HERE), and in further support of the More Ponies = More Happiness Movement (there are a still a few shopping days left!), here’s FEI/USEF Dressage Judge Anne Gribbons’ pro-pony take on how to improve US dressage on the international scene…
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When You Add to Your “Pool of Knowledge,” Being with and Training Horses Is All the More Rewarding
The year winding to its close in a flurry of parties and family and (at least here in Vermont) snow often inspires nostalgic glances back while perhaps ambitious resolutions are cast forward. It is a time when those of us who ride or work with horses on a regular basis may evaluate goals met (or…
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In a World of “Extension Fakes,” FEI/USEF Dressage Judge Anne Gribbons Tells Us What a “10” Really Looks Like
In COLLECTIVE REMARKS, the new book from former Technical Advisor to the US Dressage Team Anne Gribbons, readers are treated to all manner of perspectives, in and around the dressage world. As an FEI 5* judge, Gribbons has officiated at numerous CDIs worldwide and selection trials in the United States, as well as prestigious…
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