Anyone know how to find her clinic schedules?
She has often done a late April one at Wingreen in VA, and done several at Full gallop Farm in Aiken. If you donāt find a master schedule you might check w those farms, but of course everything is up in the air right nowā¦
The one at Wingreen is usually the week before the Kentucky 3-Day. I usually get multiple emails about it, but I have not seen any this year.
I was supposed to clinic with her in Paso Robles this past weekend. Unfortunately it got cancelled - and they may for the foreseeable future 
There is what appears to be a complete listing on her Lucinda Green MBE - Events page on FB. The first Clinic entry is for June 5th but is a little confusing as itās headline is Millbrook, NY but the location is Millis, MA. The majority of entries are TBC - To Be Confirmed.
I have nothing to add to this, but I couldnāt resist commenting.
I had this computer gameā¦ Equestriad 2001 or something like that and I always chose Lucinda Green as my player.
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Hahah me too!! Such a great game Ć°ÅøĀ¤Ā£
I loved it so much! I need to buy an old computer so I can relive my childhood.
I KNOW! Ah, Equestriad, how I pine for youā¦Ć°ÅøĖĀ„
My daughter and I used to take turns playing; became quite accomplished at all the venues (and I always felt like doing all that āvirtual jumpingāĀ helped tune my eye), but in our version, Lucindaās wonderful commentary was glitchy Ć°ÅøĖĀ
She has tried to find a different version off and on for years without success. Damn and drat.
Lucinda clinics are on hold I think, at least for the foreseeable future.
I attended two at Wingreen about 10-12 years ago (at N then P), and got a lot out of the experience. Sheās a hoot!
The UK is on total lockdown for the foreseeable, no travelā¦ Sadly, Iām beginning to think the whole season might be lost
Thank you everyone!! I will make note of this information! Our barn has several young ladies who want to event and I want them to start with the BEST!! When things get up and running again hopefully we will travel to ride with her!!
My advice is to do a search on here for feedback on her teaching principles.
Not all would agree with your above assessment of her.
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Well, to your above point JER, I will suggest to the OP that if these young ladies are ābeginning to eventāĀ, they should have solid basics over fences (and on the flat) before riding with Lucinda.
They should have strong!, balanced positions, good core and leg strength, and independent hands.
Lucinda works a LOT on balance, straightness, and accuracy - with the emphasis on allowing the horse to āfigure out the footworkāĀ while the rider stays out of the way but remains in the middle. No related distances or perch and pose; if the rider is weak, lacks a solid base of support or tends to jump ahead, that will need to be addressed (and fixed) before riding in one of her clinics.
One of her Mantras is ELBOW: āengine, line, balance, or you go OWāĀ, and her exercises are set up so as to encourage and troubleshoot this. Lots of skinnies. Her clinics are helpful to prepared riders (and horses), and if the girls arenāt ready for the questions asked they may come away with a āless than satisfactoryāĀ experience.
So just a heads up 
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I agree with Dr Doolittle.
I really enjoyed riding with Lucinda, but at the time, I was young, strong, fearless, competing fairly successfully, and had a very good horse. I donāt think that a horse or rider who was not well prepared would have much fun at her clinics.
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Not my experience at all.
In fact, I asked during the clinic how she expected a horse to stay straight or a rider to keep the horse straight through some of her exercises.
Her answer: āWhen. Are they EVER. Straight?ā
Soā¦ there you go.
That was a bit of a light bulb moment for me. It explained her riding and her oft-repeated statement that she canāt see a stride. Guess what? If your horse isnāt straight, you canāt see a stride. And it also explained why she always seemed rather frantic on XC. If youād read her (excellent) write-ups in Horse & Hound about when she goes to ride other horses, the Michael Jung episode was quite revealing.
Thereās a lot to like about Lucinda Green. I really liked her personally on the various times Iāve met her and I love her enthusiasm and insights into the sport. But I found that her training values are just too incompatible with my own. I would never have brought a horse to her clinic if Iād known ahead of time.
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I sent you a message. Iām the organizer for the Lexington, Kentucky Clinic.
Iāve ridden with Lucinda before and totally loved her. I was in the most advanced group of the day and she booted several folks back to the lower level classes until there was just two of us. She really put us through our paces and she was not a huge fan of my horse, to begin with. We kept at it and I have to say one of my life highlights was having her give me a huge hug in the pouring rain after an incredibly difficult cross country day and say, ā I am so incredibly chuffed by you two and how you rode and improved this weekend!āĀ She is definitely tough, and she is a different style, but I thought she was terrific. She really teaches to ride on feel and with a ton of accuracy. We have a bunch of āLucinda skinniesāĀ my husband made for me. I find her advice on bits and tack extremely helpful. She also told me I needed to get myself a hotter TB or TB cross to suit my riding and she was totally right. I added one to my string and he and I are very well matched. So, I guess I can see why some wouldnāt like her but I would drive hours to go again. From my standpoint, sheās a complete treasure.
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Thank you to everyone who responded! Very much appreciated!
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This was the best horse game EVER!! I still have it. Even though my new computer doesnāt even had a CD slot anymore :lol:
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I had a experience very much like your own, except I felt like I did not get much out of it. She was also not a fan of my horse, but he completed every exercise without fail, like a school master. We where in the top group too. She did not kick anyone out of group, but she was not a fan of my horse. That is until she asked to get on him to get over to her next lesson across the field that she was late for. When she handed back the reins, she had a totally different view of him and very much liked the feeling he gave.
She also told me I needed a hotter TB (the one I was riding was a TB that I had trained off the track) and at the time I was still in college getting an engineering degree, and he was one that could sit for a week and you come back and it be the same horse. He was perfect for me at that time, and still is, but i have added another green bean to my string. The green bean is turning out the same as the other one, so time will tell if he is actually āhotterā or not.
But to be honest, I donāt think we got much out of the clinic, but I would audit again, not sure I will ride with her again though.
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