Roaring Run Equestrian Center
Natalia Martin
Clinic Date:​
June 20-21, 2026
Natalia Martin has been riding horses since the age of four and training them at the professional level for over 20 years. From the very beginning, the fundamentals of dressage were instilled in all aspects of Natalia's riding career, even though her days as an eventer in Pony Club. As Natalia matured and realized her true potential in the dressage arena, she began to base her training fundamentals around teaching her clients how to work as one with their horses. Natalia has always had a knack for making dressage fun while helping the riders to develop a trusting relationship with their mounts.
Natalia has not forgotten where she came from and loves to work with different breeds, and riders at varying levels of experience and ability. While continuing to bring horses and riders up the levels, she also believes in cross training to aid the horses in keeping a sound mind and body. In doing this, Natalia is able to maintain a challenging and focused environment while encouraging the horses and riders to meet their goals while having fun. She feels the key to a successful partnership is by making sure that you and your equine partner enjoy the process and journey.
Honing in on the rider's strengths and weaknesses allows Natalia to aid her students in becoming a confident, strong, and balanced rider while maintaining a soft, quiet, and effortless appearance.
Natalia believes that Dressage is the foundation for all disciplines and it shouldn't be thought of as a separate discipline until the higher levels, because the lower levels are about building the foundation. If you take the time to build a strong foundation, you and your horse will excel!
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Natalia's Top Credentials:
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International Grand Prix Rider
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Puerto Rican National Judge
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Member of the Puerto Rican Dressage Team
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Represented Puerto Rico and qualified for many international Games
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USDF Bronze, Silver, and Gold Medalist
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Several FEI, USDF, and GAIG wins
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Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from George Mason University
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"There is no partnership like the one between a horse and rider. Dressage is an art that allows you to become one with these amazing creatures. It truly is "The Art of Riding."- Natalia Martin
Patrick Snijder
Patrick Snijders has been riding and competing in Holland and throughout Europe from the age of 5. He started his riding career with Pony High Class Dressage and Jumping, and has been Dutch Champion several times on his way to the National Jumper level in Holland. Patrick was trained by Dutch Olympic Champion Paul Raymachers and has worked and ridden with American world class riders such as Leslie Howard and Molly Ashe.
Clinic Date:
TBD September 2026
Klaus Shengber
Klaus Schengber, hailing from Osnabrück, Germany, has been head trainer at High Point Hanoverians for over 20 years. Klaus spent his youth under the renowned Ulli Kasselmann of P.S.I. Auctions. Which he credits for instilling in him the foundation of proper German dressage training. During the early 1990s he teamed with Angela Barilar to help fulfill a dream of making high quality horses from Germany more accessible to the horse community in the United States. Klaus currently resides in Chestertown, MD with his wife Jessica and son Jake. On his free time he enjoys spending time with his family and painting.
Clinic Date:
TBD 2026
Lauren Sprieser
Clinic Date:
May 23/24, 2026
A student of Lendon Gray in college, Lauren competed three times at the North American Young Rider Championships, earning Team Bronze in 2003, and Team Gold in 2005, placing as high as fifth individually. She was also successful in the U25 ranks, qualifying three horses for the National Championships, including one made completely from scratch, all before her 25th birthday.
With a semester while in college spent working for 3 time Olympic Gold Medalist Monica Theodorescu and her Olympian father Georg, Lauren knew horses were more than just her passion – they were to be her career. Upon graduating from Sarah Lawrence College with studies in Public Policy and Urban Planning, Lauren spent a year as a working student for several exceptional trainers, including Olympic Bronze Medalist Carol Lavell, before setting up her own business in Marshall, Virginia in the fall of 2007.
Lauren currently rides with Olympic Bronze Medalist Allison Brock.
Lauren quickly established herself as a top trainer of riders from green to Grand Prix across several disciplines, with students ranging from local walk-trot champions to CDI Grand Prix. But she also has become well-known for producing FEI horses, as well as helping her students to make their own.
Lauren and her students have produced 9 Grand Prix horses and 17 Prix St. Georges horses, as well as 22 USDF Bronze, 14 Silver and 3 Gold Medalists, many with Distinction.
Dressage4Kids
Clinic Date:
March 28/29 2026
We are Excited to host Maria Lithander through Dressage 4 Kids this spring. Maria will be open to a limited number of adult rides on Friday March 27. Cost will be $175 per lesson.
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Youth will sign up for a clinic spot with Maria directly through Dressage4kids.
All youth must be a TEAM member to ride. Auditors 25 and under are free to attend.
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Dressage4Kids
Clinic Date:
March 28/29 2026
Lendon Gray represented the United States at the Dressage World Championships in 1978, and at the 1991 Dressage World Cup in Paris.[5] In 1980, Gray rode Beppo, a Holsteiner gelding, for the American team at the Alternate Olympics dressage event at Goodwood House, in West Sussex, England.[7][8] In 1988, she competed in dressage on Later On with the United States Equestrian Team in the 1988 Olympics in Seoul.[1][9]
Gray is a United States Dressage Federation instructor and clinician, as well as one of the founders of the non-profit Emerging Dressage Athlete Program for young riders.[10][11][12] She was inducted to the USDF Hall of Fame in 2011.[5][13]
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Emily Wright
Clinic Date:
July 11/12 2026
Emily has many years of experience in classical dressage, starting and bringing up several horses the levels. She started in Pony Club and found her way to classical dressage after she and her horse struggled with crookedness and joint pain. Even though she had a young start to classical dressage, because it was a rocky start, she has a deeper understanding of biomechanics and the importance of proper fitness and muscle balance for both horse and rider.
She teaches classical dressage with kindness and compassion for horse and rider while guiding with diligence toward excellence.
She focuses on proper biomechanics as a foundation to happy and healthy riding using classical principles as taught by masters from the old Spanish Riding School. As a part of proper biomechanics, she specializes in the work in-hand, both according to the Viennese tradition and the Iberian.
Emily has worked with riders of all backgrounds and quite a variety of breeds. She also rides sidesaddle and performs with the garrocha and in other specialties of historical riding. She is certified as a Classical Dressage Trainer by a student of Nuno Oliveira.
In her spare time, she practices martial arts (including HEMA and archery on the ground and horseback, which she intends to teach in the near future) and sings and plays piano, both for fun and professionally. She also works tirelessly to improve her education in nutrition, biomechanics, and history so she can bring the best understanding of dressage to her students as she can. She is a NASM certified personal trainer and is happy to design a fitness regimen for her students. She can be seen showing at various dressage competitions and in dressage demonstrations.
