The 2023 Adequan®/USDF FEI-Level Trainers Conference will be held January 16-17 at High Meadow Farm in Loxahatchee, FL. The conference will feature David Hunt, Henk van Bergen, Linda Zang, and Lilo Fore. We take this opportunity to look back on a conference from seven years ago.
An audience of 300-plus came to the 2016 Adequan/USDF FEI-Level Trainers Conference East in January to watch clinician Johann Hinnemann work with seven horse-rider demonstration pairs. Hinnemann, a German Reitmeister, has coached the German and Dutch national dressage teams and the Canadian Olympic dressage team. He comes from the old-school European equestrian tradition that has produced so many stars.
Slide show photos by Jennifer O. Bryant
Hinnemann and two of his best-known US students, Christine Traurig (left) and Kathleen Raine, having fun at the Dover Saddlery evening Trainers Conference reception 
Endel Ots worked without stirrups to deepen his seat and achieve better contact with Samhitas 
Kynynmont Gunsmoke’s Gideon, ridden by JJ Tate, showed improved activity and suppleness behind 
Hinnemann had rider Mica Mabragaña lighten her upper body a bit to help Tyara make a smoother transition from piaffe to passage 
Flowers to conference host Mary Anne McPhail (second from right) and thanks to Allyn Mann of title sponsor Adequan (left) and clinician Johann Hinnemann (right) from USDF’s Stephan Hienzch and Kathie Robertson
