Posted: August 22, 2006

Announcing Catherine Haddad Clinic Series In North America

Catherine Haddad, reserve rider for the 2006 World Equestrian Games, will be doing a series of clinics during the month of September in North America.

Catherine is an American dressage rider who lives and works in Vechta, Germany. The USDF Region II Grand Prix Champion from 1997, she now represents the USA in competitions throughout Germany and Europe at both the national and international levels, where she has achieved numerous results from materials level through the Grand Prix. With her current top mount, Maximus JSS, the following international results earned Haddad a nomination to the Shortlist for the World Equestrian Games in Aachen 2006:

5th in Grand Prix Freestyle, Hagen CDI***, April 2006.
3rd in Grand Prix Special, Hansbeke CDI***, May 2006.
3rd in Grand Prix, Munich CDI ***, May 2006.
3rd in Grand Prix Freestyle, Munich CDI***, May 2006.
7th in Grand Prix Special, Wiesbaden CDI***, June 2006.
4th in Grand Prix Freestyle, Rotterdam CDI***, June 2006.
And most recently
5th in Grand Prix, Verden CDI***, August 2006
2nd in Grand Prix Special, Verden CDI***, August 2006

Haddad moved to Germany in 1993 to train with the world renowned Willi Schultheis. After his untimely death in 1995, she established her own training stable in Vechta where she trains and teaches between commitments in her busy competition schedule. After receiving sponsorship from the Janet S. Schneider Trust in 2002, Haddad trains her top horses under the supervision of Rudolf Zeilinger, former coach of the 1996 Olympian, Michelle Gibson. Zeilinger is a protégé of the late Willi Schultheis. Haddad contributes her advanced technical knowledge of dressage to the systematic training she has received in the Schultheis School over a period of 14 years. She has also earned a B.A. in International Relations with Honors from the James Madison College at Michigan State University and a B.H.S.A.I. certificate of teaching from the British Horse Society in Great Britain.

For more information on the opportunity to ride in or audit a clinic with Catherine, please contact the organizer in your nearest area.

• September 8-9, Wyoming, ONT, Canada
  Alpha Farms High Point Hanoverians
  Contact: Shirley Moraal: smoraal@xcelco.on.ca
• September 10-11, Chestertown, MD
  High Point Hanoverians
  Contact: Eiren Crawford (484) 716-7261
  ay_ren@hotmail.com
• September 15-20, Montrose, CO
  Reitstall am Zederntal
  Contact: Dr. Susan Schneider (970) 209-1744
• September 23-24, Conroe, TX
  Tex-Over Farms
  Contact: Cat Smith (979) 799-7200
  msucanook@yahoo.com