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Youth Dressage Festival
Newcomers
Welcome
Newcomers!
This page is an
attempt to help you figure out how the festival is organized,
how
participants register, costs, etc. Please
email your questions
and we'll
try
to respond as quickly as possible!
What is the Youth
Dressage Festival?
It's a three or four day
weekend ( depending on when you choose to arrive) of
dressage tests, a written quiz, a few speaker sessions to add to your understanding
of the discipline, plenty of food, and hours and hours of getting to
know other people
who love kids and dressage.
Be certain to see Lendon's
suggestions further down the page!
Things to read about here:
| The
Quiz |
| The
Reading list |
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Activities for Younger
Children |
| Roving Trainers |
| Ice
Cream Social |
| Volunteering |
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USPC Teama |
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Specialty Tests |
| Earning Your Way |
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Photo Albums (Please send us your photos after the festival) |
| The
Message Board |
| The
D4K Newsletter |
Required
Reading:
Your Horse's Teeth: Photo Guide #2
for Ages 11-21
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| Advanced Techniques of Dressage, by the
German National Equestrian Federation
for Ages 18-21 |
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Principles of Riding, by the German
National Equestrian Federation
for Ages 14-17
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| Dressage Basics Outlined
Step by Step, by Sandra Jacobsen
for Ages 11-13 |
USPC D Manual of Horsemanship, by Susan Harris
for Ages up to 10
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Activities for Younger Children:
Activities for younger
children will be held on Friday and Saturday from 2 – 4,
and on
Sunday from 9 – 11. Activities will include arts and crafts and
traditional games with a horsey twist:
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Bean bag toss
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Pin the tail (label the parts of the horse, and label the
human parts they correspond with)
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Red light green light (demonstrating different gaits)
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Creating our own musical freestyles
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Braiding toy horses
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Pony puppet props which we will pass around while discussing
pony care and safety
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Putting a bridle together
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Putting polo wraps on each other
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Register your child to
participate with this online form:
REGISTRATION
Please
contact Susan Sieber at
ssieber@interstatelumber.com
to request additional information,
This form is to pre-register for a session with one of the D4K Roving trainers,
Mica, Kat or Annie. The official list for times will be available at the Information
Table. You MUST visit the Information Table to confirm and receive your time
slot. Please indicate your wishes and we will try to accommodate as many
participants as time permits.
Youth Volunteers
Kid Volunteers are also an critical to The Festival.
All children are required to participate, and siblings and fiends
are encouraged also. It's a great way to learn about the workings
of a horse show, learn more detail about dressage, and be a part of
the team!
This link
will give you a printable list of jobs that
are available at the Festival. You wlll be able to volunteer as
soon as you receive your ride times at the registration office.
We need Volunteers for many positions.
Why Volunteer?
• Opportunity to meet and talk with former Olympic and world renowned FEI riders
• Opportunity to earn lessons from top trainers and prizes!
• Opportunity to see demonstrations of future Olympians, several top youth riders attend.
How can you help? A Partial List of how you can help.
• Scribes (learn what judges are looking for!)
• Ring Stewards ( Keep the show moving and competitors comfortable )
• Awards presentation
• Office Volunteer; assist with of clerical work, computers, accounting , according to your skills.
• Setup /Clean-up; Get your workout, setup and breakdown rings, etc .
Please indicate your prefrences and availability.
Laura Akin 845-544-2222 lakin@optonline.net
Kim Best 203-217-1805 bestkim2003@snet.com
Volunteer Registration:
Earn
a portion of your Youth Dressage Festival Expenses!
You can earn
credit towards portions of your Festival expenses by soliciting
contributions for advertising including links to web pages.
Complete
details are included in the Prize List.
Here is the FORM
to use to send in your advertiser information and money.
Correct deadline for ads TBA
Specialty Tests:
Notes from
Lendon:
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Read carefully about when and where to send the entry.
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| Be very
precise about the age of the rider |
| Check and
use the bulletin board |
| Don't
hesitate to
contact Lendon |
Lendon
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