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Wendy Wergeles
Clinician

BIOGRAPHY

Talisman Farm attends & takes clients regularly for cross country clinics with Wendy Wergeles at  Cottonwood Ranch, Los Alamos California  where she is based with Caliban (SWB/TB), an Intermediate level Event Horse co-owned by Kathleen Giovenco of Middleburg, VA, and Ten (App. QH), a promising 3 year old co-owned by Marianne McRae of Phoenix, AZ.
Wendy Wergeles  has competed throughout the US and Canada through the Advanced level in eventing. Her horse Torque was awarded the 1994 AHSA Zone 10 Advanced Level Reserve Championship in eventing as well as the 1993 Area X lntermediate Championship. Wendy currently trains with Don Sachey at his Raintree Ranch in Goleta, CA, and has ridden with Capt. Mark Phillips, Christine Scarlett, Karen O'Connor, Mike Huber, Jack Le Goff, Jimmy Wofford, Andrew and Paul Popiel, J. Michael Plumb, Richard Meade, Bev Rogers, Gwen Stockebrand, Gerhard Politz, Victor Hugo-Vidal and Anne Kursinski.

As an instructor/trainer/clinician, Wendy has been based at many fine facilities including: Shadowfax (home of the world's smallest cross-country course) and Silk Purse Ranch, both in Las Vegas, NV; Goose Downs ~, Galisteo, NM; Brusally Ranch, Scottsdale, AZ; Hobeau Farm (a thoroughbred training and breeding farm where she also raced quarterhorses), Ocala, FL; Brown Ledge Camp, Mallett's Bay, VT and Pondeverda in Dunham, PQ, Canada where, as a working student, she made the transition from riding hunters and jurnpers with Frank and WayneCarroll at Secor farms in White Plains, NY to eventing. As an instructor, she has had students qualify and compete m the North American Continental Young Rider's Championship and coached the Area X team in 1987, although her motivation is the commitment from her students, regardless of their competitive goals or level of riding ability. She maintains a clinic schedule throughout the western USA.

Wendy has recently received her American Horse Shows Association "r" license as an Eventing judge and has had an AHSA "R" Technical Delegate's license for over ten years.
She has been the organizer of the Las Vegas Horse Trials and the Silk Purse Ranch Horse Trials and been active on the organizing committees of the Goose Downs Farm Horse Trials, The Event at the Downs, Brusally Ranch Horse Trials, Coconino County Horse Trials, Flying Fox Farm Horse Trials,the Quebec Championships and the Eastern Townships Horse Trials and currently founded the Event Derby Series in Southern California.

CLINIC COST

Private one hour:  $50

Private half hour:  $35

Semi-private (2 students) one hour:  $40

Group (3-5 students) one hour:  $35

Stabling cost (per night): $ 20.00 payable to Cottonwood Ranch

Lodging: Skyview Motel (805) 344-3770

Please refer to www.cottonwoodhorse.com to download release forms when attending clinics with Wendy Wergles. Refer to Talisman Farms calendar for schedule of upcoming clinics with Wendy Wergeles.