Infinity Farm offers camps during the summer and school vacations. An average day includes riding 2 times a day, lunch, horse care and a craft or event. Price is according to; if you bring your own horse OR we provide a horse. We ride both English and Western and is open to almost any age. We also now provide "babysitting service" for adults that have children and want to ride. (call to reserve your babysitter) People are always welcome to come and audit.
- Saturday, August 7th Infinity Farm Barn dance (more details to come soon)
- Thursday, August 12th, MeCTA Infinity Farm 2-Phase at Piscataquis Valley Fair Grounds
- Sunday, September 19th, Infinity Farm Frost on the Pumpking 2-Phase
- Sunday, November 14th, Infinity Farm Christmas Party from 1 to 4 pm.
Program Overview
Dressage 101 - "Exploring Dressage"
This is an unmounted class that serves as a supplement to your regular weekly lesson with Gail. While this is more of a classroom type
setting it will be very interactive using lots of multi-media and taught using a hands on approach. All the things you learn here will make it easier for you to communicate with your instructor during your mounted lessons and allow you time to ask questions and get explanation without drawing from your riding time. Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to better your knowledge as well as your ability. Students will find the skills they learn here a valuable tool as their riding progresses thru the levels.
Some of the skills the student will attain are:
- understand the scoring system and learn how to score tests.
- learn how to scribe for a judge and understand how to read the scorers symbols (this will provide useful when reading the students own tests at
the shows)
- explore the USDF/USEA dressage tests in depth with the help of an amazing new DVD we have. Learn the test from the judgeÂ's point of view
and understand exactly what the judges look for.
- understand the dressage training pyramid
- familiarize the student with the USEA and USDF rulebooks, i.e. equipment rules, the whip rule, etc.
- understand dressage/training terminology
- learn how to correctly set up the large and small dressage arenas (weÂ'll actually set up the rings during one of our spring classes)
- periodically we will have guest speakers such as Judy Westlake and Carol Poulin-Taylor
- achieve greater understanding of the movements as they apply to the different levels, as well as the requirements of the levels and expectations of the training.
- gain understanding of why certain movements are introduced in the different levels and tests and also why movements and transitions are
place in certain places throughout the tests.
- occasionally there will be special mounted classes to explore some of the things we are learning and have in-depth discussion without taking
up lesson time.
We hope that the students will take advantage of this new program we are offering at Infinity Farm. As instructors we are very excited to be able
to offer this new class to you and feel that it will drive all of the participants up the levels of learning dressage with greater effectiveness.
Cost: $40 for first session of four classes to be paid at the first class. This class is designed for the dressage rider of any level and the youth group is suggested for but not limited to students ages 12 and over.
Dressage 101 youth group meets the second and fourth Sunday of the month from 3:00-5:00 beginning February 24th. This will change to a weekday after school is out or the class may decide to meet different days during school vacations or when showing starts. Dressage 101 Adult group meeting time will be determined by the group. We are only taking 10 participants for each group. Participants should come prepared with a 1"
3-ring binder and pencils. To sign-up please contact Gail or download the Dressage 101 infor page and sign-up sheet from the forms page of our website.
Horse In-Hand: More info contact Gail
Sarah Hanscome will be starting a new unmouted group for people wishing to better their understanding of handling the horse in-hand and working on ground manners. Anyone interested in this contact Gail to get more info about in hand horse.
Training Trainers: more info contact Gail
This program will meet on Tuesdays from 10-2. We will offer a summer session as well. In this class we will go over basic manners, longing,
long lining, starting horses over fences, Trailering, working in the round pen, join up, equipment, etc. The fee for this program will be $15 per day. Please see Gail for more info or to sign up for this class. There will also be a day long clinic March 30th. Fee for the day is 55 including lunch. This program is strongly recommended for anybody who is bring along their own horse or wants to get into developing a training project.
Instructor Program: more info contact Gail
This program is designed to help the students learn the A B C's of instruction. We will cover safety, equipment, communicating with the
students in various ways, how different individuals learn, developing goals, lesson programs, etc. This program will meet the third Sunday of
the month at noon. Cost is $20 per day. We will also offer summer sessions for this program.
Drill Team: more info contact Gail
Drill team will regularly meet on the second and fourth Sunday of the month from 1-3. If we become a large group we may split the sessions and will discuss that at the meeting. Cost is $10 on your own horse of $15 on a school horse. This will be an on farm Drill team only. We will not be traveling like we have in years past. We will hold a Drill Team open house at some point so kids can show off their moves!
Clinics:
Interest seems to have dwindled as far as the camps are concerned. We are going to re-develop the programs we offer to be more of a clinic
style to suit our riders. Look for these programs during school vacations and summer break. We will be offering eventing clinics, two-phases clinics and dressage clinics in the future.
On-Going Weekly Events:
Adult Classes:
Adult Nite on Thursdays with 2 sessions: 6:30 pm and 7:30 pm
Adult Saturday Riding Lessons where adults can ride in a group at 10 AM.
There is still some room on Saturday. Call or email for details or openings.
Please call ahead, so not to overload the classes in the arena.
Please arrive at least a 1/2 hour early to prepare you horse and tack.
Instructor is Trainer Gail McCormack.
If your group, class, scouts, family would like a day of fun, call 207.564.7046 for more information or email gail@InfinityFarm.US
