ROGER CLEVERLY

Roger has worked with many breeds of horses, ponies and minis for over 32 years, in both the UK and USA. In Britain, he competed in hunter jumping, dressage, horse trials, endurance rides, rode as an amateur in National Hunt steeplechase racing, was an amateur exercise rider and assistant trainer at Cree Lodge Racing Stables at Ayr in Scotland, and rode to hounds with the Lanark and Renfrew, and Eglinton Foxhounds.

Since arriving in CA in 1998, Roger has competed in hunter jumping classes, shown ponies in hand and under saddle and has become a skilled whip in carriage driving events. He has formed a formidable partnership with The Davidson Dales Stud’s Dales Pony stallion, Colliery Alick, winning many classes in Pleasure Driving and Combined Driving (the driven equivalent of eventing).

His specialties are coaching hunter jumpers, reschooling ex-racetrack Thoroughbreds for second careers; training horses, ponies and minis for driving, and training pleasure and competitive drivers. Roger is a registered trainer with the Pacific Coast Horse Shows Association (PCHSA) and the NorCal Hunter Jumpers Association. He is also a member of the American Driving Society (ADS) and the Northern California Driving club (NCDC). He is the driving trainer for Davidson Dales Stud, from Clayton, CA. Roger also has English saddle and driving clients at Kutchera Ranch in Brentwood, offers jumping training at Triple J Ranch in Oakley and driving at Rancho Cerro in Livermore.

Roger owns a 16 year old retired racing Thoroughbred, Charlie’s Coup (Charlie) and a 6 year old driving mini, Boots Scootin’ Boogie (Boots). In 2008, he acquired a Dales x Welsh Cob pony gelding, Davidsons Mercury Rising (Freddie), by Kelly Davidson’s Dales Pony stallion, Colliery Alick out of her Welsh Cob mare, Clanfair Chanel. Roger has trained both parents to drive. Alick has won multiple classes at Training and Preliminary Level in Combined Driving, and Chanel won her first driving class at the West Coast Connemara Show at Brookside, CA in September 2007 with Bev. Minor taking the reins. Young Freddie looks like a Welsh Cob but moves like a Dales Pony. If he has inherited driving ability, expect to see him at Driving Trials in 2010.

Roger is an enthusiastic promoter of British Mountain and Moorland pony breeds. When North America was accepted as a Region (NPS America) of the National Pony Society (UK), Roger volunteered to join the management team, and currently serves as Treasurer. He is also a member of the Dales Pony Society (UK) and the Dales Pony Society of America (DPSA).

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Liz started riding and caring for horses when she was four years old. She has received structured training in Western and English riding and well as the disciplines of Dressage and Reining. She has been in the 4H Horse Program for two years and has also had instruction in how to start colts. Liz worked alongside an Equine Vet, Dr. Lawb, for one year to better understand how to care for horses.

Liz has a great deal of experience in exercising and caring for horses. At Al Anderson Training Stables and Superior Quarter Horses, both in Lockeford, CA, she prepared the horses for shows and looked after the horses that were in training but not yet being shown.

She has practical experience with problem horses, having rescued several horses that had been abused and were untouchable. Liz gentled them and made them trusting so that they were suitable to be ridden.

She trained her own horse and in her first year of competition won the State of California CSHA Trail Trials in her class. She also placed first in Region Five.

Liz has been working as a Senior Instructor at Castle Rock Arabians in Walnut Creek for a year, giving lessons to children and adults, and in December 2007, joined Roger Cleverly: Equestrian Training as an Assistant Trainer.

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Personal Accomplishments

First Place, CSHA Region 5 Trail Trials championships, 2007.

First Place, CSHA Region 5 Trail Trials championships, 2008

First Place, CSHA State of California Trail Trials, 2007.

First place, CSHA State of California Trail Trials championships, 2008

Competed at the Cow Palace, San Francisco, as part of the Color Guard and placed second.