Scandinavia’s most recognized trainers Pether Markne and Per Sandgaard will be team teaching a clinic at Over the Moon Farm in Wellington, Florida, March 18-20, 2008.
Swedish Trainer of the Year and Grand Prix rider Pether Markne and his partner former Danish Olympian Per Sandgaard are heading to Wellington, Florida to do a team teaching clinic for the first time ever.
The famous dressage couple belongs to the Swedish A-team and both aim to go to the Olympic Games in Hong Kong. Per and Pether train, live and teach together.
“We have such different personalities that it brings a lot of dynamics into our classes,” says Pether.
Their extraordinairy skills, wittiness and ability to create a show performing combination with all their students will without a doubt make a lasting impression on the participants as well as the audience at this unique clinic. Both Markne and Sandgaard are self-made talents which every dressage rider admires so much. Their will to be at the top has created their outstanding personalities as well as performing ability.
Per surprised his colleagues in 2004 by qualifying 15-year-old Zancor for the Olympic Games in Athens 2004. Zancor was an unknown KWPN gelding, foaled by a simple school horse and had not done more than second level dressage by age 13.
“Zancor was one of those horses that you meet once in a lifetime,” says Per, who still misses the horse that was sold to Nadine Capellmann right after the games.
Today Sandgaard has two new Grand Prix horses in his and Pether’s barn, just south of Stockholm, Sweden. Orient and Memphis are two very talented and capable horses that might be seen in the Olympic Games of 2008. Per and Orient were part of the Swedish bronze medal team in the European Championship in Turin 2007.
Pether rides the gorgeous KWPN Goodtimes gelding, Nijinsky, who is taking the judges by storm every time he shows. “We haven’t been able to show too much due to the fact that Nijinsky has had a shoeing problem. I believe to have solved the issue now. He looks better than ever.”
In the Olympic Games of 2000 in Sydney, Pether showed Kyra Kyrklund´s former stallion, Flyinge Amiral, with great success. Amiral 764 died in California in 2003 but still has one of the highest breeding values in the SWB studbook based on the performance of his offspring.
Per and Pether train up to 100 students per week all around Scandinavia. Per returns to Denmark every month to train his friends and former colleagues. Pether trains not only the future Grand Prix riders in dressage, but also the Swedish A-team in jumping. His student, Malin Baryard, was ranked #1 in the world in 2005 with her mare Butterfly Flip.
The clinic takes place at Over the Moon Farm on 167 59 Deerpath, Wellington. Everyone is welcome to come and watch for free. Entry fee to ride is 160 USD per class.
For more information about the clinic, please contact Kathy Crosby +1 978 317 9090
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