Certified Students:

 Professionals

Anita Adams: Was my working student for six years at Tempel Farms and learned, on a daily basis, to familiar herself with the finer points of training according to the Spanish Riding School tradition. She trained horses to FEI levels, knows work-in-hand and Air above the Ground movements.

Don Paulhus: For the past eight years Don has been a student of the Spanish Riding School System on a regular basis and established himself as a pillar of Classical Principles in the San Francisco area.

Gigi Nutter: Since 1974 Gigi Nutter has been hosting Karl Mikolka clinics in PA and GA. She teaches with enthusiasm the principles of Classical Horsemanship to her students and until recently joyfully rode any type of horse regardless of the level of difficulties with the goal to create an obedient, easy to ride equine partner. She showed successfully up to FEI levels.

Mary Werning: A loyal student for many years, who invested in improving her equestrian knowledge by visiting on a weekly basis Tempel Farms in Wadsworth, IL where she rode many different stallions of all levels, from Training to Grand Prix.

Bonna McCuiston-Mars: A long time student of mine who trained her horse Loskan to FEI levels and created many lovely riders of all ages who have been successfully showing through FEI levels.

Dixon George: A man whose interest is deeply rooted in the principles of the OLD SCHOOL and who took on a very difficult horse which, after two years of proper training, is an easy to ride - even for a young rider - animal with correct gaits, a balanced temperament and a lovely composition.

 Semi Retired

Stephanie Wagner: I met Stephanie in the seventies when I gave clinics in Issaqua, WA state and she became one of my first student and devoted supporter. I used to call her the Rock of Gibraltar because nothing seemed to be able to upset her. A lovely show rider she impressed judges and audiences on the East Coast but later developed a serious back problem that brought unfortunately an end to her riding. She is still active as a teacher.

 Amateurs

Gael Bourquin: A long time friend of the late Eva Podhajsky Gael had ample opportunity to be exposed to first class riding during her many visits to Austria. A lover of horses and a disciple of Dressage Gael rides at her farm in Elida OH and works with a few selected students.

 Owners

Tracey Weiss: Tracey is a true lover of horses and was a successful jumper before she got interested in dressage some fifteen years ago when she started out with Charles DeKunffy. During the time of my visits to Salem OR in the early nineties, Tracey became one of the most loyal students in all the clinics Connie Micheletti hosted at her place.

With her two horses Kringer and Julio she worked consistently and managed to guide both horses to the FEI levels, for many years without the help of an indoor arena. Today Tracey and her husband Greg are the owners of Coyote Ridge Farm, a private place mainly devoted to the training of Lipizzans, a jewel among the equestrian facilities in the country. Tracey's Lipizzan stallion Maestoso Contessa was purchased in Piber and trained by Tracey to become one of the purest examples of Classical Horsemanship.

 Owners of an Earlier Period

Connie Micheletti: Twice in the early Eighties, Connie and her husband Tony drove from Oregon to Illinois to spend a few weeks at Tempel Farms where Connie took daily lessons on Lipizzan stallions representing different levels of training. She learned to ride the higher- level movements such as piaffe and passage and was the first American woman who jumped a Courbette without any ground support. That is documented on a video.

Connie was the driving force behind my regular clinics in Salem that went on for several years with great success. Today Connie concentrates on breeding Lipizzan horses and struggles to survive the ever- rising costs of such an enterprise.