Source:  News Release

Equine Affaire’s “Ride With The Best” Program Offers
Rare & Inexpensive Training Opportunities this April in Columbus

London, OH—Horsepeople are already planning ahead for the 2012 Equine Affaire which will take place at the Ohio Expo Center in Columbus on April 12th through the 15th and feature an equine-related educational smorgasbord that will be second-to-none! The program of the upcoming event will include more than 230 different clinics, seminars, and demonstrations on a broad range of equine disciplines and horse-related topics conducted by many of the nation’s foremost coaches, competitors, horse trainers, and horse management experts. While training clinics presented at Equine Affaire will be conducted to educate horse enthusiasts who will be watching from outside of the arena, these clinics also offer rare opportunities for selected riders to bring their horses to the event and receive individual instruction and training from many of the industry’s top professionals for prices that can’t be beat! 

Whether you’re trying to improve your dressage test score, lower your barrel racing run time, fine tune your reining patterns, improve your jumping skills, perfect your English pleasure ride, learn to drive your horse, enhance your hunter under saddle or western pleasure performance, or have your horse trained by one of the best horse trainers in the nation, you won’t want to miss the opportunity to participate in Equine Affaire’s “Ride With The Best” program. Most of the clinicians who will be featured at the 2012 Equine Affaire will be participating in the program and accepting horses and riders for their clinic sessions. While some are seeking riders and horses with specific skills or problems to demonstrate and resolve during their clinics, others are seeking any riders interested in improving their general horsemanship and relationships with their horses. The 2012 Equine Affaire will offer a wide range of learning opportunities—and you and your horse may be the ideal participants for one or more sessions.

Among the presenters who will be participating in the Ride With The Best program are “general” horse and horsemanship trainers Craig Cameron, Stacy Westfall, Guy McLean, Mark Rashid, and Jonathan Field. Those offering clinics in the western disciplines will includeAaron Ralston (reining, trail, and ranch horse training), Stacy Westfall (reining), Connie Combs (barrel racing), and Drew Emnett (western pleasure) & Jennifer Moshier (showmanship). Those conducting clinics in English disciplines will include Peter Leone (hunters and jumpers), Todd Flettrich and Jeremy Steinberg (dressage), Duane Esser (English pleasure), Jennifer Moshier (hunter under saddle), andAndy Marcoux (driving). Cathy Zahm will present sessions on the training of draft horses, Brenda Imus will offer clinics on easy gaited horses, and Hollie McNeil will teach horse and rider biomechanics. Consult www.equineaffaire.com for continuously-updated information on additional clinicians confirmed after press time for the 2012 event.

The modest clinic fees for Equine Affaire’s “Ride With The Best” program range from $70 for a single clinic to $225 for a multi-part clinic and include clinic participation, event admission, and stabling. Clinicians will select the participants for their sessions from written applications and videos submitted to Equine Affaire. Full clinic details and a Ride With The Best application are available at www.equineaffaire.com. Click on the Ohio event and follow the “Participate” link to information on the Ride With The Best program. Interested riders may also request an information packet and clinic application by contacting Allison McClure at amcclure@equineaffaire.com or by calling (740) 845-0085 ext. 109.Don’t miss these special and affordable clinic opportunities; get your application materials in before the February 15th deadline!

Elevate your equestrian experience at Equine Affaire—the premiere equine exposition and equestrian gathering in North America. Browse the largest horse-related trade show to be found anywhere (including Youth and Breed Pavilions); experience Equine Affaire’s signature musical celebration of the horse—the Fantasia—on Friday and Saturday nights; and take in all of the action of Equine Affaire’s Versatile Horse & Rider Competition on Thursday night and Sunday morning. For everything you need to know to go, visit www.equineaffaire.com.  Advance tickets go on sale January 9th.

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