Comments on: My Farewell (Cher) Tour Underway! http://doversworld.com/blog/2009/06/29/my-farewell-cher-tour-underway/ The website of Robert Dover Fri, 18 May 2012 06:28:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8-bleeding-edge hourly 1 By: Krakow guide http://doversworld.com/blog/2009/06/29/my-farewell-cher-tour-underway/comment-page-1/#comment-117514 Krakow guide Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:19:00 +0000 http://doversworld.com/blog/?p=1278#comment-117514 I became pretty pleased to access this great site.I would like to thank you for this specific terrific post!! Actually appreciating every word of it and I book marked to follow fresh things you write-up. I became pretty pleased to access this great site.I would like to thank you for this specific terrific post!! Actually appreciating every word of it and I book marked to follow fresh things you write-up.

]]> By: Robin Vaughn-Strait http://doversworld.com/blog/2009/06/29/my-farewell-cher-tour-underway/comment-page-1/#comment-3071 Robin Vaughn-Strait Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:34:49 +0000 http://doversworld.com/blog/?p=1278#comment-3071 have been trying for an entire week to formulate a " thank you" that would appropriately describe how tremendously inspiring your weekend clinic in Cincinnati was for me and my students! Without gushing I would definitely say that it was the BEST clinic I have ever attended (Guenter being the only Olympian in the last 6 teams I have not seen). We left feeling inspired though exhausted as we rode every ride along with you! We were so proud to have "the trainer of trainers" in Ohio. Thank you again Mr. Dover, you are truly the master of our sport and it was an honor to watch you mold a beautiful horse into a brilliant one. Thanks so much Robert, Becky and Chris for making this happen! Also thanks to the riders for sharing their lovely horses with us. Sincerely, Robin Vaughn-Strait & Finer Things Farm have been trying for an entire week to formulate a ” thank you” that would appropriately describe how tremendously inspiring your weekend clinic in Cincinnati was for me and my students! Without gushing I would definitely say that it was the BEST clinic I have ever attended (Guenter being the only Olympian in the last 6 teams I have not seen). We left feeling inspired though exhausted as we rode every ride along with you! We were so proud to have “the trainer of trainers” in Ohio. Thank you again Mr. Dover, you are truly the master of our sport and it was an honor to watch you mold a beautiful horse into a brilliant one.

Thanks so much Robert, Becky and Chris for making this happen!
Also thanks to the riders for sharing their lovely horses with us.

Sincerely,
Robin Vaughn-Strait & Finer Things Farm

]]> By: Lara Silver http://doversworld.com/blog/2009/06/29/my-farewell-cher-tour-underway/comment-page-1/#comment-3060 Lara Silver Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:41:28 +0000 http://doversworld.com/blog/?p=1278#comment-3060 I would also like to take a moment and personally thank Mr. Dover, Chris, Becky, and everyone else involved in putting this clinic together. I was one of the 10 riders lucky enough to ride with Mr. Dover and could not be more pleased with the experience. This symposium was an eye opening experience that reminded me of why I love this sport so much. It has re-energized my passion for dressage and led to a new level of motivation and determination for reaching mine and my horses full potential. Again, thank you to everyone involved! -Lara Silver and Highlander I would also like to take a moment and personally thank Mr. Dover, Chris, Becky, and everyone else involved in putting this clinic together. I was one of the 10 riders lucky enough to ride with Mr. Dover and could not be more pleased with the experience. This symposium was an eye opening experience that reminded me of why I love this sport so much. It has re-energized my passion for dressage and led to a new level of motivation and determination for reaching mine and my horses full potential. Again, thank you to everyone involved!

-Lara Silver and Highlander

]]> By: Becky Knollman http://doversworld.com/blog/2009/06/29/my-farewell-cher-tour-underway/comment-page-1/#comment-3057 Becky Knollman Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:45:02 +0000 http://doversworld.com/blog/?p=1278#comment-3057 We cannot thank Robert enough for coming to Ohio! What a opportunity for everyone who came to ride and audit. It was exciting to see the talent we have right here in the Midwest! Becky Knollman, Cincinnati Dressage Tradition We cannot thank Robert enough for coming to Ohio! What a opportunity for everyone who came to ride and audit. It was exciting to see the talent we have right here in the Midwest!
Becky Knollman, Cincinnati Dressage Tradition

