Erika Hawkes

Erika is a MA Licensed Instructor with over 20 years of Teaching/Training Experience. She is a Graduate Pony Clubber who has Competed through Intermediate Level Eventing and Successfully completed several CCI*'s including an 8th Place at Radnor Hunt. She has Started and Trained Several Ex-Race Horses to be Successful Eventers. She is Currently Competing Bright Spark at the Preliminary Level.  Erika Teaches Tuesday-Saturday and is Available for Coaching at Shows. Training Packages are Available and Beginners are Welcome. Click here for a full list of rates.
 

Working Student
Haley Casbeer, from Corning New York spending her second summer with us. She is a Pony Club, 4H and Therapeutic Riding Volunteer. Along with assisting Erika, she does regular barn duties, assists Barn Manager Amy and observes the vetrinarians. She will be attending Becker College this fall as a Pre Vet Major.
We are now taking Working Student Resumes for the upcoming Fall and Winter.

Outside Instructors

Stephanie Baer

Stephie is an Advanced Level International event rider. She has competed at Bromont (Canada), Mexico, Rolex Kentucky, Burghley (England), and short listed for the 1998 U.S. World Championship Team. Stephie has taught for 20 years from beginner through the advanced level and for the last eight years at Course Brook.  She currently teaches on Mondays.  $85.00, 1 hour private lesson

 


Renate Lansburg

Renate is one of the premier and most respected Dressage instructors, judges and authors in the northeast. Classical Dressage Instruction. USAE R Judge, Clinics. USDF Bronze & Silver Medalist, USDF Certified Instuctor through the Fourth Level. Renate has instructed and trained in the U.S. for 20 years and at Course Brook for the last six. She is available on Wednesday & Friday mornings. $90, 1 hour private lesson.

Rhonda Jackson

Rhonda is a former USDF Bronze Medalist and has Shown Throughout the Northeast and on the Florida Winter Cicuit Winning Many NEDA Year End Awards. She Manages CBF's Popular Clinics with Anne Guptill and is Available for Dressage and Event Instuction to Adults and Juniors. One hour lessons.

Eventing techniques with Suzie Gornall

Suzie Gornall has been a successful competitor and a popular instructor in the sport of eventing for many years with a winter base in Aiken, South Carolina and a summer base in Uxbridge, Massachusetts.  Suzie attends about 30 events per year as a rider and/or coach! 

In conjunction with Course Brook Farm, a 60 acre country facility with cross-country fences designed and built by James Gornall, Suzi Gornall is going to again host a series of 6 focused tutorials which are: 1) Galloping  2) Dressage and Cross Country Integration  3) Cross Country & Show Jumping Integration  4) Jumping at Speed 5) Trick Cross Country Jumps  6) Whole Course Riding. These sessions will be held Wednesdays  starting in July 20th. 

Don’t miss this opportunity to gain greater knowledge and to train with Suzie Gornall!  For information and times, please contact Janet Sinclair @ 508.653.5614, home, or 508.523.3327, cell.  Again, the clinic dates and times are available on a first-come, first-serve basis. 

Mark Weissbecker

In 1995, Mark Weissbecker was the highest-placed U.S. finisher (8th) in the Burghley CCI****. He repeated that feat in 1996 when he finished in 16th place.  He rode Best Seller to the 1994 USET Fall Three Day Event Championship with a win at the Fair Hill International CCI***.  Weissbecker was long-listed for the 1988 Olympic team with Linde's Tigre Pass. In 1997, he represented the United States in the European Open Three-Day Event Championships at Burghley, during which he posted a clear round in stadium jumping.  A Pony Club graduate, he serves as manager and trainer for Birch Hill Farm in Richmond, MA.
(Courtesy United States Equestrian Team, www.uset.org )
Clinic Fees:  (groups of 3 or 4, time dependent on # of students) $150 for 2 hours .
Space is limited and on a first-come, first-serve basis. 
(Lessons will be indoors or outdoors, weather permitting.)  
Contact:  Janet Sinclair, 508.653.5614

Claude Boulard

Claude Boulard is classically trained in the method of the French masters, with an emphasis on the rider's lightness and the horse's willingness to do his or her job in a forward, relaxed manner. Originally a show jumper, Claude has also shown in Dressage, and received Area I Year End Awards while competing as an eventer shortly after he came to the US. He and his wife Martha Endicott, a successful FEI dressage rider, own, manage and train at Forest Edge Farm in Georgetown, MA, where they also enjoy importing young horses for sale.
Clinic Fees: (groups of 3 or 4) $75 for 90 minutes
Space is limited and on a first-come, first-serve basis. 
(Lessons will be indoors or outdoors if weather permits.)  
Contact: Janet Sinclair, 508.653.5614