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Cindy Young and Laurie Hoopes, leading trainers, instructors and exhibitors, will provide detailed riding and showing instruction at the 2010 Winning Ways Clinic. The traditional clinic will be held on Saturday, March 13 and a new format will be featured on Sunday, March 14 at the Snider Agricultural Arena at Penn State University. The clinic is co-sponsored by Penn State’s Department of Dairy and Animal Science and the Pennsylvania Quarter Horse Association (PQHA).

 The Saturday sessions will feature Cindy’s program for riders of all levels to improve their skills for both Western and English events. Sunday’s clinic will include both Cindy and Laurie with small, intensive group sessions focusing on the horse and rider team.

 Cindy is a successful trainer, exhibitor and instructor. She rode the 2009 Senior Hunter under Saddle World Champion and 2008 Junior Hunter under Saddle Reserve World Champion. Cindy has multiple top five Congress placings and coaches youth in all-around events including showmanship, horsemanship, equitation and hunter under saddle. She and her family operate Young Quarter Horses in Yadkinville, North Carolina.

 Laurie coaches youth and amateurs at Laurie Hoopes Show Horses in Vermillion, Ohio. She is the coach and trainer of multiple Congress and World Show top ten finishers in trail events.

 Saturday’s program will feature demonstrations and explanations of skills for English and Western riders from beginner to advanced levels. Exercises, drills and techniques for showmanship, horsemanship, equitation, western pleasure, and hunter under saddle will be presented. On Sunday Cindy will provide intensive instruction with provide proven tips, exercises and methods to improve horse and rider for hunter under saddle, equitation and horsemanship. Laurie will offer detailed lessons for beginner/intermediate trail and intermediate/advanced trail.

 The Pennsylvania Amateur Quarter Horse Association will sponsor a new and used tack equipment and clothing sale on Saturday during the clinic. Hundreds of quality items from saddles to hats to blankets and boots will be available on Saturday only. Consignments for the tack and clothing sale are welcome. For more information about the tack sale, contact Angie at dudley289@yahoo.com or 717-569-6489.

 The Penn State University horse farm will be open for visitors to see the Quarter Horse herd and sale horses. Clinic participants may visit the farm on Saturday during breaks in the clinic schedule. Tour times will be announced at the clinic.

 The Winning Ways Clinic has maintained a tradition for 24 years of providing detailed information for horse owners and riders of all levels. Practical, do-it-yourself skills will be featured from this year’s talented and successful instructors.

 The fee for the clinic, tack sale and farm tour is $20.00 for Saturday only or $30 for both days before March 5. Late registrations after March 5 and walk-ins are $30.00 per person for Saturday only or $40 for both days. The lesson fee for riders for the Sunday sessions is $100 per session. Demonstration and lesson riders must register with Tammy Clark Eichstadt by March 5.

 Registration forms and additional details are available at www.pqha.org or www.das.psu.edu

 For more information about the clinic, contact pqha@pqha.org, Tammy Eichstadt at 724-866-1800 or tammy.eichstadt@verizon.netor Pat Comerford at 814-863-3657.