Merry Christmas and all the Best in 2012

Mette would like to thank all her friends, family, fans and sponsors for all the support during a fantastic year 2011 and is looking forward to an even more exciting year 2012!
Mette is very greatful for all the wonderful people and horses that she has around her. Without all your love and support this would not be possible. Team Mette wishes everyone a wonderful holliday and a happy and healthy new year!

Team Mette

USET/USEF Elite pre-Olympic Games prep. clinic

Mette and Finally had a fantastic weekend when they went to the USET/USEF Elite pre-Olympic prep clinic.
The clinic was held at the beautiful Epona farm in West Lake, owned by Linda Fowel.
The reason why the clinic was put together was to see what Grand Prix horses we have in USA. For this time it was the west coast riders who got a chance to train on Friday with both Steffen Peters and the national coach Anne Gribbons.
On Saturday the format was that Steffen Peters was warming up the riders and Anne Gribbons was judging the Grand Prix test with perfect help from Jenny Van Wieren-Page as the most qualified scriber.
The test was filmed by a professional videographer,so when the whole clinic was done on Saturday,we had a chance to sit down with Anne and review and go over the test.
The teamwork between Anne and Steffen was great! Also to have Jenny there so that the riders had a chance to have a good talk, ask questions and get answers was really nice and helpful.

Mette felt that this clinic had the best format ever! Training and test-riding are two totally different things and its an eye-opener to work even harder. Mette is very grateful that she got a chance to be part of the big picture and is very thankful for her wonderful horse Finally, for Finally partner and for her best groom Anna. Without everybodys support this would be even harder.

Pre-Olympic games clinic

USET/USEF is organizing a Elite pre-olympic games clinic. Mette has been invited to ride! The clinic will be held this coming weekend and Mette will be riding Finally. The national coach Anne Gribbons will be giving the clinic together with Steffen Peters. We will keep you updated on how Mette and Finally are doing!

Finally and Mette

Mette and Finally at the USDF National Symposium

Over the weekend the USDF presented the 2011 National symposium in San Diego, CA. This symposium featured the USEF national dressage coaches: Anne Gribbons (Technical Advisor and National coach), Scott Hassler (Young Horse coach), Debbie McDonald (Developing coach) and Jeremy Steinberg (Youth coach). This was the first time they were all gathered together in one arena, providing tips for effective training as they showed the building blocks for success, through Grand Prix.

We were very pleased and proud to see Mette ride Finally in the High performance presentation by Anne Gribbons on Saturday. Finally looked fantastic in front of a large crowed in the big indoor arena in Del Mar. Anne Gribbons was very excited about Finally and she thinks he is an extremely talanted horse.

Along with Mette and Finally in the High performance group were Steffen Peters riding Weltino's Magic, who recently won the Pan American games gold medal and Adrienne Lyle riding her Grand Prix horse Wizard.

Through out the weekend the audience got to watch many very nice, high quality horses from the young four year olds all the way up to Grand Prix level. Between the rides there was also time set to ask questions. What was mainly pointed out was that good riding and good horsemanship is the key to a happy and healthy horse that will perform their best.