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Clinicians for 2010
Muffy Seaton
Muffy Seaton from Williston, SC, is a well-known driver, trainer and breeder of driving ponies. She has been an active CDE and Pleasure Driving competitor, judge and clinician for the past 30 years. In addition Muffy has served on ADS & USEF driving committees and was the Mid-Atlantic Regional ADS Representative for three years. She is a Registered USEF and ADS judge in Pleasure, Combined Driving and Driving Dressage. She also is one of very few worldwide to hold the prestigious Light Harness Horse Instructors license given out by the British Driving Society.
Driving her Dartmoor pair of “Fleas”, Muffy has won every major Combined Driving Event in the East and in 1997 was invited to represent the United States at the Royal Windsor Horse Show in England where she placed third overall and was the highest placed American. She has been the USEF National Pony Champion 4 times, first with a four-in-hand and then with her pair. In 2005 she trained and qualified the single pony who won the gold medal at the World Pony Championships in England. She is now training and competing a new large pony, with the Pony World Championship as a goal.
She and her husband, Doug, run a residential driving program from their farm in South Carolina open to any and all drivers and their horses to come and learn more about driving.
As a clinician, Muffy believes a strong bond of confidence has to exist between the driver and the driving horse in order to have a safe and happy turnout. She stresses communication and trust in all her training sessions. She feels that without communication, there can be no trust and therefore no teamwork between driver and horse.
Muffy and Drive On Productions have released a book and a video called “Bending the Driving Horse” that outlines her training methods of producing balanced happy driving horses, as well as the videos “Turnout and Presentation” and “Combined Driving 101”. Her newest video, Navigating 101, helps with questions from would be navigators. Drive On Productions has now just released a new video addressing the basics of harnessing for those new to the sport of driving.
Her website is www.muffyseaton.com where you can keep up with clinic schedules, in house training, and current events.
Clinician Jeff Morse
Since 1974 Jeff Morse has been breeding Morgans and training horses and ponies at Green Meads Farm in Richmond, MA. He is a founding member of the Morgan Sport Horse Association and Morgan Trotting Horse Association. He has served as a Director and VP of the New England Morgan Horse Association. He has also served as President, VP, Director and currently Treasurer of the Massachusetts Morgan Horse Association. He is a Co-Show Committee Chairman of the Massachusetts Morgan Horse Show and was the 2004 American Morgan Horse Association “Man of the Year”. Mr. Morse is the author of AMHA’s “How to Buy a Morgan Horse” and “Teaching Your Horse to Drive”.
In addition to training horses and ponies of all breeds and teaching carriage driving at all levels, Jeff conducts driving clinics throughout the U.S. He is a well known and successful competitor at carriage competitions in the Northease. He is currently Co-Chairman of the AMHA Carriage Committee; Chairman of the American Driving Society Pleasure Driving Committee; and Member of the USEF Pleasure Driving Committee and the USEF Morgan Committee.
Clinician Paul Maye
Paul Maye is a professional Trainer and Coachman, specializing in the Achenback system and the art of carriage driving.
He has won the British Nationals with a single and competed in combined driving with a tandem and four-in-hand in the United Kingdom He has won championships at major shows in the United States including Devon Horse Show in Pennsylvania and Walnut Hill Driving Competition in New York. He drove a team at the Historical Sporting Library Drive in Upperville, VA.
Paul has been a clinician at many equine expos on the East coast. He now resides in Fairfield, VA where he and his wife run the family business 'Mayes Show Ponies'.
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