2023 FHANA Judging Clinic

FHANA will be conducting a level 1 Judging clinic November 7-9 at the Murieta Equestrian Center and again November 14-16 at the Hoosier Horse Park.

Clinics are now open for registrations and you can sign up by contacting the FHANA office at 859-455-7430 to reserve your spot.

Clinics will be taught by KFPS Judge Will Thijssen and will cover the following materials.

Day 1
08.45 – 09.00 am               Welcome with coffee; handing out course book and other material

09.00 – 10.30                      Meet the course leaders and the participants; getting to know each other

Short introduction video

System of judging with marks, premiums and predicates

Theory about racial type and conformation

10.30 – 10.45                      Break

10.45 – 12.30                      Continuation of the theory

00.30 – 01.30 pm               Lunch

01.30 – 03.00                      Practice; repetition of the theory with a horse and judging the exterior of 2 horses

03.00 – 03.15                      Break

03.15 – 05.00                      Practice; judging the exterior of 3 horses

Day 2
08.45 – 09.00 am               Welcome with coffee

09.00 – 10.30                      Theory about skeleton, leg stands, leg defects and movement

10.30 – 10.45                      Break

10.45 – 12.30                      Continuation of the theory

00.30 – 01.30 pm               Lunch

01.30 – 03.00                      Practice; repetition of the theory with a horse and judging 2 horses

03.00 – 03.15                       Break

03.15 – 05.00                      Practice; judging 3 horses

Optional

19.00 – 22.30                       IBOP clinic with a riding and/or a driving test

Day 3
08.45 – 09.00 am               Welcome with coffee

09.00 – 10.30                      Theory about hooves and linear scoring

Breeding values and heredity

(Selection of the best stallion for your breeding mare using the website?)

10.30 – 10.45                      Break

10.45 – 12.30                       Practice; linear scoring of 2  horses

00.30 – 01.30 pm               Lunch

01.30 – 03.00                      Practice; judging 3 horses

03.00 – 03.15                       Break

03.15 – 05.00                      Test judging  Friesian Horses

05.00                                      Distribution of the certificates.

Site 1-Murieta Equestrian Center 7200 Lone Pine Dr, Rancho Murieta, CA 95683

Site 2-Hoosier Horse Park E911 Address – 7105 South Kern Street, Nineveh, IN 46164