http://doversworld.com/blog/2009/04/27/american-idols-lesson/ The website of Robert Dover Fri, 18 May 2012 06:04:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8-bleeding-edge hourly 1 http://doversworld.com/blog/2009/04/27/american-idols-lesson/comment-page-1/#comment-1835 christie hanson Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:36:29 +0000 http://doversworld.com/blog/?p=818#comment-1835 I totally agree! I left college in my senior year when my mom passed away. I was offered a fabulous job managing a dressage barn in Palm Beach right when it happened.I wanted to live the dream, had the experience and had worked/shown there before and I was sure life should be spent doing what you love...not just making money..... As soon as I arrived in FL the trainer I came to work with relocated and I couldn't make the move with him...It was my first reinvention...then I rode with Kathleen Raine, Sue Blinks, Volker Brommann and Jane Savoie and later Gunnar Ostergaard. I put myself in the best of training situations and even had an international quality horse that all my trainers liked. I still did not have the funds or the lucky break I needed. I came back to GA and worked at many different jobs with horses...had my heart broken plenty...and almost gave up when my dream situation ended with a strangles outbreak, a barn closing, and the sale of my dream horse(A Deniro son/stallion prospect)all at the same time. I have had a ton of luck both good and bad and now I wish that along with it all I also had my degree. There are several times it would have been there for me. I am still trying to get back to school and I live near enough to do it...but with a daughter and still working horses it's VERY HARD...Dedicate yourself to school and riding. I originally chose my college since it was in a horsey area and had a GP trainer nearby where I could board and train. The barn I managed was the training site for the 96 Atlanta Olympic US dressage team(you were there Robert). There are ways to do school and horses. Do them both. It's important. Learn from me. If you never use it then great...but with all that I achieved in horses there was absolutely still a place for that degree...hopefully I'll finish mine before I am 40...crazy but TRUE! I totally agree! I left college in my senior year when my mom passed away. I was offered a fabulous job managing a dressage barn in Palm Beach right when it happened.I wanted to live the dream, had the experience and had worked/shown there before and I was sure life should be spent doing what you love…not just making money….. As soon as I arrived in FL the trainer I came to work with relocated and I couldn’t make the move with him…It was my first reinvention…then I rode with Kathleen Raine, Sue Blinks, Volker Brommann and Jane Savoie and later Gunnar Ostergaard. I put myself in the best of training situations and even had an international quality horse that all my trainers liked. I still did not have the funds or the lucky break I needed. I came back to GA and worked at many different jobs with horses…had my heart broken plenty…and almost gave up when my dream situation ended with a strangles outbreak, a barn closing, and the sale of my dream horse(A Deniro son/stallion prospect)all at the same time. I have had a ton of luck both good and bad and now I wish that along with it all I also had my degree. There are several times it would have been there for me. I am still trying to get back to school and I live near enough to do it…but with a daughter and still working horses it’s VERY HARD…Dedicate yourself to school and riding. I originally chose my college since it was in a horsey area and had a GP trainer nearby where I could board and train. The barn I managed was the training site for the 96 Atlanta Olympic US dressage team(you were there Robert). There are ways to do school and horses. Do them both. It’s important. Learn from me. If you never use it then great…but with all that I achieved in horses there was absolutely still a place for that degree…hopefully I’ll finish mine before I am 40…crazy but TRUE!

]]> http://doversworld.com/blog/2009/04/27/american-idols-lesson/comment-page-1/#comment-1830 mary-haskins gurganus Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:30:35 +0000 http://doversworld.com/blog/?p=818#comment-1830 AWESOME article! I hope that some day I can join that list of riders too! AWESOME article! I hope that some day I can join that list of riders too!

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