Catherine Haddad Aims at the 2006 World Equestrian Games
Catherine Haddad has expressed her intent of qualifying for the United States Equestrian Team to compete at the 2006 World Equestrian Games in Aachen, Germany. Permanently based in Vechta, Germany, Haddad has been in the Euro-picture this year aboard the 12-year old Danish Warmblood Maximus JSS. With top sixty percentage marks, Haddad is walking in the footsteps of Lisa Wilcox who had to go through specific procedures to qualify for the U.S. team, as she too was based in Germany.
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Find out more about cost for quality dressage lessons at Windsong Dressage and Equestrian Center. If you have questions you can email Ulla Hudson, our German Certified Instructor.

Windsong Dressage and Equestrian Center
#733, Route 344, Cedar Grove, Edgewood, NM, 87015, USA
505-615-5050

Local riding instructor earns Germany’s highest equestrian teaching qualification



Ulla Hudson, Reitlehrer, FN
TEL: 505/615-5050
FAX: 505/286 7791
ulla@windsongdressage.com

Local riding instructor earns Germany’s highest equestrian teaching qualification

East Mountains, Albuquerque, NM -- Thursday, June 1, 2006 -- Ulla Hudson has been awarded Germany’s top qualification for equestrian trainers, the Trainer A of the German FN (Reitlehrer, FN) . After a month of intensive training and examination in Europe, Ms. Hudson was awarded the degree of Trainer A in both jumping and dressage. She is the only trainer in New Mexico, and one of only a handful outside Germany, with this advanced qualification. At the same time, she received the German FN Silver Performance medal in Dressage and Jumping. Ulla Hudson already holds the Silver and Bronze Medals of the United States Dressage Federation.

"This has been my dream since I was six years old,” said Ulla, who with her husband Patrick Hudson MD, is the owner of Windsong Dressage and Equestrian Center. Windsong is an 80 acre horse farm in the East Mountains within easy reach of both Santa Fe and Albuquerque.

"With my new qualifications, I can develop the finest teaching program that truly meets the diverse needs of my many students," she said. "My students will be assured of having the best possible teaching available to help them develop into first class riders, whether in dressage or jumping."

Ulla Hudson was born in Germany and came to the United States in 1979. She founded Windsong Dressage and Equestrian Center in 1984. She has been a resident of New Mexico since 1981.

Dressage is an international Olympic discipline that seeks to train horses in obedience and precision of movement. Windsong Dressage and Equestrian Center is a complete horse facility that offers boarding, training, riding instruction, tack sales and horse importation.

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Find out more about Ulla and the Trainer A, FN qualification at Windsong Dressage and Equestrian Center. If you have questions you can email Ulla Hudson, our German Certified Instructor.

Windsong Dressage and Equestrian Center
#733, Route 344, Cedar Grove, Edgewood, NM, 87015, USA
505-615-5050

Toppled horse box slows M4
TWO horses have had to be treated by vets after their box toppled over on the M4. Lanes were shut and traffic built up fast as officers had to create an area for the animals to be treated and then loaded into another vehicle. The accident happened shortly before 9am yesterday just east of Junction 15 (Swindon) when the horse box was travelling along the M4 westbound towed by a Land Rover car. The occupants of the Land Rover, from the Southampton area, were uninjured. They were believed to have been taking the horses to a competition. Officers investigating the incident believe a tyre blew out on the trailer and as the Land Rover went into the hard shoulder, the horsebox toppled over leaving one horse with a cut on its leg.
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Find out more about boarding your horse at Windsong Dressage and Equestrian Center. If you have questions you can email Ulla Hudson, our German Certified Instructor.

