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European Dressage
News
Markne and Sandgaard to Team Teach in Clinic in Wellington,
FL
February 14, 2008
 Scandinavia’s most recognized trainers Pether
Markne and Per Sandgaard will be team teaching a clinic
at Over the Moon Farm in Wellington, Florida, March
18-20, 2008.
Swedish Trainer of the Year and Grand
Prix rider Pether Markne and his partner
former Danish Olympian Per Sandgaard
are heading
to Wellington, Florida to do a team teaching clinic
for the first time ever.
The famous dressage couple belongs
to the Swedish A-team and both aim to go to the Olympic
Games in Hong Kong. Per
and Pether train, live and teach together.
“We have such different personalities that it brings
a lot of dynamics into our classes,” says Pether.
Their extraordinairy skills, wittiness and ability
to create a show performing combination with all
their students will without a doubt make a lasting
impression
on the
participants as well as the audience at this unique
clinic. Both Markne and Sandgaard are self-made
talents which every dressage rider admires so much.
Their will to be at the top has created their
outstanding personalities as well as performing ability.
 Per
surprised his colleagues in 2004 by qualifying 15-year-old
Zancor for the Olympic Games in Athens
2004. Zancor was an unknown KWPN gelding, foaled by
a simple school horse and had not done more than second
level dressage by age 13.
“Zancor was one of those horses that you meet once in
a lifetime,” says Per, who still misses the horse
that was sold to Nadine Capellmann right after the
games.
Today Sandgaard has two new Grand Prix horses
in his and Pether’s barn, just south of Stockholm,
Sweden. Orient and Memphis are two very talented and
capable horses
that might be seen in the Olympic Games of 2008. Per
and Orient were part of the Swedish bronze medal team
in the European Championship in Turin 2007.
Pether rides
the gorgeous KWPN Goodtimes gelding, Nijinsky, who
is taking the judges by storm every time he shows. “We
haven’t been able to show too much due to
the fact that Nijinsky has had a shoeing problem. I
believe to have solved the issue now. He looks better
than ever.”
In the Olympic Games of 2000 in Sydney,
Pether showed Kyra Kyrklund´s former stallion,
Flyinge Amiral, with great success. Amiral 764 died
in California in 2003 but still has one of the highest
breeding values in the SWB studbook based on the performance
of his
offspring.
 Per and Pether train up to 100 students per
week all around Scandinavia. Per returns to Denmark
every month
to train his friends and former colleagues. Pether
trains not only the future Grand Prix riders in
dressage, but also the Swedish A-team in jumping. His
student,
Malin
Baryard, was ranked #1 in the world in 2005 with
her mare Butterfly Flip.
The clinic takes place at Over the Moon Farm on 167
59 Deerpath, Wellington. Everyone is welcome to come
and watch for free. Entry fee to ride is 160 USD per
class.
For more information
about the clinic, please contact Kathy Crosby +1
978 317 9090
Related Links
Peter Markne and Per Sandgaard Move House
Heart to Heart with Per Sandgaard
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