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Horse Handling & Obstacle Clinic with Sara Vanacek
Join us on April 12th for an empowering clinic with Sara Vanacek!
Starts at 10AM
$150/hour for participants
$15 for the day to watch
Contact Rose to sign up!
📞 (413) 446-4944
About the Clinic
Participants in the clinic will leave with new tools to enhance their relationship with their horses, as well as the ability and confidence to navigate through new and challenging scenarios.
Empower your horse and strengthen your partnership
Develop trust within your "herd of two"
Comprehend your horse's thought process and approach to solving problems
Allow your horse's unique personality to shine and come to life
Improve preparation for shows
Boost confidence for both you and your horse!
About Sara
Sara Vanacek comes to us with over 20 years of experience as a professional sport horse handler, teacher and clinician. Sara’s extensive equine experience includes being a dressage rider, 35 years as a professional stable manager both in the elite dressage stable and hunter show barn. Her passion for groundwork began with the raising and training of young sport horses and grew into a career of natural horsemanship, groundwork, longlining and remedial work, complimenting her stable management. Sara is a certified ROTH Trainer and owner of Sara Vanecek Horsemanship and Training. She has a soft spot for the horses in dire and critical situations and dedicates her significant training experience to the rescue, rehabilitation and rehoming of rescue horses. Sara shares her passion through her business to support owners and their horses through horsemanship to connect, communicate and gain confidence through groundwork. This summer she'll head back to California to work with the untouched American Mustang.
Past Event: Two Day Horsemanship Clinic with Jason Drass
Join us on August 10th and 11th for an intensive clinic with Jason Drass!
Begins at 9:30 AM each day
Rider Clinic fee: $365
$275 non-refundable deposit needed to secure a rider spot.
Or audit for $20!
Contact Rose to reserve a rider spot!
📞 (413) 446-4944
About the Clinic
This 2 day horsemanship clinic will help you with the fundamentals and the advancement of fundamentals, as well as more difficult skills for anything you would like to be able to get done with your horse.
Come ride with Jason in a supportive and fun learning environment to...
improve your relationship with your horse
advance your communication in the saddle
improve horse and rider communication
work on problem solving many common issues
build a better understanding of important fundamentals that help make big changes such as rein management, feeling the feet, creating life, speed control, front end, hind, and shoulder control, turns, being balanced in the saddle, and more!
Day one will consist of some groundwork in the morning , and then move on to mounted work as a group. On day two we will begin the day with a 2.5- 3 hour mounted group session with some more theory and discovery time that we started in the saddle on day one. After lunch break on day two, riders will be put into pairs for 1 hour semi-private Focus sessions with Jason from 1-6pm. This will allow everyone time to work and focus on any specific problem areas, concerns, maneuvers, or just building up your knowledge on more fundamentals or advanced skills. There's always something to be gained when you are looking to learn! We strongly encourage all of the riders to watch and learn from each Focus session.
All disciplines and level riders are welcome and will benefit dramatically! Jason will pair up riders on day two based on his determination for the Focus sessions. Please be able to commit to the entire day on Sunday as riders will not be paired up or given time slots until after the morning group Discovery session.
About Jason
Jason Drass is an experienced and talented horseman who has a knack for helping riders and horses with solutions that make sense. If you are looking to get to the next level, or just solve a problem that you haven't been able to work through, he can help. His mentors include Tom Curtin and Bryan Neubert, who he regularly works with, and besides his own experience that has taught him many lessons in his years of riding and as a blacksmith, he also is guided by the philosophies of Tom Dorrance and Ray Hunt.
Interested in holding a clinic at Sunny Rose Farm? Contact us!
📞 (413) 446-4944
