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August 5-9, 2008 - Officials
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Stephen Clarke FEI "O" (GBR)
Stephen has always been interested in training horses for every discipline, he show jumped to Grade B and rode in Horse Trials to advanced levels before fully concentrating on Dressage in the late 70's.
During the 1980s and 1990s, he competed successfully both Nationally and internationally on the home trained Ulysses, Becket, Warlock's Wager, Enchante and Eternal Spirit, each of whom were National Championship winners.
In 1988, he was reserve for the Seoul Olympics with Becket.
As an International Trainer, previous member of the International Trainers Club and now British International Dressage Trainers Foundation, Stephen travels regularly throughout the UK and abroad giving training clinics, whilst maintaining his base at Cotton Hall in Cheshire where he specialises in the development of young professional trainers
Over the last decade his career as an F.E.I. Official International Judge has taken him around the globe judging all major competitions including three World Cup Finals, three European Championships, the World Games in Jerez ,the World Equestrian Games in Aachen, the Olympic Games in Athens and last year the Pan American Games in Rio De Janeiro and The World Young Horse Championships in Verden . This year he will be officiating at the World Cup Finals in S'hertogenbosch.
Stephen is Chair of British Dressage's Judges Committee and in this role influences the development of the judging systems and the training and encouragement of both established and new Judges within the UK.
A previous member of the F.E.I. Dressage Committee, Stephen is heavily involved with the training of future F.E.I. Candidate and International Judges.
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Maria Colliander
I have been a national dressage judge some 20 years and became an FEI candidate in 2002. I became an FEI International judge and International young horses judge in 2006. I have competed nationally up to Intermediate I and won 4 times the Finnish Team Championship in dressage. I'm a member of the team of experienced judges who train new dressage judges in Finland. I'm a translator by profession and work as a freelancer. Any spare time I have, I usually spend training. I have about 20 pupils, some hobby riders, some competing on a national level up to Prix St Georges. I have judged at CDI's in Europe and North America, the World Young Horse Championships in 2007 in Verden and will be a member of the Ground Jury at the European Championships for Juniors and Young Riders in 2008.
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Brenda Minor FEI "C"
Brenda is an FEI “C” dressage judge, a Senior Dressage Judge with Equine Canada and the US Equestrian Federation and a Level II Certified Coach. Having ridden from the age of 16, and after competed at Grand Prix, she focused her attention on her judging, receiving her FEI “C” designation in 2006. She has judged extensively through the United States and Canada at National and Championship Shows, and has been on a number of CDI panels in the US and Canada. Brenda is Chair of the Dressage Canada Officials Committee and when not working for a multi-national consulting company or judging, rides her young horse Romanov. |
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Mary Robbins
Mary is proud to represent her home of New Zealand in the many countries in which she has judged at both National and International Dressage competitions around the world. Despite being a patriotic 'kiwi', Mary has been based in England for many years benefitting from the British Dressage system of education as a rider, judge and trainer. She has been a List 1 Judge in England for some 15 years and a FEI Candidate International Judge for 8 years. She is an enthusiastic Judge Educator and Examiner for all levels, a registered National Trainer and is a member of the British Dressage Judges' Committee chaired by Stephen Clarke. Mary returns to New Zealand several times a year to officiate and help riders in her home country. Although currently competing a homebred 6 year old, Mary has educated several horses of her own through to Advanced level. When not with the horses, Mary is a busy Magistrate in the British Law Courts.
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Linda Zang
Linda Zang is currently one of only four "O" FEI dressage judges in the USA, the others being Axel Steiner, Anne Gribbons and Gary Rockwell. Linda, of Idlewilde Farm in Davidsonville, Maryland, has represented the United States as a dressage competitor at the 1978 World Championships, the 1979 Pan-American Games and the 1980 Alternate Olympics at Goodwood, England. She has been an FEI judge since 1985 and judged the dressage event at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, 1998 WEG, Pan Am Games and World Cup Finals. Linda started riding ponies at five years old. From that point on, she tried practically every type of riding starting with Western, then Hunters, Pony Club, Eventing, Open Jumping. Her start in dressage came in her early twenties. Linda traveled and competed throughout the United States and Canada in competitions. Linda feel that Pony Club helps promote better horse care and riding basics. She started to ride dressage because of Pony Club and became more interested when she went to Europe and trained in Sweden in 1968. Her first concentrated work was with Mr. E. Schmidt-Jensen in Ireland who trained at the Spanish Riding School, where she spent three months of intensive training with long-reining horses up to Grand Prix Level. She then went to Sweden in 1968, She lived in Stromsholm which was a Cavalry School. During this time she was able to work with and watch some of the top military trainers of the time, including Major Wikne, Bill Hamilton, Gunnell Persson, Gustaf Nyblaus, and Henri Charmartin. After two years, she moved to the southern part of Sweden and trained solely with Yngve Viebka, the newslink trainer of Flyinge [the Swedish National Stud]. Viebka trained Gaspari, Piaff, Leonard and many top competition horses. Linda stayed with Viebka for two years and returned home and trained with Col. Bengt Ljungquist until his untimely death in 1979. Of the modern trainers she has worked with, her favorite was Herbert Rehbein at Gronwohldhof in Germany. Highlights for Linda included competing in Europe before coming back to America in the 70's. the alternate Olympics in 1980 and the trials leading up to that selection. Prior to the FEI Freestyle competitions, she very much enjoyed doing "the Adagio" in exhibition with a dancer to music in the early 80's. Judging her first World Cup Final in the early 90's was a real thrill. She has judged three more since then, but judging the Olympics in Atlanta, representing her home country, was the greatest thrill of all! Organizing the 1998 North American Championships held in Upper Marlboro, Maryland . Fellow Traveller was Linda’s most favored horse. She purchased him as a two year old in Sweden and he went through all the levels up to and including making the U.S. Pan American and Olympic Teams. Linda’s advice: Try to learn something from everyone you come in contact with. Continue to focus strongly on where you are going and who you intend to be in both good times and bad times. Work hard and never stop the process of critical self-evaluation. Linda also enjoys most sports including sailing, skiing, fishing, and tennis.
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FEI/EC Maggie Murdoch |
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