Windsong Dressage and Equestrian Center
#733, Route 344, Cedar Grove, Edgewood, NM, 87015, USA
505-615-5050

Remember for saddle fitting in New Mexico and USDF Region 5 contact Ulla Hudson, Reitlehrer FN, at 505 615 5050 or ulla@windsongdressage.com

The Nine Points of Saddle Fitting
Your saddle affects the way you ride and the way your horse performs. Learn how to evaluate this very basic piece of riding equipment. At the risk of sounding like a school-kid returning to class in the fall, I must say that I went to camp this summer. No, not to learn canoeing, nature crafts, or even dressage. I went to "saddle camp." For the better part of a week, our group of eight, made up of professional saddle-fitters, tack-shop owners, riders, an insurance agent, a college professor and an assistant editor--me--bent over carpet-covered workbenches in a classroom at the Potomac Horse Center in Gaithersburg, Maryland. We used assorted-sized metal "flocking irons" and wooden "smashers" to push and shape soft wool into saddle panels, while our instructor, saddler David Young of Raleigh, North Carolina, looked on. "Put the flocking in there as light and fluffy as possible," he told us. "Don't let it ball up." We heeded his word and worked intently, knowing an intensive five-part practical test and written exam loomed at week's end. The course, sponsored by the Master Saddlers Association (MSA), was an education in equine anatomy and saddle fitting. As I realized at the time I enrolled in the course, it's impossible to teach or to learn everything there is to know about these subjects in just five days. But you can take people who already know something about horses and saddle fitting, teach them the basics of what they don't know and give them guidelines for standard saddle-fitting procedures.
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Find out more about saddle fitting at Windsong Dressage and Equestrian Center. If you have questions you can email Ulla Hudson, our German Certified Instructor.

Windsong Dressage and Equestrian Center
#733, Route 344, Cedar Grove, Edgewood, NM, 87015, USA
505-615-5050

Does Your Dressage Saddle Fit?
A British Master Saddler's checklist for making sure your current dressage saddle (or a new one you might be trying) isn't causing your horse problems.
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Find out more about saddle fitting at Windsong Dressage and Equestrian Center. If you have questions you can email Ulla Hudson, our German Certified Instructor.

Windsong Dressage and Equestrian Center
#733, Route 344, Cedar Grove, Edgewood, NM, 87015, USA
505-615-5050

Your Horse's Limbs: Does Form Follow Function?
No hoof, no horse is a time-tested adage. So, too, is the advice -- given in countless books, articles, and videos -- to scrutinize a horse's conformation carefully before you buy. No doubt you've seen the photos and illustrations of "good" and "bad" conformation, and you've studied them carefully and tried to measure prospective mounts against the ideal. But just what constitutes "ideal?" To some people, ideal might mean "prettiest" or "most pleasing to the eye." To others, it might mean "best suited to my chosen discipline," regardless of how it looks. To still others, it might mean "most likely to remain sound" or a combination of all three. As anyone who has ever bought a young horse as a "prospect" can attest, at times there seems to be no relationship among so-called good conformation, performance success, and career longevity.
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Get advice about buying a horse from Windsong Dressage and Equestrian Center. If you have questions you can email Ulla Hudson, our German Certified Instructor.

Windsong Dressage and Equestrian Center
#733, Route 344, Cedar Grove, Edgewood, NM, 87015, USA
505-615-5050

EXPANDED WINDSONG DRESSAGE AND EQUESTRIAN CENTER NOW ONE OF THE LARGEST DRESSAGE FARMS IN NEW MEXICO

Windsong Dressage and Equestrian Center is pleased to announce the acquisition of forty acres adjacent to its current farm. This addition increases Windsong to eighty acres and makes it one of the largest dressage farms in New Mexico. Located in the foothills of South Mountain, Windsong is ideally suited to the training of all types of horses.
Dressage is an international Olympic discipline that seeks to train horses in obedience and precision of movement. Windsong Dressage and Equestrian Center is a complete horse facility in the East Mountains of Albuquerque, in South Santa Fe County, New Mexico. It opened in 1984. Ulla Hudson is the owner and full-time instructor. She is a German born and trained dressage instructor with a lifetime of experience in dressage and classical methods of training.
NOTE: Editors call for a tour of our facility

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Find out more about Windsong Dressage and Equestrian Center. If you have questions you can email Ulla Hudson, our German Certified Instructor.

Windsong Dressage and Equestrian Center
#733, Route 344, Cedar Grove, Edgewood, NM, 87015, USA
505-615-5050