Mette, Finally and Anne Gribbons

At USET/USEF elite pre-Olympic games clinic in San Diego

Great start of 2012!

2012 has started of great! Everyone in Team Mette are very happy and thankful for all the nice horses that we have in the stable. They are all looking really good and we can’t wait to take them out for the coming show season.

Mette has now spent three month training with Steffen Peters in San Diego with Finally. Steffen is really a phenomenal rider and trainer. He is running his stable together with his wife Shannon Peters. Together they have lots of lovely horses and it’s a great atmosphere to be in. Everyone, including their hardworking grooms, has been super friendly and welcoming. Mette was really happy to get such great help. Finally has really stepped up a lot in his new work. His piaff and passage is fantastic and really soon he will have his one tempis set. It will be very exciting to see him in Grand Prix this season.
Mette will continue working with Steffen and will drive down to his place for lessons. For now Finally will mostly be stable at his own barn at Mill Creek since it’s a long drive to be going back and forth a lot and at the same time keep all the horses at home going now when the new show season is getting started.

Before Mette and Finally left San Diego for this time they participated for the second time in the USET/USEF elite pre-Olympic games clinic. The clinic took place at Steffen Peters beautiful farm. Steffen and his wife Shannon did a great job organizing the clinic and everyone was very well taken care of. There were again, many very nice and promising horses.
The format was slightly different from last time when the riders rode the first day with Anne Gribbons and Steffen Peters and for the second day they all rode through the Grand Prix test. This time the riders rode two days with Anne and Steffen where they spent a lot of time and focus on the different movements in the test. Mette really likes the combination with Anne and Steffen. You get the judge, the rider and the trainer’s point of view. . Mette was very happy with Finally who has improved a lot since last time.

As mentioned earlier we have lots of lovely horses at the stable and many of them are getting ready to show this coming weekend as the first show of the year. This time we are going to Los Angeles Equestrian Center in Burbank.
Mette is taking her horses, including Regent, 5 years old, who she is showing for the first time. Mette is also showing Anne Solbraekke’s two horses Rico and Stravinsky in the open Prix St. George.
Mette’s assistant Anna Dahlberg is showing her own horse, also a 5 year old, for the first time and she is also showing Lisa Mc Dowell’s approved PRE stallion, Hielo Mor. Mette’s student Adrienne, Tracy and Margie are also coming with to show their own horses, so we have everything from young horses up to the higher levels at this coming weekend and we wish everyone best of luck!

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