Are you a trail rider who is seeking enjoyable ways to increase your riding skills? BVS Dressage Club is inviting riders who are interested in trail challenges, dressage, and working equitation to join us for our Fall Mountain Schooling Dressage Show and Working Equitation Clinic. Both events will be held at the Equestrian Center. Nicole Chastain Price will be the judge of the show and the trainer for the clinic. The show will be held on October 15, and the clinic will be held on October 16.
Working equitation is a relatively new discipline and is the fastest growing equine sport in the nation. Riders from all disciplines including dressage, reining, jumping, working cow horse, and trail riding participate. It combines the basics of dressage with the accuracy of riding through a series of obstacles modeled on those found on a trail ride. The horses and riders achieve harmony by solving the questions encountered.
The show judge and clinic trainer, Nicole Chastain Price, is a lifelong horse lover. Her background includes competing in Eventing, H/J, Reining, Ranch sorting, Western Dressage, Dressage and Working Equitation. She is a USAWE “S” Judge, USEF “r” Dressage Judge, a USEF “r” Western Dressage Judge, a USDF Certified Instructor and a WDAA Graduate of the Advanced Train the Trainers. She has produced numerous award winners in all disciplines, coached multiple students to success in many disciplines, and has a positive attitude toward training both riders and horses.
We are offering a schooling show for our club members and friends because is an inexpensive, relaxed, and enjoyable way to practice showing and receive helpful feedback from a judge on how to improve one’s riding and horsemanship.
To ride in the show or clinic, please contact Janice Polletta: Phone: 661-847-8364 Email: jkpolletta@gmail.com. If you are interested in watching the riders at the show or the clinic, please join us and stop by to say hi!
Written by: Cathie Rich