The articles listed here appeared in a variety of equestrian publications. Enjoy what the press has had to say about my riding adventures over the years.
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ABIC/USDF Region 3 Championships |
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Gigi Nutter Captures Fahrenheit, Then Grand Prix At ABIC/USDF Region 3 Championships
By Sue Smithson
Reprinted
by permission of the Chronicle of the Horse. For subscription
information call 1-800-877-5467. Originally appeared in the November
29, 2002 issue.
 Gigi
Nutter's 12-year old, Hanoverian gelding Fahrenheit slipped out of his
stall and terrorized the show grounds just before his ABIC/USDF Region
3 Grand Prix championship class, Nov. 8-10, in Camden S.C.
"He was running all around, acting like a stallion. He finally ended up
in somebody's tack stall," Nutter said. After that exciting warm-up,
Nutter produced an energetic test to capture their fifth ABIC/USDF
title on her partner of nine years, adding Grand Prix (61.40%) to
previous fourth level, Prix St. Georges, Inter-mediare 1, and
Intermediaire II championships.
"He's
still a work in progress," Nutter said. "He's always playing games and
not that reliable. He was a bit squirrelly on my leg in the test."
Nutter,
a professional trainer from Whitesburg, Ga., bought Fahrenheit
(Wendland x Lenare) as a jumper prospect, but she lost interest in
jumping after giving birth to her first child at age 41.
Nutter
also claimed the reserve championship in the open Prix St. Georges with
Peggy Carspecken's Chronos mare Lestera (67.70%) and coached Adrienne
Rogers, 17, of Newnan, Ga., to the Junior/Young Rider Third level
Championship (70.00%) on her Dutch gelding Milky Way (Columbus x Iris).
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May 2001 Gigi Nutter Clinic |
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By Elizabeth Hunter
July/August 2001 issue of the MADCTA Newsletter
 On May 5th and 6th, 2001, Carol and Randy Alford were gracious enough to host the Gigi Nutter clinic. Gigi was up to her usual: working all participants into aerobic exhaustion. Gigi expects mental and physical toughness from her students - both animal and human.
I asked some of the participants a few weeks after the clinic what they still were using in their riding and what they thought of the clinic in general. These were some of the responses:
First time participant Carol Estes stated: "I am using everything she taught me still today! Before I ride l think- 'Ride your best everyday! ' No more "playing" around for me. What really struck me about Gigi was how she saw me as a student. She instinctually knew how to approach me individually, and the best way to teach me. I felt she really knew me as a person and how to get her point over to me - when to push me and when to be easy. She cleared some concepts up for me that l had been working on. I feel I have a concrete understanding of these concepts - they belong to me!"
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By Chimen Rogers
November/December 2000 issue of Collected Remarks
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September 24th, I boarded an airplane destined for Philadelphia, Pa.
From there, I was to be picked up from the airport by my Mother who
happens to live five miles down the road from Devon in a town called
Paoli. Not being fond of flying, I started out a little nervous. But
then, I thought about Scott, Gigi, and Cassidy hauling a horse all the
way from Whitesburg, Ga. to Devon, Pa. The hour and forty minute flight
did not seem so bad after all.
Once
in the air, I closed my eyes and reflected on the last two and a half
years. When I first came to Gigi for lessons, I could not ask my horse
to canter, and now Bo and I are performing first level movements. Not
only is Gigi skilled in the art of classical dressage, but she has that
magnificent gift of being able to teach it. During some of my lessons,
I have flashbacks to my days in the United States Marine Corps because
she expects only the best out of us. And to be a horse and rider team,
there is a lot of hard work, sweat, and tears that go into progressing
in dressage. And without the horse and his cooperation, dressage would
be virtually impossible.
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