Jewels has worked with about every breed in her career with horses. She started at a young age with an Appaloosa and was very successful in the show ring with him. They did all divisions together; Western, Jumping, Saddle Seat, English, Dressage, etc. He is the reason Jewels decided to make horses her career. From [...]
Jec A. Ballou’s distinct love of developing equine athletes is fueled by her eclectic background. Raised in a horse training family, she has devoted herself to the most thorough, correct, and straightforward approach to improving performance for horses and riders alike. In addition to being a nationally recognized educator about equine conditioning and gymnastic development, [...]
Lester Buckley grew up in the historic cattle country of North Texas. He earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Equine Science from Sul Ross State University in Texas, where he was also the “Outstanding Horse Science Student”. While training horses during college he met Ray Hunt, renowned horseman and clinician, and that laid the [...]
Frances Carbonnel is devoted to the vision of harmony between human and equine as manifested in art for art’s sake. That art is the pursuit of beauty, harmony, and balance in the relationship that binds horse and human. Her riding is pure, highlighting the presence of cooperation, gentleness, enlightened leadership and willing acquiescence. Frances is [...]
Julie Goodnight grew up on a small horse farm in central Florida (Orlando) and was a youth competitor on the hunter/jumper circuit. She worked on breeding farms and racetracks through college and graduated from the University of New Mexico in 1984. She is a certified CHA Master Instructor and Clinician, currently traveling 40-45 weeks a [...]
Pam started her training career at age 4 with chalk lines on the sidewalk defining stalls and an imaginary string of training horses. In her wildest childhood dreams, she could not have imagined the show string she would grow up to train, nor could she then count high enough to tally her list championships. Pam [...]
Barbara Long found her love of horses as a child in Kentucky in the 1950’s, where she thought the five gaited Saddlebred was the king of horses, but she didn’t begin her riding career until her family moved to Greensboro, NC. There she took lessons from the mother of a member of the USET jumping [...]
The multi-breed show environment in Southern California exposed lifelong equestrian Kathy Knill Meyer to a variety of disciplines. As a youngster, she competed in dressage, stock, hunter, and saddle seat riding, and attended riding schools in England and in Germany.
Anita Owen was born in Stockholm, Sweden and has been involved in dressage and eventing as a rider, coach and judge throughout her life. She was affiliated with Hilltop Farm in Colora, Maryland from 1995 – 2006 Anita’s judging assignments have taken her through the US, Canada, Mexico, Central & South America and Europe. She [...]
A pioneer among women in the equine industry, Lynn Palm Pittion-Rossillon has long had a passion for teaching. In fact, she instructed her first clinic in 1970 – long before any of her contemporaries at the top of today’s clinician market had even considered horsemanship instruction as a viable profession. No other clinician today can [...]
