I have been told by respected professional horse trainers and horse people; I should start my own horse training business for many years. I am excited to have finally reached that goal. :-) Taking my business to the web makes the process even more exciting.

I started training over 15 years ago when I got my first horse. He was free and "dead broke". He was so dead broke he had arthritis in both knees, both hocks and all four fetlocks. He knew every trick in the book to scare and unseat a rider to get back in his stall. When I discovered his barn nickname was Killer... That was when I knew I NEEDED to know how to re-train a horse.

I found dressage by referral and by looking into the background of the three people I was told to emulate: John Lyons, Richard Shrake and Sally Swift.  It took us about 2 years of discovery, trial and error but by then I was hooked on Dressage and the incredible changes it could bring about in a horse's temperament and physical body condition.  

When the other boarders around me saw the changes in my horse... my part time training/teaching career got started.  The professionals around me started telling me "...the horse business needs people like you." That was when I also found Mr. Renier Klimke's videos and books.  I progressed in my reading to include Mr. Alios Podhajski, Erik Herberman and anything else that I could get my hands on from USDF and British Horse Society pertaining to training and dressage.Over the years I have worked with and re-habbed around 20 horses... one horse at a time.

In the past few years I have been answering questions about re-taining horses using dressage on the two Yahoo! discussion groups DiscoveringClassicalDressage and STBInfo.  I have also re-trained and fostered horses for ASAP. I give lessons to help people understand what is dressage and how to re-train and re-hab thier horse. I have even given a couple of clinics at the ASAP Home Farm in DeSoto, WI.  I also work as the Arena Captain at the NI Horse Fest.