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Visit the YouTube channels for CADI and Freestyle, and the Bear Spot Foundation! Saddle Mattress will donate $30 directly to the Bear Spot Foundation for Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy for each purchase of a Saddle Mattress from their website using the code "BSF" (plus FREE S/H!) From "The Boston Globe": "Sorrows Unsaddled: At Concord’s Bear Spot Farm, Jane Karol and her horses guide students through dressage, patients through therapy." Read more... Plan on joining us for 2010's CADI and Freestyle...Serious Fun! Learn more on the CADI and Freestyle websites, and . Bear Spot Freestyle is part of the SIGNATURE DRESSAGE SERIES alliance. Horses are so often nutritive to those humans who
seek out their company. The work of my foundation honors and draws on the
seemingly mystical nourishing quality of the horse. This nourishing
quality allows bonds to grow between people of diverse backgrounds,
serves as a balm for the disquieted soul, and somehow allows even
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The Children of the Americas Dressage InvitationalCADI now has its own website! Please visit BearSpotCADI.com for information, forms, photo gallery, competitors updates, and more. We are very grateful to our CADI 2008 Business Sponsors. Please be sure to visit their websites for more information about their products.  
 
 Congratulations, Julia!
Julia McIntyre, representing the United States, was the overall champion at the first Children of the Americas Dressage Invitational!! Jane Karol’s Bear Spot Farm in Concord, MA, was host to the invitational competition, the first of its kind in the United States, and host to 12 countries, including Mexico, Honduras, Jamaica, Peru, Bermuda, United States, Ecuador and others. 
After two days of showing, the scores for the FEI Children’s Test and the Musical Freestyle ride were combined, and Julia edged out her closest competitor, Dominique Rivas from Mexico. With an average score of 70.23% from the two days of competition, Julia, riding Jeannette Cole’s horse WS Wandersmann, was the overall winner for the weekend. Julia trains at East Hill Farm in Plainfield, NH. [Thanks to Kathie Moulton of East Hill Farm!] Join Us in 2008 We are honored to have Kathy Connelly (R) and Merrilyn Griffith (r) as our judges this year. Download the 2008 competitor
forms: available on our new website! Donate to Support the 2008 Children of the Americas Dressage InvitationalNew for 2008: a percentage of this year's donations will be set aside to enable one eligible competitor to attend CADI 2008 free of charge. Contact us for more information! Competitors...Send us news! View CADI 2007 videos at DressageClinic.com, or read 2007 CADI Results in Adobe PDF format. CADI 2007On October 5 and 6, 2007, the days leading up to our Freestyle 2007, Bear Spot Foundation hosted The Children of the Americas Dressage Invitational. Children from South America and the Caribbean, along with children from the United States, were invited to compete. This was a USDF- and USEF-recognized show. From Dr. Harald Muller, FEI Executive Director, Development & Sports: From one of our riders: A Multi-faceted OpportunityThe children who qualified came to Bear Spot Farm for training from October 3-4. Several dressage trainers and riders volunteered their time and talents to make this an educational, as well as a social and competitive, event. A child rider is between the ages of 12 and 14 and rode the FEI Children’s Dressage Test. Children from the United States qualified for this event by scoring a 58% or better at Training or First Level at a USEF recognized show. A dressage score of 35 or better qualified a child Event rider at a USEA recognized show. The planning and implementation of the South American/Caribbean Team's qualification and travel was being handled by Maggie Batievsky-Fleishmann, General Secretary and Dressage and Development Commission, NF Peru. This event should receive Federal Equestrian International (FEI) status by 2009. We were honored by the enormous support given us by all our sponsors. Thank you so much for helping make the Children's Dressage Invitational 2007 such an overwhelming success!
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