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Marion's love of horses started at a very early age and has never
wavered to the present day. Marion has a true understanding of the
nature of the horse, and she passes on her years of experience and
knowledge to her clients through lessons and clinics. |
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Marion was born and raised in West Germany at her parents English
riding school. In additon to learning from her mother who is a
certified English riding instructor, Marion was given the opportunity
to learn from many internationally renowned trainers. From Gunter
Froehlich, who ran the most famous traveling horse theater in
Germany, Marion learned how to drive horses, also Frisien horses.
She has also studied under Linda Tellington Jones and many different
dressage and jumping trainers including Lotar Schenzel who is
well known in the world of gaited horses and endurance riding.
When Western riding became popular, she tried her hand at that
too, working up to German and European championships.
In November 1984, Marion and her family moved to Canada. In 1985
she began training horses, and won a Canadian National Champion
title on a 4 year old stud that was deemed untrainable by a few
other well known trainers. That is when her focus moved from showing
horses to working with troubled horses.
Marion especially remembers and respects Mr. Freddy Knie who rode
high level dressage tests without the use of saddle or bridle.
He was an inspiration for Marion, and she also feels that riding
a horse without the use of saddle and bridle is the ultimate test
of great horsemanship.
Marion has given many demonstrations at horse shows and other
functions in Germany and later in Canada. The demos where always
bareback and without the use of a bridle. Demonstrtating to audiences
of up to ten thousand people, Marion showed sidepassing in walk,
trot and canter, flying lead changes up to every second step,
canter pirouettes, and sliding stops. |
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focus now is to help people comunicate with their own horses and
work through problems which are most often created by owners who
need more understanding of the nature of the horse. Marion emphasizes
that, "Growing up in Germany, I learned a lot about how to
train a horses body, but more importantly, when I moved to North
America, I learned how a horse thinks. It was like finding the
missing and most important piece of the puzzle. My gratitude here
goes to my teachers "Ray Hunt", "Buck Brannaman", "Lee Smith",
"Peter Campbell", "Monte Roberts" and last, but definitely not
least, "Pat Parelli". Marion earned her level 3 in the Parelli
program in the spring of 2000. She was the seventh person
in Canada to make it to that level.
In
recent years, Marion has given clinics in conjunction with Equitana
in Germany, and has presented Frisian Stallions to a group of
Judges who came to Canada to inspect the North American Friesian
horses to be inscribed into the German Frisian studbooks. Impressed
by Marion's presentation of the stallions, the judges recommended
her to the only recognised Frisien training facility in Texas
to do the 50 day stallion training and testing for dressage and
driving. To become an approved Frisian stallion, the horses have
to pass the 50 day testing, similar to other Warmbllood stallions. |
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