Professional French rider and instructor, specializing in dressage training and teaching, from beginner level to Grand Prix, Pierre emphasizes lightness and harmony with the horse.

Professional Experience :
2003 started a dressage training in Woodside area.
1999 Starting my own consulting company "Dressage Sport Horse Consulting"

1998

 Dressage Trainer and director of dressage at Glen EllenFarm, CA
1997 Dressage trainer and director of instruction at Toyon Farm in Napa, CA.
1995-1997 Dressage trainer, Saddle Rock Ranch, Sonoma, CA.
1990-1994 Free-lance rider and instructor.
Clinics with Margritt Otto-Crepin. Daniel Ramseier, Christine Stuckelberger, Philippe Karl, Bruno Lostria, Dirk Meylemans.
1988-1989 Instructor (C.R.A.F.O., Lille). Practical and theoretical training to prepare future professionals Instructors.
1987-1988

- Working student with Dominique Flament, present trainer of the French National Dressage team.
- Clinics with Col. Christian Carde, trainer of the national French Dressage team (working specifically on collection).
- Clinics with Philippe Karl, Cadre Noir, (working on dressage of Spanish horses and lightness).
1984-1986 Moniteur at the Verlinghem riding school.
Responsible for teaching, stable management and training of horses.
Training with Jacques-Henry Menard and Bruno Lostria, French young riders Dressage team trainer.
1976-1980 Working student with Philippe Blondel (former Cadre Noir) and with Hugues Persyn (ecuyer professor)
Diplomas:
1987 "Instructeur" National Equestrian School, Saumur, France. First at the selection process for entrance exam. One year full-time course of studies by the Cadre Noir ecuyers-professors (top riding instructors) to graduate as second degree instructor to teach horseriding at a high level and to prepare future professionals for their exams.

 

1981

 

 "Moniteur" National Equestrian School in Saumur, France. One year full- time course to become a qualified licensed first degree instructor.
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