Fun and Games With Art Grunig!

Date: April 23rd
Sign Up: 8:00am
Fee: $100
Call 415-897-8212 to sign up 
Time: 9:00 am till about Noon, 1:00 pm till about 3:00 PM
Location: Willow Tree Stables, Novato, CA

GAMES DETAILS: 

‘Kissing Contest’ 

See how many times your horse can touch a target with its nose without moving faster than a walk. This course consists of astarting point, marked with a cone, and two poles on the ground leading up to a post. Begin at the cone, walk up to the target, ‘kiss’ it with the horse’s nose, and return around the cone as many times as possible. Stepping outside of the poles or going faster than a walk will result in disqualification. How many kisses can you get in?

Treat Racing

Can your horse pick up a treat and make it back across the finish line without dropping it? Begin by crossing the starting line, travel to a barrel with a horse treat of your choice waiting on it, get your horse to pick up the treat and return to the start/finish line. If the treat is dropped, you are out of the contest. Treat racing will have three divisions; first is no faster than a walk, second round is no faster than a trot, and the third round is any safe speed. Separate divisions for bit and hackamore.

Team Trail

Team up with a partner and ride a trail course in tandem! The course will consist of a gate, walk overs, backing, a cone weave, and a figure eight. With the exception of opening and closing the gates for one another, the riders must maintain some degree of an overlap when viewed from the side. All trail work is done at a walk.

ART GRUNIG 707-838-9755  artgrunig@aol.com

Art Grunig has trained horses professionally for forty years. Since 1986 he’s incorporated bodywork so his horses train and perform even better. His successful career includes over 30 championships and reserve championships won by him and his students at regional and national levels. Art has trained horses for reining, cutting, working cow horse, western riding, western pleasure, trail, jumping, dressage, gaited horses, jousting, vaulting, driving, and racing. Art has performed his work form coast to coast in the USA, in Hawaii, Mexico, Italy, the Virgin Islands, and Ethiopia.

Art developed a neurologically based equine bodywork method called Reflex Balancing. Art is also trained in massage, cranio-sacral therapy, lymphatic drainage, and visceral manipulation, watsu and tantsu. He’s studied in the United States, France, and Italy.

While the body work greatly enhances training, the training has done even more to help Art's body work. Having horses to work on every day and ride them too has taught Art what body work techniques truly make a difference.

 Click for Art's Website

For more information about Art go to ArtGrunig.com. 

February 12, 2011 at the Marin Humane Society

Challenging Times

How Well Will Your Horse Fare?

171 Bel Marin Keys Blvd. | Novato

8:30 - 9:00 a.m.

Registration and coffee

9:00 - 9:15 a.m.

Welcome and Update by MHC President Joel Bartlett

9:15 - 11:15 a.m.

Managed Care for Geriatric Horses presented by Grant Miller, D.V.M.

11:30 - 12:30 a.m.

Saddle Fitting for You and Your Horse presented by Max Gerdes of Devoucoux

12:30 - 1:30 a.m.

Tack and Wrap Exhibit and Presentations by the Redwood Pony Club

TICKETS AT THE DOOR: $20 adults, $10 for under 16. For more information contact Marina Eisenzimmer at eisenzimmer@hotmail.com or 415.488.0950.

Marin Horse Council | 171 Bel Marin Keys Blvd. | Novato, CA | www.marinhorsecouncil.org

In March we will be hosting a Clinic focusing on fear while riding.  This clinic will be given by Art Grunig, www.artgrunig.com.  I’ve known Art for as many years as I can remember and he’s always championed the amateur rider.   Art is a very successful horse trainer who is also committed to the comfort of the horse through body work.  I encourage riders who may be having some fear issues while riding to join us March 19^th.  There is a flyer posted our site.

April will find us riding to Novato Horseman’s arena.  This is a 4 hour ride from WTS over to Mt. Burdell, under Hwy 101 and on to the Novato Horseman’s grounds where we will have lunch.  This is a long, but easy ride and we would like to encourage you to come along.

April is also when my friend Liz Marks is hosting a roping clinic at her Stonyford ranch up near Red Bluff.  The clinicians are Dave Weaver and Gwen Turnbull of the Californios, yes the same Californios who put on the ranch roping competition in May at the Reno Event Center.  Check out “The Californios” on line.  Cool stuff. 

May holds the promise of not only the Californios but “The Light Handed Horsesman’s Clinic” in Santa Inez.  I’m going.  This is where all of the history of the Vaquero style of riding was born and there are some of the great names in horse training doing demonstrations the 19^th – 22nd.  Jack Brainard, Eitan Beth Halachmy, cowgirl hall of famer, Sheila Varian, plus a whole bunch more.  Check out “Light Hands Horsemanship”  

Let’s have a great Spring by focusing on our horses and helping us to become better riders for their sake. 

-- Monte

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