NEWS
& EVENTS
Horse
Ownership
Judy
De Michele Awarded Certificate
Judy
De Michele recently upgraded her professional skills through the United
States Hunter Jumper Association Trainers Certification Program. She
has completed all requirements to become a USHJA certified trainer.
This is just another certificate under her belt. Judy has over 50 years experience in the horse industry as a rider, trainer, and instructor. She graduated from Southern Seminary Jr. College with an Associates degree in Art and an Equitation Certificate. Ms. De Michele is a certified instructor with a B.A. degree in education from the University of Delaware.
Great job, Judy!
Join Us for the Horse's Birthday Party!
You are invited
to the Horse's Birthday Party. In the tradition of the Jockey Club all
the Hickory Grove Farm horses and all of the PRP, LLC horses will celebrate
their birthdays on January 1st and you are invited to attend.
When: January 1st 2pm to 4pm
Where: Hickory Grove Farm (in the house)
3491 James Madison Highway, Haymarket, VA 20169
RSVP: By December 29th to Judi - (703) 754-2982 or mjdemichele3@yahoo.com
The gifts can be: carrots,
apples, bananas, horse cookies, and hand grazing your favorite horse.
There will be cookies and drinks in the house for everyone. All present
and former students are invited to celebrate with the "stars"
of PRP and their friends.
PRP will be going to watch the Fall Steeplechase Races in Middleburg, VA
Saturday, Oct 1 we will have a railside parking space and a tailgate party during the races. This is a great opportunity to learn a bit about the equine sport of steeplechasing.
You may participate by joining us for the tailgate, for $10 per person plus your admittance fee. Or choose to join us with the full package of walking the course, speaking with the veterinarian in charge of pre race soundness inspections, learning racing terms, getting race records for some of the entered horses and the tail gate for $39 per person. The second option will provide entry to the course by car pooling with purchased car passes.
I will need
a head count by Sept 18 this Sunday in order to secure a good rail side
parking spot.
Judi De Michele
Phone: (703) 754-2982
Email
COOKOUT!
Saturday,
August 27th
1pm - 3pm
Did you attend
our cookout at PRP, LLC? We celebrated a successful year at Hickory
Grove Farm.
Another Successful Horse Show!
PRP and Fox
Meadow School held a very successful Inter School Horse Show on Sunday
May 15th.
Thank You to Fox Meadow School for allowing us to use their facility
and for Len and Kim Yotko's help and time to make this show a success.
The weather held for us and we had a wonderful 65o
day.
Fox Meadow had 17 riders participate, and PRP had 10 riders. All riders improved their performances from last year's show.
The food booth was organized by Jolaine Cage and provided free food throughout the day. Thanks to Jolaine and all who made sandwiches, cookies, quiche, and brought fruit. Fox Meadow School provided drinks, thank you Fox Meadow. The food booth served as our donation booth as well, where we collected over $1500 for the Days End Farm Rescue. Thanks to all.
PRP's Deb Higham gave up showing to be official PRP photographer for the day, taking hundreds of pictures. She is donating pictures to anyone who gave $50 or more to the horse rescue, thanks, Deb.
Congratulations
again to all for a day well done!
Sport
Psychology Presentation
PRP will host a Sport Psychology presentation March 18th by Peter De
Michele second author of " Overcoming the Fear of Riding".
Mr De Michele M.Ed, Phd University Of Virginia has been riding since
an early age. De Michele was National Senior Tetrathlon Champion, graduate
HA Pony Clubber, International Tetrathlon competitor, International
Tetrathlon coach, selected for the Junior International Pentathlon team,
and participated in Show jumping and eventing rallys during his Pony
Club years. He also represented The Chronical of The Horse on an Adult
Team event while an editor there. Foxhunting and cross country riding
were very important in his earlly riding education.
De Michele spent time galloping race horses for several trainers in
the Middleburg VA area. He competed in Point to Point races for several owners and was licensed by The National Steeplechase
Association riding in sanctioned races in PA, MD, VA, and SC. The presentation will be free of charge but you must be registered.
Please call 703-754-2982 to register.
Congratulations
to PRP Students
We wish to congratulate
Avanthi Gopallawa on the
purchase of her first
horse "Another Show",
and Julie McCarron on
the purchase of her first
horse "Lacy Leaguer".
Thank you to Cantatu LLC
and Ann De Michele for
helping both Julie and
Avanthi get started on
the right path!
New Sessions Announced
The current PRP session ends
January 24th. It is time to start planning for the next sessions. Due
to the inclement weather last February, PRP will be splitting the "Spring"
into two sessions and Summer has been announced. Click
here for details
We've MOVED!
