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By Lynndee Kemmet for DressageDaily.com

When a group of young riders were given the opportunity to ask four of the world’s best riders for advice, it became very clear that what they want is to keep riding past the age when mom and dad will foot the bill.

At the recent Fourth Annual Wellington Junior/Young Rider clinic featuring Edward Gal, Steffen Peters, Volker Brommann and George Williams, young riders were given ample time to ask questions of the four clinicians. The first day, they seemed so intimidated by the famous riders before them that they hardly opened their mouths, which led the clinicians to begin asking them questions in order to start a dialogue. The only topic really initiated by the young riders dealt with questions regarding qualifications for young rider competitions.

But by the second day of the clinic, held March 10-11 at both Two Swans Farm and Bass Pond Farm, the youngsters discovered these celebrity riders were human after all and began firing off questions. And what did the young riders really want to know from this group of successful competitors? How to find a sponsor.