Recent and/or Upcoming Events

NEXT CLINIC is MARCH 20, 21, 22, 2015 in Oreana, Idaho!

We will be reconvening at the Teeter Ranch this spring. Steph Teeter is hosting a second clinic at her ranch on Bates Creek Road. We look forward to seeing some of the same crowd as last fall as well as meeting some new folks this spring! This clinic is also to be a three day fundamentals level clinic. At this time we still have one opening left for this clinic so contact Leni at ellen.ann.marie@gmail.com or by phone at 541-212-3555 for more information or if you want to register for this clinic. Remember auditors are only $10 a day and we do not have a limit on number of auditors so feel free to come out and see us at the Teeter Ranch this March.  


Spring 2014 Clinic

Photos and Overview

Most of our clinics, like this one, are based on gaining control and respect on the ground and confidence in the saddle. We typically have three days worth of instruction although we will adapt the schedule as needed.  For example instead of a three day weekend we might do five evenings and one full day.  That was the case with the Spring 2014 clinic. Seven horse owners and their horses (this is Ted’s current maximum class size) came out and spent each evening Monday – Friday. We spent most of Saturday morning reviewing everything we had learned all week. We adjourned for a good hamburger barbeque lunch break and then went back to working on any exercises which participants wanted additional instruction, practice or help with.

Throughout the course of the clinic the students and their horses learned the exercises used in the fundamental level of the Downunder Horsemanship method. We had lecture and class time at the beginning of the first several evenings so that everyone could learn why their horses do what they do and understand the philosophy of the training method Ted teaches.

The official clinic hours were scheduled to be 5 pm through 8 pm each evening. Of course everyone was told ‘come early and stay late’ if you want extra time. Ted was working with students by by 4:30 each day and there was someone staying until dark every night! It is great to see people so enthusiastic about what they can achieve when they have the knowledge and the tools to reach their goals!

The seed pupil for this clinic – Karen Vining – traveled from Prosser, Washington to be here with her mare Abbiroad.

  

                       

                        


Joseph Wieting – the sole male participant in this clinic – impressed everyone with his work ethic. He left each evening when his mother, Kelly (supportive Mom extraordinaire) drug him away.

                           

Trish Frahm – on her mare Secret – ended the clinic with much increased confidence in her ability to continue to improve her partnership with Secret. 

Evelyn 

Robin and Evelyn Peterson – They were a mother and daughter team who described themselves as needing to regain confidence. Robin and her horse were probably the star pupils for most improved – her smile as Scot became so much safer to be around was beautiful to see. Robin and Evelyn sacrificed a lot of sleep to make this week long clinic work in their schedule! They both said it was worth it and we are so glad they chose to come. 

Robin

                            

Pat Murray – All of you endurance folks already know who this is! Pat came to this clinic to work specifically on becoming more comfortable with her younger Arabian mount Bert. Her recently operated on knee slowed her down a little bit but it sure didn't stop her! Pat was a cool person for us to meet. She shares the mindset of the eternal student of horsemanship. It isn't uncommon, but neither is it uncommon to find rather the opposite; extremely experienced riders who have decided that they have learned as much as they would like to. Pat, like Karens (both V. and B.) falls firmly on the side of we can always learn and improve; we can be having even more fun (and staying SAFE!) with our horses as our knowledge increases. It is fun to be around people who have this in common with us. We can all constantly strive to be better horsemen together.

                             

Last but far from least; our good friends Karen Bumgarner and The Big Brass.Karen, like Pat Murray, is well known in the endurance community. Although Karen and Brass pretty much have the fundamentals down, they spent the week with us too. They planned to spend their clinic time raising the bar for themselves and fine tuning their fundamentals. As luck would have it; we ended up finding a major ‘oh no’ spot for Brass and so he got a lot out of the week as well.Many of our clients become personal friends but Karen is even closer than usual. She has become a great friend to our family; almost more like one of our family than a friend of our family. We are truly blessed to have met her. It seems people you meet on horseback do make the best of friends.

 It was a great spring clinic. Everyone was awesome. I have lots of photos I would love to share from this week. I am going to try to put up a photo gallery page on another page of the blog to show more photos of the clinics, client horses, and general horse experiences in our family.