GVDS Bits of News
Drop In Dressage
GVDS is now sponsoring Drop in Dressage, which is a great way to get some help with anything you are struggling with.
GVDS is pleased to be able to offer these clinics, which are extremely affordable largely because our members Julie Burt, Megan Bretey and Jolene Perry are donating their time to encourage a low cost way to help members improve.
Our next Drop in Dressage clinic is on Saturday, Apirl 4th from 12-5 PM at Mesa County Fairgrounds.
The clinician this month is Julie Burt who has trained horses up through Grand Prix. Each $35.session is 30 minutes in length.
Here is the sign up link if you are interested in riding:
Riders also need to complete the liability waiver that I am attaching to this email. Please send it to me are jdevore2000@yahoo.com.
If you aren’t sure you want to ride this time but are curious, come check it out and visit with us. Hope to see you there!
Scribing 101
Learning to scribe is not as scary as it sounds.
This is an excellent opportunity to grow your dressage knowledge and earn valuable volunteer hours at the same time. If you are a good listener, can transcribe what another person is telling you and can follow along on a worksheet (ie. test), you too can be a scribe!
If this sounds like a something you might like to do, please join us for an in-person scribe training on Saturday, February 21, 9am-12pm in Grand Junction for an informative event taught by Megan Bretey, “L” judge.
The training will be followed up by “live” horse show practice on March 7 at the Mesa County Fairgrounds during the Vision In Motion Schooling Show.
Follow the link to read more! https://www.gvds.org/scribing101
SAVE The Following Dates:
February 1: Massage Techniques for Layman. Audit space still available.
February 7: Drop In Dressage, Mesa County Fairgrounds with Julie Burt, 1pm-3pm
February 7: Opening day for entries for Vision In Motion Schooling Show
February 21: GVDS Scribe Training with Megan Bretey, Spyglass Ridge Ridgeline Community Center, 9am-12pm.
March 7: Vision in Motion Schooling Show & Scribe Training Practice
March 17: Drop In Dressage and Cavaletti practice with Julie Burt & Jolene Perry
January 9, 2027: GVDS Year-End Awards Banquet, Chipeta Golf Club,
Ride With Your Mind - This Weekend!
Looking for a way to better understand how your position, aids and movements impact your horse and its performance and reaction to you? Then join us this weekend at Roy Yates Horse Training in Fruita for a very educational clinic on biomechanics. Stephany Fish-Crossman, a certified Mary Wanless Ride With Your Mind instructor, will guide English and western dressage riders and beginner through FEI level riders through mounted and unmounted instructions and exercises. Green horses and experienced show horses also participating with a variety of breeds represented.
Plenty of audit space available. $5/day for RMDS/GVDS members and $10/day for non-members. Lunch and snacks are included. Bring your own chair.
Schedule information is on this page: https://www.gvds.org/rwym-clinic
SAVE The Following Dates:
September 16-20, WDAA World Championship Show: Guthrie, OK. Link to the
Live Stream at the end of this enews.September 17-21: RMDS Championships and USDF Region 5 Championships:
Parker, CO. Link to scoring on Horse Show Office at the end of this enews.September 26-28: Ride With Your Mind clinic with Stephany Fish Crossman (riding
and audit spaces still available - see the link at the bottom of this email or contact
Judi DeVore, Jdevore2000@yahoo.com )October 11-12: Schooling Show III
October 25: Final day for score check
December 6: GVDS Holiday Party & Year-End Awards Celebration, Chipeta Golf
Club, Grand Junction, CO. Catering provided by The Ribber.
Upcoming events to remember !
There are still a few more spaces available to ride and audit the Ride With Your Mind clinic. This is your inal chance to participate in this outstanding event, now offering a two-day option. See the link for information at the end of this enews.
We have several members participating in the RMDS Championships, USDF Region 5 Championships and the WDAA World Championship Show. For anyone who shows, you understand how much blood, sweat and oh so many tears to get to these shows. Let’s be great friends and supporters, horsemen and orsewomen and cheer on these riders. We wish them much success and look for some awesome pictures
for next month. Good Luck to all!
Give & Take Table
The popular Give & Take table is available at our last show for the year. We will have another at the year end awards dinner but prefer those items to be new or gently used. This is a great time to get rid of some extra blankets (reasonably clean please), saddle pads or things that you are ready to replace. Why not share them with other exhibitors, volunteers and members?
Recycle and reuse that unused tack and equipment that ALL horse people have and can’t bear to throw away.