Karen M. Licciardi

 

 

Karen M Licciardi, USDF "L" judge and Bronze Medallist is pleased to announce that she is training and riding for Dancing Horses Farm of Ocala. In addition she is available for judging, training, clinics and showing.

Karen has been training and showing many different breeds in dressage from Conamara ponies, Arabians, American Saddlebreds, Hotbeds and of course Warmbloods. "I ride with my mind, the true classical way of dressage." "My goal is to always make my horse happy with constant positive communication, lots of patience and rewards.". "I am a Zen rider and always better the mind of my horses as well as their physical body". "Horses are not machines, they are living creatures with feelings and emotions and must be treated with respect and kindness"

Born and raised in Eagle River, Wisconsin, Karen's family owned and operated Kar-A-Mar Stables, an Arabian breeding and training farm. In the 17 years that Karen was home she experienced many different disciplines for horsemanship including eventing, show jumping and Dressage. In addition she operated a small business, purchasing hotbeds from the sales or off the track. She broke them or retrained them for resale. Karen is a natural and truly learned how to communicate with the horses.

After moving to Florida in 1989, she furthered her Dressage training with Gunter Ostergarde and retired Captain of the Belgium Olympic team, Jos Sevrins. Karen's stallion De Mohamed Ali and mare FullMoon Amtares put her on the map with several National and Regional awards, from the Arabian and open Dressage circuits, including Horse of the Year. Added to her credits when she received two perfect "10"'s in dressage from two different U.S.A. Equestrian judges.

Karen is currently working on obtaining her small "r" judges license from the United States Dressage Federation. Karen can be emailed at karen@dancinghorsesfarm.com or call 352-873-7084.