O'Connor Eventing Camp - Photo Gallery

Here are a few pictures from our time at the 2010 O'Connor Eventing Camp.

Max Corcoran's dog Boston likes dressage

O'Connor Event Team rig

David O'Connor explains the exercise

Practicing on fellow campers

Then, on your horse

Brew O'Connor

Dressage lesson with Karen O'Connor

O'Connor Eventing Camp 4 - ECOGOLD Saddle pad Technology

Ecogold president, textile engineer John Da Silva, Karen O'Connor and Max Corcoran, O'Connor Event Team Head Groom explain the technology behind ECOGOLD Secure saddle pads and how they help make the sport of eventing safer.

O'Connor Eventing Camp - ECOGOLD Saddle pad Technology

O'Connor Eventing Camp 3 - XC Boots

O'Connor Eventing Camp - Presentation and discussion about the important aspects of Cross-country Boots with ECOGOLD president and textile engineer John Da Silva, Olympian Karen O'Connor and O'Connor Event Team Head Groom Max Corcoran.

O'Connor Eventing Camp 3 - XC BOOTS

O'Connor Eventing Camp - Karen O'Connor introduces ECOGOLD

The O'Connor Event Team invited us to their eventing camp in Lexington, VA. Karen O'Connor introduces ECOGOLD and talks about the importance of having experts from outside the equine industry come in and bring new technologies to develop innovative products to benefit horses.

O'Connor Eventing Camp 2 - Karen O'Connor introduces ECOGOLD

O'Connor Eventing Camp 1 - Natural Horsemanship

Yesterday, we were at the 2010 O’Connor Eventing Camp in Lexington, VA. The O’Connor Eventing Team hold a few camps annually, in different locations around the USA. Karen O’Connor and David O’Connor often team up with another instructor, and for this camp, it was top event rider Cathy Wieschhoff. There are about 20 participants, from children on ponies to adults (there’s a rider competing at the CCI1* level).

We expected to see a dressage lesson at the beginning of the camp. Instead, the O’Connor camp starts with a full morning of theory and natural horsemanship lessons. In addition to being a fabulous way to get riders to bond with their horses, they teach the horse to listen to the rider, which results in the horse being more attentive and respond to a gentler aid.

Enjoy the video!

O'Connor Eventing Camp 1 - Natural Horsemanship Techniques