Clinics at Applewood Farm
Clinics are held throughout the year for both eventers and dressage riders. All horses and riders from entry level through advanced are welcome! Participants are scheduled in groups of four to six, at the appropriate level for their stage of development and their goals.
Winter Series Cavaletti and Jumping Clinics
Applewood’s winter series of jumping clinics continues to increase in popularity, with more riders participating each year. They offer an opportunity to tune up your jumping skills and get ready for the spring season, while riding in comfort indoors on perfect footing.
Dressage riders enjoy the cavalletti-only sessions, which include cavalletti at walk, trot and canter, on straight lines and circles, plus exercises for lengthening and shortening strides. Each one of the three clinics in this series will include cavalletti-only sessions for dressage horses and riders.
Auditors may observe at no charge from the heated viewing lounge, which is equipped with a sound system. Complimentary refreshments are available all day.
Each group includes 4 to 6 riders and runs 1 ½ to 2 hours. Please indicate the date you prefer on the entry form – one date per clinic!
- January 26, 27, 28, 2024
- February 23, 24, 25, 2024
- March 22, 23, 24, 2024
Groups:
- Cavaletti only
- Starter: x-rails to 2’3″;
- Beginner Novice: 2’3” to 2’7”;
- Novice: 2’7” to 2’11”;
- Training: 2’11” to 3’3”;
- Modified: 3’3″ to 3’5″
- Preliminary: 3’5” to 3’7”
Fee: $125 per ride session (payment must accompany entry form).
FEES WILL BE CREDITED TOWARD ANOTHER CLINIC OR LESSON WITHIN THE SAME YEAR IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO TRAILER DUE TO WEATHER CONDITIONS.
New Dressage Tests Clinic
New Dressage tests will be issued in future years, dates for clinics to review and ride the new tests will be announced next year.
Fee: Demo rides: $75 per rider, $25 to audit, Fix-a-test rides: $100 per rider, $25 to audit
About Cross Country Clinics
Cross-country clinics offer groups for every level, including Applewood’s very popular cavaletti-only group for dressage horses and riders. All groups consist of up to six riders; each group rides between one and two hours. Depending on the level, obstacles include ditches, banks, water and other appropriate XC questions.
Fee: $125 per rider per group
Spring Cross Country Tuneup for Dressage Riders & Eventers: Get Ready To Ride Outdoors!
Tune up your cross-country skills! Get ready for the spring events, or enjoy the outdoors on your dressage horse! Groups for Starter through Modified levels, including cavaletti-only. All groups will ride from the indoor arena to the outdoor and back, to avoid early-spring footing problems. Learn to trot, canter, gallop and jump from light into dark, and vice-versa. Work on galloping and balancing before fences, practice narrow fences, “fake” ditches, and turning questions outdoors. Cavaletti groups will ride both indoors and out, working on lengthening and shortening strides, bending lines and going from light to dark and back again. $125 per horse per group.
May 4, 5, 2024
Summer Cross Country Clinic
This clinic will be outdoors and will include a variety of obstacles on Applewood Farm’s cross-country courses. Groups of no more than six riders of similar experience will ride at levels ranging from Starter through Training, schooling over banks, ditches, logs, water and other obstacles, depending on the appropriateness of these challenges for the level of each group. A special group for dressage riders will consist of cavaletti only, and will include questions such as bending lines, riding up and down gentle grades, lengthening and shortening strides, and a shallow water crossing.
Dates: TBD
Visiting Clinicians
We look forward eagerly to the visiting clinicians whom Marilyn invites to Applewood Farm, since they are always the best of the best. Auditing these clinics is just as interesting as riding in them, and the viewing room and arena are always packed.