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FLAIR Master Class series - Bending Lines with a twist!

 
Team FLAIR Eventer and member of the USPC Board of Governors Eric Dierks takes the viewer on a course walk of the 2010 AEC XC course. In this sixth video in the FLAIR Master Class series featuring Eric Dierks, he discusses the more bending lines with a twist! Click here ...

FLAIR LLC ANNOUNCES SPONSORSHIP OF TWO COURSE WALKS AT THE 2012 ROLEX KENTUCKY CCI4* THREE-DAY EVENT.

 
Flair LLC, maker of FLAIR® Equine Nasal Strips and a 2012 Rolex Kentucky CCI4* Three-Day Event sponsor,  is pleased to announce its sponsorship of two course walks to be held during the 2012 Rolex Kentucky CCI4* Three-Day Event. The first course walk, lead by two-time Olympic Gold Medalist Phillip Dutton, ...

The Eric Dierks Clinic Report

 
We had a fabulous clinic with Eric Dierks last weekend.  I have to tell you it was a real 'leap of faith' scheduling an outdoor clinic in OH in March. I just hoped it would be dry and assumed it would be chilly.  Never in a million years did ...

RRTP Trainer's Challenge Finale... in photos

 
--Sarah Andrew Over the years, I've attended the Pennsylvania Horse World Expo many times. The crowd that gathered in the Equine Arena to see the finale of the Retired Racehorse Training Project's Trainer Challenge was by far the biggest I've ever seen. The seats surrounding the arena were completely filled ...

Retired Racehorse Trainer Challenge Finale

 
The Finale of the Retired Racehorse Trainer Challenge at the 2012 Pennsylvania Horse World Expo. Featuring Tiffany Catledge on High Level (owned by Jim Falk), Kerry Blackmer on Four X The Trouble (owned by Robin Coblyn), Eric Dierks on Brazilian Wedding (owned by Pat Dale) and Tiffany Catledge again ...

Eric Dierks Wins the Retired Racehorse Trainer Challenge

 
March 1, 2012 Laurie Berglie Baltimore Horse Examine On Sunday, February 25th, Eric Dierks was announced the winner of the first ever Retired Racehorse Trainer Challenge.  Sponsored by Steuart Pittman’s Retired Racehorse Training Project (RRTP), this Challenge was the first of its kind and was split into two parts between the Maryland ...

Retired Racehorse Training Project rocks it!

 
By Susan Salk on February 29, 2012 Every seat was filled. And still, people streamed into the arena. They congregated four- and five-people deep, at the fence surrounding the arena, or peered down from above, hoping to glimpse the action from a mezzanine. Little children hung over the railing and stretched as ...

HJU’s Throughbred Update – What A HUGE Success for the Retired Racehorse Training Challenge!

 
February 28, 2012 Posted by Holly Covey under OTTBs I promised I’d find a way to use the word, “huge” to describe the first Retired Racehorse Training Challenge, and that word definitely fit the number of people who packed in, standing room only three-deep, to watch the final presentation ...

Personal moment from the Trainer Challenge by Eric Dierks

 
It was 2:30pm at the Pa. Horse Expo and I was sitting on Brazilian Wedding along with the other two trainers on their mounts about to enter the indoor arena to demonstrate what she was capable of after one month of training. You could hear the crowds gathering in ...

"Ambassadors" for the Breed: the Retired Racehorse Trainers Challenge, Off-the-track-Thoroughbreds, and trainers Challenge winner, Eric Dierks

 
By Mary Getsey Bernier   The post-weekend buzz kicking off the week was off-the-track-Thoroughbreds (OTTBs), and the folks who love them:  specifically, the Retired Racehorse Training Project's Trainers Challenge; Brazilian Wedding (owned by Pat Dale, Three Plain Bays); and winner of the Trainer Challenge, Eric Dierks (Renovatio Farms, Tryon, NC).  Click here ...