West Palm Beach, FL – After earning High score honors in at the Wellington Classic show in December, Shelley Van den Neste and Ezmarelde La Biladora returned and gave a repeat performance not only winning top honors at the recent Wellington Classic Dressage III Show, but also qualifying for the Regional 3 Championships in Training and First Level. Van den Neste, owner of Sunrise Farms Sport Horses Inc. in Newberry, Florida, competed Ezmarelde for owner Brooke Horan of Vertu Sport Horses in Park City, Utah.
“Ezmarelde has the greatest attitude about everything,” Van den Neste said. “After she was imported she had two foals, the last of which chewed her tail off to the end of the bone and so we had to wait a year after starting her under saddle to show her. Thanks to TailRX it grew out long and healthy and the first time I showed her it was like she was born for the show ring.
Van den Neste said Ezmarelde’s training has consisted of lots of miles of cross training on trails, work over small gymnastics and once a week in the dressage arena. “She never looks twice at anything that would ordinarily spook a green horse,” Van den Neste said. She is a Westfalian out of Ehrentanz and a Florestan dam line. She’s a 16.1 hand plain bay mare, but she has a long, graceful catlike walk and a ground-covering trot. She received two 9’s on her test, one of which was in her stretch down circle which confirms her basic training is correct.”
Van den Neste, a USDF Bronze and Silver medalist and an L graduate who currently competes two horses at the FEI level, is also an accomplished clinician who regularly holds clinics at her Sunrise Farms Sport Horses Inc. Van den Neste holds a variety of clinics including adult dressage retreat weekends where students can bring their horses to her facility and learn to cross train their dressage horses. “This is an intense learning weekend with a group dinner on Saturday night in the ranch house,” Van den Neste said. “I also recently hosted a clinic for the University of Florida Dressage Team to help them prepare for the Intercollegiate Dressage Association National Championships.”
Sunrise Farms Sport Horses Inc., located in Newberry, Florida, offers quality training services and specializes in clinics. They also offer rehab services for show horses that are having problems returning to the show ring. For more information on the farm, contact Van den Neste at srfsporthorses@aol.com.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
MDC Intelligent Stirrups®
MDC Intelligent Stirrups® Endorses Dressage Rider and Trainer Shelley Van den Neste
Seaside, California – Dressage rider and trainer Shelley Van den Neste will be riding in style and comfort from now on, thanks to an endorsement by MDC Intelligent Stirrups®. Van den Neste, a multiple National Champion and a USDF Silver medalist, is thrilled to begin a partnership with MDC Intelligent Stirrups, the revolutionary new stirrup that positions your stirrups where you want them.
Van den Neste, who is a USDF L graduate with distinction and is working toward earning her "r" judge license, currently competes two horses at the FEI level and owns and operates Sunrise Farms Sport Horses in Newberry, Florida. "I am so impressed with the comfort and safety features of the MDC stirrup. I recommend them to all my students and even fellow professionals," Van den Neste said. “It is easy to see why the top professionals in our sport insist on MDC stirrups.”
Top riders depend on MDC Intelligent Stirrups as they allow the rider to select any of three preset stirrup positions: traditional, 45 degrees or 90 degrees. Riders can also customize their stirrups to the setting that best suits them, their horse and their riding application. The MDC Intelligent Stirrups are also easily retrievable, making a rider’s performance more precise and much safer.
Van den Neste will not only ride with the MDC Intelligent Stirrups, but will also share the story of the stirrups at the many clinics she holds at her Sunrise Farms Sport Horses. In addition to weekend clinics, Van den Neste also offers quality training services. Over the past decade she has served as a director for several prestigious equestrian facilities including The Jim Brandon Equestrian Center, Promontory Equestrian Center and the O'Connor signature equestrian center at The Oaks of Lake City.
For more information on the MDC Intelligent Stirrups, visit their website at www.mdccorporation.us/. For more information on Van den Neste and Sunrise Farms Sport Horses email srfsporthorses@aol.com or visit http://www.sunrisefarms.com/.
Seaside, California – Dressage rider and trainer Shelley Van den Neste will be riding in style and comfort from now on, thanks to an endorsement by MDC Intelligent Stirrups®. Van den Neste, a multiple National Champion and a USDF Silver medalist, is thrilled to begin a partnership with MDC Intelligent Stirrups, the revolutionary new stirrup that positions your stirrups where you want them.
Van den Neste, who is a USDF L graduate with distinction and is working toward earning her "r" judge license, currently competes two horses at the FEI level and owns and operates Sunrise Farms Sport Horses in Newberry, Florida. "I am so impressed with the comfort and safety features of the MDC stirrup. I recommend them to all my students and even fellow professionals," Van den Neste said. “It is easy to see why the top professionals in our sport insist on MDC stirrups.”
Top riders depend on MDC Intelligent Stirrups as they allow the rider to select any of three preset stirrup positions: traditional, 45 degrees or 90 degrees. Riders can also customize their stirrups to the setting that best suits them, their horse and their riding application. The MDC Intelligent Stirrups are also easily retrievable, making a rider’s performance more precise and much safer.
Van den Neste will not only ride with the MDC Intelligent Stirrups, but will also share the story of the stirrups at the many clinics she holds at her Sunrise Farms Sport Horses. In addition to weekend clinics, Van den Neste also offers quality training services. Over the past decade she has served as a director for several prestigious equestrian facilities including The Jim Brandon Equestrian Center, Promontory Equestrian Center and the O'Connor signature equestrian center at The Oaks of Lake City.
For more information on the MDC Intelligent Stirrups, visit their website at www.mdccorporation.us/. For more information on Van den Neste and Sunrise Farms Sport Horses email srfsporthorses@aol.com or visit http://www.sunrisefarms.com/.
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