Spotlight
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.
Click Cover for more
Information
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 - 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 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.
back to top
|