]]> By: Sandra McGuire http://doversworld.com/blog/2009/06/29/my-farewell-cher-tour-underway/comment-page-1/#comment-3048 Sandra McGuire Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:44:52 +0000 http://doversworld.com/blog/?p=1278#comment-3048 For anyone who is presented the opportunity to attend one of these Farewell Tour Symposiums.... DO IT!!! You will gain insights and fill in understandings and come home ready to approach your partner with a whole new set of tools. Trainers, bring your students and for younger students, bring their parents. Even one day is the experience of a lifetime! Robert, thank you so much for coming to Ohio! I am so glad that I came and brought my husband with me (especially since he had no problem asking questions). While I do not have a horse with fantastic conformation or upper level potential, he is a great partner and I want to do the best I can for him and ride him in a way that allows him to be the performer he was born to be. You have helped me put so many missing pieces together and I am grateful. I echo Francesca's comments, and feel it extends below our upper level riders. The need for richer programs, focussing on basics stretches all the way to our first lessons. To our kids, and those of us who entered into riding and the sport of dressage as adults. The first time we take a breath on a horse, it shouldn't just be to settle our nerves, but to set ourselves up for a lifetime of learning and connecting with our dance partner. Each new lesson, each new movement, is a time for us to set our goals and ride toward them. Think how great a program this country would have if in every equestrian discipline, our trainers believed they were working with a future Gold Medalist. The other thing you and the riders gave to all of the auditors was a picture of what to ride toward. I've seen some very good horses and some very fine movements, but to sit for hour after hour and just watch what a fabulous extended trot looks like, or a truly engaged collected walk, helped burn the movie of what I should be striving toward into my mind. (I know that I don't have the foundation for some of those movements, but now I know the energy that I need to create for that future to exist). There are trainers who push us and want us to believe that anything is possible when we first ride a given horse. They may never have ridden Grand Prix, or even beyond third level, but they want us to have a goal and work with us to achieve it. They are the ones who say "you can do this. I believe in you, you need to believe in you and your horse". I would love to see a list of those trainers in my local tack shop. We need a program to support them too. Thank you to everyone who worked so hard to put this fantastic opportunity together! If you have a video of the rides and presentation, please let us know. They'd make great birthday or Christmas presents! Sandy, Darrell, and Oscar McGuire For anyone who is presented the opportunity to attend one of these Farewell Tour Symposiums…. DO IT!!! You will gain insights and fill in understandings and come home ready to approach your partner with a whole new set of tools. Trainers, bring your students and for younger students, bring their parents. Even one day is the experience of a lifetime!

Robert, thank you so much for coming to Ohio! I am so glad that I came and brought my husband with me (especially since he had no problem asking questions).
While I do not have a horse with fantastic conformation or upper level potential, he is a great partner and I want to do the best I can for him and ride him in a way that allows him to be the performer he was born to be. You have helped me put so many missing pieces together and I am grateful.
I echo Francesca’s comments, and feel it extends below our upper level riders. The need for richer programs, focussing on basics stretches all the way to our first lessons. To our kids, and those of us who entered into riding and the sport of dressage as adults. The first time we take a breath on a horse, it shouldn’t just be to settle our nerves, but to set ourselves up for a lifetime of learning and connecting with our dance partner. Each new lesson, each new movement, is a time for us to set our goals and ride toward them. Think how great a program this country would have if in every equestrian discipline, our trainers believed they were working with a future Gold Medalist.
The other thing you and the riders gave to all of the auditors was a picture of what to ride toward. I’ve seen some very good horses and some very fine movements, but to sit for hour after hour and just watch what a fabulous extended trot looks like, or a truly engaged collected walk, helped burn the movie of what I should be striving toward into my mind. (I know that I don’t have the foundation for some of those movements, but now I know the energy that I need to create for that future to exist).
There are trainers who push us and want us to believe that anything is possible when we first ride a given horse. They may never have ridden Grand Prix, or even beyond third level, but they want us to have a goal and work with us to achieve it. They are the ones who say “you can do this. I believe in you, you need to believe in you and your horse”. I would love to see a list of those trainers in my local tack shop. We need a program to support them too.

Thank you to everyone who worked so hard to put this fantastic opportunity together! If you have a video of the rides and presentation, please let us know. They’d make great birthday or Christmas presents!

Sandy, Darrell, and Oscar McGuire

]]> By: Francesca Nicoletti http://doversworld.com/blog/2009/06/29/my-farewell-cher-tour-underway/comment-page-1/#comment-3047 Francesca Nicoletti Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:48:50 +0000 http://doversworld.com/blog/?p=1278#comment-3047 I wanted to thank Mr. Dover from the bottom of my heart for this past weekends symposium in Cincinnati. I was blessed to ride with him with my new Andalusian partner "Faraon." The outcome of this weekend, however, was not as I expected. Mr. Dover said out loud what I have been feeling in my heart. "We need a program!! I need a program!!!" i have been struggeling alone for quite awhile to find someone who can guide me and this magnificent horse. I am praying Mr. Dover reads this and can suggest someone or perhaps himself??!!(in florida??) I am forever in his debt to get me "back on the yellow brick road". The dressage world certainly has been blessed to have someone like you. Very Fondly, Francesca Nicoletti and Faraon I wanted to thank Mr. Dover from the bottom of my heart for this past weekends symposium in Cincinnati. I was blessed to ride with him with my new Andalusian partner “Faraon.” The outcome of this weekend, however, was not as I expected. Mr. Dover said out loud what I have been feeling in my heart. “We need a program!! I need a program!!!” i have been struggeling alone for quite awhile to find someone who can guide me and this magnificent horse. I am praying Mr. Dover reads this and can suggest someone or perhaps himself??!!(in florida??) I am forever in his debt to get me “back on the yellow brick road”. The dressage world certainly has been blessed to have someone like you.
Very Fondly,

Francesca Nicoletti and Faraon

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