Photos by Susan Croft and Ann Chartier

Pierre Cousyn and Mary Robinson & Cavan	Cavan	Mary Robinson & Cavan	Mary Robinson & Cavan
Mary Robinson & Cavan	Mary Robinson & Cavan	Pierre Cousyn and Charity Messer & Blue Eyed Dream	Charity Messer & Blue Eyed Dream
Charity Messer & Blue Eyed Dream	Charity Messer & Blue Eyed Dream	Charity Messer & Blue Eyed Dream	Charity Messer & Blue Eyed Dream
Charity Messer & Blue Eyed Dream	Charity Messer & Blue Eyed Dream	Pierre Cousyn and Missy Ascik & Haily By Titan	Pierre Cousyn and Missy Ascik & Haily By Titan
Missy Ascik & Haily By Titan	Missy Ascik & Haily By Titan	Missy Ascik & Haily By Titan	Missy Ascik & Haily By Titan
Haily By Titan	Missy Ascik & Haily By Titan	Missy Ascik & Haily By Titan	Pierre Cousyn and Anna Bergholtz & MG Alnvc
Anna Bergholtz & MG Alnvc	Anna Bergholtz & MG Alnvc	Anna Bergholtz & MG Alnvc	Anna Bergholtz & MG Alnvc
Anna Bergholtz & MG Alnvc	Pierre Cousyn and Katie Freeman & Symphony	Katie Freeman & Symphony	Katie Freeman & Symphony
Katie Freeman & Symphony	Katie Freeman & Symphony	Katie Freeman & Symphony	Spectator Gayle Gibson
CFD Board Members Diane Delmain and Ann Chartier	CFD Board Member Diane Delmain and rider Missy Ascik	CFD Board Member Kimberly Puthoff and spectator Mary Robinson	Spectators Barry McKie and DC Cook
CFD Board Member Kathy Dennis keeping it clean!	Spectators	Spectators	Spectators
Spectators	Pierre Cousyn and Corrine Glass	Spectators	Spectators
Spectators Carol Smith and Gayle Gibson	Spectators	Spectators	Spectators
Spectators	Spectators	CFD CupCakes!	CFD CupCakes!
CFD Luncheon and Social	CFD Luncheon and Social	CFD Luncheon and Social	CFD Luncheon and Social
CFD Luncheon and Social	CFD Luncheon and Social	CFD Luncheon and Social	CFD Luncheon and Social

CFD Spotlight on Local Trainer Series
Riding Clinic with Pierre Cousyn
July 16, 2011

Five horse and rider pairs, as well as 35 spectators, enjoyed the recent CFD clinic
at Wind Song Farms with Pierre Cousyn. Pierre holds degrees in both Moniteur and Instructeur from the prestigious National Equitation School in Saumur, France. Everyone responded to Pierre’s warm, friendly style and mixture of modern and classical techniques.

The clinic participants were:

Mary Robinson & Cavan
Charity Messer & Blue Eyed Dream
Missy Ascik & Haily By Titan
Anna Bergholtz & MG Alvnc
Katie Freeman & Symphony

Pierre tailored his teaching to the individual pair and assisted them by often emphasizing foundation principles.


His calm manner of dealing with issues was very positive for the horses. He gave everyone great exercises and tools for further progress.

The spectators enjoyed watching and learning from Pierre.'s It was fun to see the horses and riders improve from the start of their riding session through to the end.

Missy Ascik, one participant said “I had a great time at the clinic. It was the first time off property "all by ourselves" for me and Soleil. She just turned 4 in May and has only been under saddle for a couple of months so I didn't have high expectations. I was just taking her more for the travel experience, but Pierre taught me some really great exercises. Obviously, we just worked on basics. He helped me use my body more than my hands to down transition from trot to walk, encouraging Soleil to carry herself and listen to my seat with a light soft connection. We even did a little canter work. I've been using the exercises at home and we are really coming along nicely.”

This day was also CFD's summer social luncheon and our CFD officer
elections in the Windsong Mane hall. We had 40 people for the social and
it was fun seeing lots of familiar faces come out to visit and vote. See
photos in this article of that event.

Many thanks to all the individuals who brought food and desserts for our
potluck lunch. Lunch was made extra special due to creative participants
who made cup cakes with CFD's initial sand little blue, red, and yellow
ribbons. It was so festive! Thank you.

A very special thanks to WindSong Farms and Lori Wubker for letting CFD have our clinic and lunchtime social at their location.
For more information on WindSong Farms visit this link.

http://www.windsongfarms.com/

We appreciate and thank Pierre Cousyn coming out to be our special clinician for the day. We are very grateful for having him share his experience with us. For more information on Pierre Cousyn and Cousyn Dressage visit this link:

http://www.cousyndressage.com/

And thanks to all our members and friends of CFD for coming to this event and making it a success!

See you at our next CFD activity!