Experience in Saddle Seat (Pleasure and Park), Western Pleasure, Barrel Racing, Pleasure Driving, Fine Harness, Combined Driving basics, Halter classes for SB, Morgans, Arabs and Arab Sporthorses, Trail classes, Dressage, Field Hunters, Jumpers, Eventing, backing, training, schooling young/green horses, lounge lining, Retraining ex-racehorses, Balance Seat, Natural Horsemanship including round penning, Fox Hunting, Hunter Trials, Hunter Paces.
El Dustberry Ranch (now Rustic Canyon Ranch)
El Dustberry Ranch (now Rustic Canyon Ranch)
Instructor
Non-profit ranch focusing on Natural Horsemanship. Clients range from children with disabilities to adults that want to learn about proper care and basic horsemanship. I teach small groups, summer camps, home schooled children, clinics, and private one-on-one sessions.
Devon Glen Farm
Groom/General barn help
Devon Glen is privately own and operated by Linda Donovan, the Secretary of the Myopia Hunt and her husband Prof. John Donovan. While there I was lucky enough to assist with checking people in at meets, assisting with organizing hunt club activities, being her and her husband’s groom and riding some of her field hunters.
Myopia Hunt Club Stables
Instructor
Myopia stables runs not only a full service boarding facility but also is home to one of the oldest hunt clubs in the United States. While there, I taught children through adults. Rank beginner through riders capable of doing the 3” division at our hunter trials. I also fox hunted from Jr. Roading, hilltoppers up to the middle field.
Willowbend Farm
Arabian Show Groom
This was an 80 stall open discipline facility. Worked with resident/head trainer, as well as for owner, who bred Polish and Eygptian lines including Fire and Ice and Tammen. Taught balance seat, Western Pleasure, some Western Riding patterns, Saddle Seat, Hunter over Fences, and Equitation.
Arbor Farm
Arbor Farm
Barn Manager and Instructor
15 stall Eventing facility. I started training with a USEA Silver medalist and Young Rider champion, Mary Lester. I then went on to become an instructor for her, taking on/over the more beginner level riders. I would take them through to Training Level, and then advise them to ride with Mary. We stayed at Twisdenwood for a few years then moved to Willowbend due to needing more stalls. I then took on the role of Barn Manager and was giving about 20 lessons a week.
Ipswich Equine Rescue
Ipswich Equine Rescue
Volunteer Coordinator/Resident Instructor
We rescued premarin foals and ex-racehorses. I was in charge of screening applicants, instructing them if need be on proper horse care and basic riding techniques. I taught proper usage of natural aids, and natural horsemanship skills. Focused on the foundation of horsemanship skills and basics of the potential owner’s discipline of choice. We got in a wide variety of horses, from older but green horses, to broken down racehorses. I trained, backed and schooled many of these horses at any given time, as well as general barn work. We also worked with a local program called “Youths at Risk”. The children and teens would come to the barn and learn about horses, farming, riding and grooming basics.
Ro-Lee-Na Farm
General Barn Work
Feeding, turn out, horse care, paddock and ring maintenance. Worked off board for my lease on Champion 3-G English Country Pleasure Saddlebred mare. First learned how to ride Saddle Seat as well as Pleasure driving for Saddlebreds and Arabs.
Linebrook Farm/Sporthorse Workshop
General Barn Work
25 stall dressage/event facility and Selle Francais breeding farm. Feeding, stalls, turn out, ring maintenance, painting and constructing jumps, cleaning tack, horse care.
