BY CHRISTINE HAMILTON, FIELD EDITOR
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| Anastasia Bienfait of Team France works on her circles with Jo C Yankee. | Clinician Pierre-Luc Phaneuf helps out with spins in the warm-up arena. |
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| Clinician Dean Brown gives some pointers to Jacqueline Andersson of Team Sweden - she's riding Tabus Great Fox. | Team United States' Kyle Fuller drew Docs Sassy Jac for the afternoon competition. |
Headed up by Dean Brown of Waterford, Ontario, and Pierre-Luc Phaneuf of Saint-Basile-Le, Quebec, no less than six horsemen were on hand to help out with the 2008 AQHA Youth World Cup reining clinic on July 12, and two of them offered a French translation.
With 32 entries in the afternoon reining, the clinicians broke up the riders into two groups for two separate morning clinics.
Dean, Danny Tremblay and Paul McGrath worked in the main arena on circles and stops. Pierre-Luc, Craig Black and Darren Bilyea worked on spins and lead changes in the warm-up arena.
“We’re just trying to get each kid comfortable with their horse,” Craig said. “So they can show it to the best of their ability." Craig and his daughter, Sherri, also brought horses for the competition - 12 total, between their two barns.
“They’re all doing really good,” he added. “This is a difficult situation: get on a strange horse, ride it for two hours and go show it.”
The competition called for AQHA reining pattern No. 5, a walk in to the center of the arena.
“Your whole pattern begins from here,” Dean said to the group, standing in the middle of the arena. If they didn’t start right he pointed out that the rest of the pattern would not flow.
“C’est parfait! Tres, tres bon,” reiner Danny called out in French to Anastasia Bienfait of Team France.
Almost at the same time, Dean said, “Perfect! It looks really pretty,” but he was talking to Rachel Elliot of Team Australia.
Now let’s keep our fingers crossed that they will stay perfect for show time.
