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Happy New Year
Another year come and gone. Amazing isn't
it? I must say though, I can look back and say that 2003 was a
truly wonderful year thanks to the many clients and friends we have
been so lucky to have as a part of our lives.
already June! Ann and
I just returned from the Western States HorsExpo in Sacramento, and were
in Missouri for a week -long clinic at Golden Hills Resort in
mid-May. I think somehow in all the excitement I missed Spring
though. Seems like it was rainy and cool for months, and now
it's in the nineties. Those wonderful Spring riding days with
sunny seventies weather seem to have slipped past me.
As always we have been keeping busy with family,
friends and our wonderful clients. One of my goals for this
year was to significantly redesign my website and I am very pleased
to be able to invite you to to visit the new site and let me know
what you think. The Internet address remains the same:
http://www.cwtraining.com.
In addition to better clinic information,
I am also launching a brand new service for
virtual training that I am
very excited about. It's something I have wanted to do for
quite a while, which leads me into telling you about another
important goal.
I have spent quite a bit of time over the last
year trying to focus my energies and attentions to where my greatest
interests lie. While I truly love working with client's horses
at my ranch, and the challenges of bringing them through colt
starting, performance issues or re-schooling, the work that truly
gives me the greatest joy is training the owners themselves. To
empower people to get the kind of results that trainers like myself
are able to achieve; to teach people that with the right methods,
patience and perseverance that they can have the relationship they
want with their horse - well that work is the most rewarding of all.
But to be able to have the time needed to work
with as many people as possible, means that I must shift my
priorities a bit. Therefore I will be accepting less horses for
training at the ranch in order that I can expand my availability to
conduct more clinics and work with more
apprentices and owners in the
horsemanship educational programs we host at the ranch.
Additionally, I have greatly expanded the topic list of clinics I
offer, and will be able to do more clinics at private facilities,
both locally and nationally. I hear so many times that people
wish I could come to their facility as they cannot bring their
horses to my ranch or to an Expo. Well, now I will be able to
do just that. If you may be interested in having me run a
clinic at your location - just call or email Karen Werth, our ranch
manager. She can also send you the current list of clinic
topics. And by the same token - we have expanded our one to
three week horsemanship programs and made them much more flexible.
Karen can answer any questions about that as well: 510-886-9000 or
cwtraining@comcast.net.
Other news....
Sugar Creek Custom Saddlery has just introduced a
fantastic new CW trail saddle. Weighing in at just twenty-five
pounds, this saddle is beautifully constructed with a deep seat that
will keep you in place throughout any terrain. We will have
pictures on the website in the next week or so.
Space is filling up quickly for the July Ultimate
Horse Camp for Women. If you may be interested, we recommend
making a reservation soon.
We have recently added a Youth Horse Camp
in August, and a brand new "Team Up with the Best" week long clinic
with Charles and Donna Snyder-Smith in October. See details
below.
Tip of the Month....
As you spend time with your horse over the new
few weeks, make sure that you are constantly trying to look at
everything from his or her point of view. We need to learn to
communicate with them in their own language, to appreciate how
they understand their surroundings and interactions. It's
our job to adjust to their point of view, just doesn't work the
other way around.
As always, I invite you to contact me at the
ranch if you have any questions or there is something I can help you
with.
Warm regards to you!
Charles
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