CLD Learning Day
Colonel Christian Carde Lectures on the French Style
Colonel Christian  Carde of the Cadre Noir, a frequent clinician in the area, spoke on the French Style of riding at StarWest on Saturday, September 16th. About 20 CLD memebers and horse enthusiasts attended the lecture given by the French Olympian.
The former director of the French National School, at Saumur is an FEI I judge and founder of ALLEGE-IDEAL, Col. Carde's international organization for promoting classically correct horses (with superb piaffe/passage transitions). During clinics he often rides each horse and works with them from the ground both in hand and with rider mounted.
Dedicated to the teaching of horsemanship, Colonel Christian Carde's first riding experiences were in the discipline of show jumping and eventing. He spent 40 years in the French Army - 26 years at the Cadre Noir in Saumur, where he became "ecuyer en chef" or head trainer.
He won the French National Dressage Championship in 1979, was on the French Olympic Team for the Moscow Games and also became an FEI dressage judge. He then took a break from Saumur for four years to be the national trainer of the French National Dressage Team, where he coached Margitt Otto Crepin through the World Championships, Olympics and World Cup Finals. In 1999, he judged the world Dressage Challenge, Group 4, in central Europe and the Canadian National Dressage Championships.
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