The Progressive
Riding Program's move to Hickory Grove Farm is complete. The PRP would
like to thank Henry and Elaine Howard for allowing PRP to use their
farm Still On The Run as a home base for the past 6 years.
Hickory Grove Farm is located at 3491 James Madison Highway in Haymarket, VA 20169. Hickory Grove Farm is along Route 15 with easy access to Route 50, Route 234 and Route 66.
Please don't hesitate to contact us with questions.
M. Judith De Michele
Progressive Riding Program
(703) 754-2982
Barbara Fink
PRP Bookkeeper
(703) 421-3919
Second Inter-School Horse Show Success
We ran our
second Inter-school horse show May 31st with Fox Meadow Farm. Fox
Meadow donated the use of their facility. The joint PRP Fox Meadow
free food booth accepted contributions for the Equine Rescue League,
more than $500 has been collected so far from that effort.
PRP would like to thank Fox Meadow Farm and their students for their
generous donations and the use of their facility. Additionally we at
PRP are extremely proud that the Fox Meadow students selected PRP
Hector as their favorite PRP school horse while PRP selected Raspberry
as their favorite Fox Meadow school horses.
Show Season is Upon Us!
Join us this
for this year's showing season! Current PRP students are invited to
participate in local shows on PRP horses. The rider must be able to
canter in a group and will be responsible for preparing the horse the
day before the show. Currently, PRP is planning to attend winter horse
shows at Frying Pan Park and Fox Chase Farm.
Join Us on Facebook!
We are excited
to announce that we have a Facebook Page! Now that PRP has a Facebook
presence, you can join us for up to the minute news on what's going
on at the barn. Please come join us and share in our community.
Please
click here to visit us!
Another
Award Bestowed upon Judi!
Judi has been selected to receive another award! She has won the Southeast Regional Affiliate Award for sportsmanship from the USHJA. This award as well as the one below, will be presented at the Annual Meeting during the Evening of Equestrians Dinner Dec. 8 in St Petersburg, Florida. Judi will be able to attend these prestigious awards thanks to the help of her students and family who will take over her duties while she is away.
Judith De Michele Wins Award
Our very own Judi was awarded the USHJA Affiliate Sportsmanship award by the Timothy C Hanley $20,000 USHJA Affiliate Show Series. The award will be presented on Sept 12th at the show and a separate award will be given at the USHJA convention in FL in December.
Off to the Races!
PRP is going
to the VA Fall Races in Middleburg on Oct 3. Call for information
on this fun educational trip.
PRP Hosted an Open House!
Hopefully, you met us at the barn on August 30th. The event ran from
6pm to 8pm. Lot's of folks showed up to enjoy the event and brought
contracts, payments and friends that wanted to start riding.
First
Annual Inter-school Horse Show
PRP and Fox Meadow Farm had their first annual inter-school horse
show May 17th at James S. Long Park.
Student Horse Show was a Success!
The
PRP horse show held Sunday Oct 5th raised $1000.00 for the Equine
Rescue League.
I am so pleased with the turn out for the day and the wonderful sportsmanship
shown by everyone there. Our stars were the PRP horses who helped
their fellow equines by putting a whole day of work to help support
equines in need and of course our own fellow students who planned,
executed, and financed the show. A special thank you to all of you
who contributed for the ribbons, flowers, judge, and food. To Jen
a multi thank you for the time and effort you put in for the organization
and the smooth running of the show.
To all of the competitors bravo for trying something new and
for mastering the new skills needed to participate. I hope all of
you had a great learning experience.
-Judi
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Summer Long Lesson Students Here are PRP students at the end of a week of Long Lessons. Long Lessons are offered during the summer, only to PRP students. Each Long Lesson lasts three hours, giving time for individual work within a group structure
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 Pictured left to right: Judi De Michele instructor and students Avanthi Gopallawa, Roz Goldyn, Gabriella Nicchitta and Hannah Doskey. |
STUDENT HORSE OWNERSHIP
PRP is commited to preparing students for future horse ownership. Our instruction is geared toward that goal. We congratulate our students on their horse purchase!
Avanthi Gopallawa and her new horse Zeek.
Photo credit Deb HighamDeb Higham has purchased former PRP school horse Smokey Joe, a thoroughbred gelding.
Photo credit Deb HighamFormer PRP student Julie Hopkins bought Romeo. Julie McCarron with her new horse Lacey Leager. Shelly Mitchell has purchased Join The Dance (Zumba). He is a warmblood gelding Knabbstrupper.
Eryn Peter's new horse Magnificent (Moose) an Irish Draught. Keith Pitchford bought a thoroughbred foxhunter named Cozzy.
Progressive
Riding Program
3491 James Madison Hwy, Haymarket, Virginia 20169
Phone: (703) 754-2982
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