The 2020 Adequan®/USDF FEI-Level Trainers Conference will be held January 20-21 at High Meadow Farm in Loxahatchee, FL. The conference will feature Anne Gribbons, FEI 5* Judge, Ashley Holzer, Olympian, Lars Petersen, Olympian, and Gary Rockwell, FEI 5* Judge. We take this opportunity to look back on a conference from 10 years ago.
Dutch trainer and coach Henk van Bergen came back to do a second conference in 2010 at Mary Anne and Walter McPhail’s High Meadow Farm in Loxahatchee, FL.
Slide show photos by Holly Hilliard
Conference participants get ringside views (here of demo rider Silke Rembacz on Gladiator)
Mary Ann Grant makes sure that Weltregentrin is listening to her aids
Van Bergen uses Melissa Allen’t horse, Daina to show how to ask the horse to give to the rein
Incorporating van Bergen’s forward-and-back transitions, Shawna Harding achieves a lovely piaffe aboard Come On III
USDF’s Kathie Robertson (right) presents to High Meadow Farm co-owner Mary Anne McPhail, coordinator Lendon Gray, and presenter Hank van Bergen thank you gifts