Dressage
Training & Riding Academy
We offer
training, instructions, and periodical clinics for horses and
riders. Our new full size covered arena is fully fenced,
irrigated, and equipped with fans, lights and a wireless sound
system. Our second regulation size arena features a large mirror
wall, an irrigation system, and a sound system.
In
addition to taking horses into training, we offer riding instructions
on your horse, as well as on our dressage school masters. Our riding
academy provides instructions for any level rider, including children. All of our
dressage horses are trained by German and American trainers in
the successful techniques of the classical European dressage
training system. See for your self how classically correct
training creates happier and healthier horses and riders!
Please
click on the link below for dressage training impressions at our
facility before renovation & extension in the year 2006:
Trainers
Patricia Klees
( view commercial video )
Patricia Klees,
owner of Orange Clover Farms, earned her USDF Silver Medal in 2006
and the USDF Gold Medal at the end of the 2007 show season. She
started out as a cross-country rider and show jumper, and later began
gaining interest in dressage. She took up Dressage training in the
year 2000 and went on to earn her Grand Prix scores in only 7 years!
Patricia
takes horses into training and offers instructions to clients who are
new to the equestrian sport, as well as to advanced riders. Though
classically trained, her background in studying and teaching martial
arts resulted in a new approach to her Dressage instructions.
Patricia specializes in the training of the independent seat, the key
to a successful Dressage career, through Pilates and Equilates
exercises, as taught by Betsy Steiner. Click here for Patricia’s
resume.
Robert Braren
Robert
Braren on Italik
Our dressage
trainer in Florida is Mr. Robert C. Braren. He has to
offer 46 years of experience and numerous international,
national and regional credits.
Some of them
are:
Trained
at:
-
Reitinstitut
von Neindorf; Karlsruhe, Germany
-
Deutsche
Reitschule Warendorf, Germany
-
Ecole de
la Cavallerie; Saumur, France
All of our
imported dressage horses are trained by him until sold – or
longer if you like. For Bob’s resume, Click
Here. We gladly assist you in the arrangement of
lessons with Bob Braren.
Ingo Menze
Ingo Menze on the stud Epernay at the Hess State Stud
Dillenburg, Germany
Ingo Menze
rides and trains our dressage horses in Germany up to Grand
Prix level. He visits our Florida facility periodically for
instructions and show preparation.
This
internationally successful rider and instructor is coming to
us with superb German and international credentials. Ingo is
training our high level dressage horses in Germany and comes
periodically to Florida for clinics and instruction. He earned
the German Golden Riding Badge and got his ‘Pferdewirtschaftsmeister
FN’ degree from the prestigious ‘Landes Reit- und
Fahrschule Hoya’ in Germany. Ingo Menze has expanded his
experience in the application of the classical German Riding
System with riding and instructing dressage during a two and a
half year employment at Ulla Salzgeber’s barn and is one of
the top stallion handlers at the German State Stud
Landesgestuet Dillenburg. This instructor has worked with
numerous top German dressage riders, horses, and trainers,
such as Holger Schmelzer, Holga Finken, Karin Rehbein, Klaus
Balkenhol and Udo Lange. He also earned a flawless
international reputation and teaches in excellent English!
We gladly
arrange lessons with Ingo Menze during his stays in Florida. ( Clinics )
Guest Trainers
Linda
Oliver is one of our guest Dressage trainers. has been active in
the dressage world training, riding, teaching, showing and selling
for more than 30 years. Having worked with some of the world's
leading trainers and coaches, Linda is a Grand Prix Rider,
Instructor, Trainer, and Clinician with an extensive knowledge and
background. She has trained and developed numerous horses for
herself and others.
Linda was a strong contender for the 1976
and 1984 Olympic games and 1999 Pan American games. She was the 4th
rider in the United States to receive the Gold, Silver and Bronze
Rider award medals.
Her horses have placed 1st in the USDF
Horse of the Year awards at: 1st, 3rd, Prix St. Georges, Intermediate
I, Intermediate II and Grand Prix.
Please
contact us for the arrangement
of boarding and training at our state of the art show barn.
Orange
Clover Farms
Ft. Myers,
Southwest Florida
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