Joan Johnston and Joanna Crilly are available to give lessons or clinics at your facility.  For details regarding fees, contact us through the web site.  As well as mounted lessons, if you would like us to give any of the following clinics at your farm, we can do that too. 

The following clinics are available at Kars Riding School on request:

DRESSAGE CLINICS: Joan Johnston and Joanna Crilly are available to travel to your barn to give clinics to riders from novice to Grand Prix.  email: info@karsridingschool.com for details of fees. 

Educate Your Eyes:   Cost: $35.00  An informal and humorous Educate Your Eye clinic.  Demonstrations of correct and incorrect riding & training; horses on and off the bit; half halts (what are half halts?) as they should and shouldn't be ridden; transitions ridden on and off the forehand etc. etc. 

To register or request this clinic: call 613-489-3257 or email: info@karsridingschool.com

Video Clinic:   Cost: $100.00 includes riding instruction on video, video review and analysis.  To register or request this clinic: call 613-489-3257 or email: info@karsridingschool.com

Show grooming Clinic:  On request  Cost: $45.00

Learn how to:

• Bath in hot and colder weather
• Trim ears, muzzle and fetlocks
• Pull and braid manes
• Condition and polish feet
• Make a show day checklist

 Bring your pen and paper, mane comb, some wool, scissors and a clothes peg.

Freestyle Clinics (valid for coaches' updating hours)  9-5pm   for riders just getting started along the way to riding a freestyle as well as those wanting to improve their performance.  This clinic will also be interesting and very educational for coaches who have students wanting to ride a freestyle.  Cost: $100.00  educational material.  No horse required.  Just bring pen and paper as well as a DVD of your horse if you would like help timing its gaits.  Pre-registration and payment is requiremed for this clinic.

Learn how to:

• Have much more fun in the dressage ring
• time your horse's gaits
• tell whether the music is also the correct timing
• Edit your music in a way that will impress the judges (and everyone else)
• film your pattern
• Understand the rules for your level
• design choreography
• plan your entrance and much more.

Minimum of 8 and maximum of 15 participants

To register for any clinic or ask for more information, contact us at 613-489-3257 or email: info@karsridingschool.com