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Friday, May 11, 2007

Elly Schobel Participates in a Clinic with Christoph Hess at the American Dressage Trainers Club
Elly Schobel - thehomestedt.com

The moment I found out on DressageDaily, that Christoph Hess was coming to Florida, I was on the phone to Jennifer Dillion, the co-organizer of this event, which was sponsored by the North American Dressage Trainers Club and held at The Dressage Center in DeLeon Springs, FL, home of Michael, Sharon, Kate and Gwen Poulin.

A world renown expert in judging, training and evaluating young horses, Christoph Hess is also the Director of the German Olympic Committee, a respected 'I' judge and commentator of Stallion shows. In short, he knows what he is talking about when it comes to dressage horses.

I met him during the 2004 USDF Young Horse Symposium in Lexington, KY and we stayed in touch over the years, and kept him up-to-date on the development of Raison d'Etre, my 9 year old US bred FEI gelding.

The event offered a clinic on Thursday and Friday and the Young Horse Symposium, during which Mr. Hess would discuss the theory behind the training scale, offer video footage and later comment/score FEI 5 and 6 year old tests, ridden by various professionals and top Amateurs.