Mariette van den Berg B.(Hons), MSc. (Equine nutrition)
Dressage Rider and Coach
Since the age of 12 Mariette van den Berg has been passionate about horse riding and dressage. She started horse riding at the riding school “Manege de Veenhoeve” in the north of the Netherlands. After practicing a year on school master ponies Mariette traded the riding school for a private stable where she trained and competed ponies and horses in dressage as well as show jumping and eventing at national level.
Throughout the animal science studies Mariette continued with training horses. Besides owning a beautiful black Oldenburger Warmblood that she competed at high level dressage nationally, Mariette trained a number of other horses for private sport horse stables and breeding studs in Europe. In The Netherlands she also prepared various young horses and foals for the Royal Dutch Sport Horse classifications and auction sales. In addition, to all the training work Mariette assisted at a veterinarian clinic specialised in equine reproduction and embryo transplantation to develop more experience in horse breeding.
Mariette is fascinated about the origin of dressage and after reading more literature from classical masters she became more and more interested in practicing dressage according the classical principles. In 2008 Mariette started her classical dressage and instruction training at the Classical Breeding and Training Centre Moravita in the Netherlands. At Moravita she had the opportunity to ride various schoolmaster Lipizzaner and Fredriksborger stallions. Mariette is very passionate about classical dressage principles and integrates it with balanced/centered riding techniques into her modern dressage training and coaching.
In 2009 she moved to Australia and founded MB Equine Services that offers dressage coaching & training and specialised equine nutrition and regenerative horse property design and pasture management consulting services. Mariette is an EA NCAS (L1 Dressage) registered coach. For more information about dressage training and lessons contact Mariette and to read more about her other services click here
