The Canadian Mounted Games Association (CMGA) is offering a clinic with Pola Anastasia Preugel of Germany, March 17 and 18.
The clinic is open to anyone with an interest in games whether it be English or Western, but it is filling up quickly. It will kick off the year of mounted games and is designed to put people participating in those events on the winning path for 2012.
Preugel, 28, lives in Königs Wusterhausen, near Berlin and is a graduate Business and Law student who also owns and rides with two Mounted Games Association ponies, Raskia and Keen.
She is the International Mounted Games Association officer for communication and a rider who began in mounted games in 1996.
Preugel is a German National Team Mounted Games World Champion from 1998 in Ireland, 1999 in Belgium, 2000 in Germany, 2005 in Wales, 2006 in Sweden, 2009 in England and 2011 in Denmark.
She was also involved in numerous mounted games events all over the world, including the World Equestrian Games in 2010 in Kentucky.
She was the reserve World Team Champion in 2000 and the best placed oversea rider at the world individuals in 2003,
She was the European indoor team champion in 2001, and the Northern European Team Champion in 2006 and 2007.
Those are just a few of the titles she holds in mounted games events around the world.
Registration for the clinic closes March 9.
The clinic will run 9am to 4pm at Travis Hall Equestrian Centre near Rockwood
Preugel will work with the group to develop technique and skill used by world class games riders.
They will be working on pony and rider partnerships as well as pony training.
The clinic will run rain or shine. There will be a lunch booth on-site, but participants are asked to bring a lunch and water pail for their mounts. There will be a one hour lunch break. Ponies will be given breaks through the course of the day.
For a registration form or more information, contact Cindy Johnson at CindyCMGA@gmail.com.
There will be a facility waiver to be filled out the day of the clinic as well as the Canadian Mounted Games Association waiver.
The cost is $80 to Canadian Mounted Games Association members and $100 to non-members.
Johnson also noted that the Team Ontario tryouts for the Canadian Mounted Games will take place in this area in the first two weeks of April.
