ICP

Instructor Certification Program (ICP)

JIM GRAHAM BIO

In 1992, after narrowly missing the squad of USET horses that went to Barcelona, Jim
re-grouped and with "Easter Parade", known as "Rosie" by his fans, Jim was then
sponsored by Centel. This allowed them to move to England and train full time with Mark
Phillips. This enabled this combination to be more competitive at the CCI**** level.
While competing in England at numerous advanced horse trials and the Burghley
CCI****, they were named to the Team to ride at the Hague. While "Rosie" and Jim had
the ride of their career together there, Rosie was retired from the competition at the final
trot up due to a pulled muscle.

Jim is not only known for his riding ability, but is also a very sought-after clinician as he
conducts clinics on a regular basis throughout the USA. Jim has an ability to teach the
horse and rider with his time-tested approach and theory that is, according to many of
his students, "amazing". Many of the riders he sees in clinics come back to Jim time and
time again.

Jim has coached Young Rider's teams for areas II, III, and IV. In 1999, Jim coached the
Area IV NAYRC CCI* Team to Gold in Wadsworth, Ill. Also, a combined team of Jim's Area
IV CCI** riders (along with Area VI), won the NAYRC CCI** Gold Medal. Numerous other
students have gone on to the Advanced level. Most recently one of Jim's local students,
Debbie Crowley, won the 2003 Radnor CCI**. In the spring '05 Jim had two students in
his barn competing at the CCI** and CCI*** levels at Foxhall.

Even with the hectic schedule of conducting clinics, as well as judging and officiating Jim
still finds time to provide consistent training to his full-time staff and horses in training. “I
really enjoy making horses. It is very rewarding when a horse learns or really confirms a
lesson!” The same is true for each student, whether they are full time or at a clinic.

ROBIN WALKER BIO

Robin & Connie Walker train and compete many Loughnatousa horses out of their Maute
House Farm in Grass Lake, MI. Robin is the only USEA Level 3 Certified Instructor in MI
and is a member of the ICP teaching faculty.

Robin grew up in England where her rode at the Advanced level before moving to the US
in the early 90’s. He and his wife settled in Michigan where they run their own farm and
have a breeding operation as well as training event horses and jumpers. Robin has
competed up through the three star level and has also shown Grand Prix jumping horses.
He has been involved with the ICP program since 2003.

Instructor Certification Program (ICP)

The USEA Instructor Certification Program (ICP) are planning 2 workshops in Area V this
fall. There will be a dressage workshop in the Dallas area at Quail Run Farm on Nov. 4th
through 6th. On Nov. 9th through 11th the Jumping workshop will be held at Pine Hill.
Candidates for certification must attend one of each of these seminars before being
assessed for certification (to be scheduled at a later date—early 2009). These
workshops are also open for auditing. In light of the safety issues that have come to the
forefront this year USEA and USEF are strongly recommending that instructors become
certified and become knowledgeable about teaching their riders to ride safely on cross
country. This is an awesome opportunity for those of you that are instructors to get
involved with the program. It is also a great way for riders to become better informed
about riding safely.

GHCTA is aware that these workshops are not put on without some major expenses and
that instructors are often intimidated by the cost involved with participating. Our board
would like to encourage as much participation as possible by offering some wonderful
incentive rebates for our members. We feel that having good, safety minded instructors
will help all of our membership to improve as riders and competitors.

For instructor candidates that participate in these workshops and the final assessment
the GHCTA will offer the following rebates:

Members in good standing for 2 or more years: $200 rebate for each workshop
and $250 rebate for the final assessment

Members in good standing for less than 2 years: $100 rebate for each workshop
and $150 rebate for the final assessment

Auditors that are current GHCTA members - GHCTA will pay your auditing fee for
each day that you participate. This is a $50/day value!!!

If you are interested in participating as a candidate instructor you must contact the
USEA (www.useventing.com) and click on ICP for contact info and Cheryl Olivier from the
North Texas Eventing Association (www.nteventing.org) about either of the Area V
workshops.

If you are interested in auditing at Pine Hill let Ruth know at pinehilltexas@sbcglobal.net.

If you are interested in auditing at Quail Run contact Cheryl Olivier either through
www.nteventing.org or lazydogranchtx@yahoo.com.

If you are interested in being a demo riding for the jumping seminar let Ruth know at
pinehilltexas@sbcglobal.net.

We hope you all will consider participating in some way - this is a great opportunity for
our membership.