Herber City, Utah, is a beautiful Western town with stunning views of the Wasatch Mountains. You might think it’s more about skiing than dressage, but last fall, Olympic team silver medalist Adrienne Lyle was on-hand at Jim and Donnette Hicks’ Sage Creek Equestrian Center. Genevieve Rohner, a Grade IV para rider, won Dressage Today’s Win A Day clinic with Lyle that was sponsored by Vita Flex Pro. The contest originally took place in 2019 but was delayed by COVID-19, and then Lyle competed in the Tokyo Olympics. Finally, almost two years after Rohner knew she had won, the clinic took place. And as she said, it was worth the wait.
Rohner rode two horses on the day, and the other participants rode different types of horses: a Friesian that tended to get too upright and tight in his neck, a sensitive mare that liked to hide behind the vertical, a gelding that was dull to the leg and a Quarter Horse who needed to be more compact. Despite the variety of horses, Lyle’s training themes were the same: The horse needs to accept the
