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Stefan M Radtke

Stefan Radtke is a highly acclaimed dressage instructors for Classic Dressage in Germany and his accomplishments have gone far beyond Germany. His students are competing at levels up to participating in International Competition. He has held clinics in France, Canada, Latvia, Spain and Switzerland.

After graduating from Sporthochschule in Cologne, Germany, he attended the famous Deutsche Reitschule. Until today he is one of the few students of Senior Chief Rider of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, Austria, Arthur Kottas-Heldenberg.

Stefan Radtke is also the author of the standard compendium for Dressage Riders: Classical Dressage, published in 2004.

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Dressage Trainers

Anne Gribbons
Anne recently accepted Whispering Dream Farm owner Alice and two of her horses as students for training. Anne trains now at her Florida location in Oviedo near Orlando at the Knoll Dressage facility. She has been training and showing horses in the U.S. since 1972 leading many of her own horses and a number of students to Grand Prix. Anne was a member of the USET squad at the North American Championships in 1985 and the World Championships in 1986. Besides numerous other accomplishments she also rode on the CanAm Gold Medal Team at Devon in 1994 and was a member of the Pan American Silver Medal Team in 1995.
Anne was the North American Representative to the FEI World Cup Committee 1994 thru 1997, serves on the AHSA Board of Directors, is a member of the USET Dressage Committee and chairs the Athlete Advisory Counsel of the AHSA. Besides additional functions she is Federation Equestre International Judge, a licensed AHSA senior judge and Sports Horse Breeding Judge. Visit her at Knoll Farm's web site for more information (click here).

Stacy Parvey-Larsson

Stacy - together with husband Olof - owns Hidden Acres Dressage Inc. in Ocala, Fl. Since 1994 she trained at Hilltop Farm for 5 years. In 2001 she attended The International Academy for Equestrian Studies in Warendorf, Germany, and then progressed to an internship at Petra Wilm's in Tadorf, Germany.
Stacy has regularly attended clinics with renowned International Academy trainer Stephan Kiesewetter. She passed her Trainer 'A' Exam in 2001 and is training and showing closely with Olympian Dr. Cesar Parra. Visit Stacy's web site and check out her horses for sale (click here).
Watch a short video with Stacy giving Rehkamp's Opal his first lesson when he came from Germany (click here - broadband connection recommended [6.1 MB]).

Siegfried Winkler

International Equestrian Passport from the British Horse Society enabling Siegfried to teach and train Internationally. He also owns the status of a

Professional Instructor by the German Federation (FN) in Warendorf, Germany.

He has erned his Riding Instructor Diploma from the Dutch Riding Academy, Deurne, Holland and is a Licensed German Federation (FN) Judge.

In his career he competed at the Grand Prix level in Germany and Holland and later trained at the world-renowned Classical Riding Institute in Karlsruhe, Germany. He was assistant to Jaap Pot, International judge for the Netherlands and Director and Chief Instructor at the "Manege de Dollard", Holland.

Siegfried also erned professional respect while organizing International events and competitions in Holland. In his career he was training horses and riders in Germany, Austria, Russia, Ukraine, the Netherlands, and the United States. He now resides in Lake City, north of Ocala, Florida.

Karen M Licciardi

Karen was born and raised in Eagle River, Wisconsin, where her family owned and operated Kar-A-Mar Stables. In 1989 she moved to Florida and intensified dressage training with Gunter Ostergarde and retired Captain of the Belgium Team, Jos Sevrins.

Karen's credo in horse training is: >Horses are...living creatures with feelings and emotions and must be treated with respect and kindness<.
With this in mind she won many National and Regional Awards, including USEF Horse of the Year.