Training
Leave your horse with us: $550.00/month
Includes
board and lessons.
We encourage you to learn along with your horse!
Learn to train your own horse: $40.00/ hour/private or $40.00/ 3 hours/group
The large, soft, sandy arena contains a portable round pen.
Barrels, cones, and ground poles provide a varity of parterns for horses to work in and around
A 1/4 mile two-track in the woods is used to introduce horses to trail riding
Property backs to the Waterloo State Park horse trails
Training typically starts with one week of ground school
followed by one week of riding in the round pen and the arena
followed by two weeks of riding in the arena and on the trails
About the trainer
Resume |
The Record Interview |
Ann Arbor News Interview |
Published letter to the
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A
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The Confidence Lesson
From the trainer
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In 1980, shortly after graduating from high school, I enrolled in Devon Technical Institute, a horse management school in Ohio. I took pre-veterinary care, nutrition, and equine genetics classes and further developed my horse training skills. I trained a horse who had a rope attached to his halter just so he could be caught in his stall, using gentle techniques that are very popular today (pictured above). I managed a large thoroughbred race horse farm and in addition, spent a couple of years working on the track galloping and ponying thoroughbred race horses. While I continued to own and train horses, I entered college in 1984. I have an Associates degree in Applied Science. I'm a Licensed Veterinary Technician. Between 1985 and 1995 I worked in small animal practice. I accepted a position in laboratory animal care at the University of Michigan in January 1996. In October 1996 I was hired as the Cancer Center's Animal Core Training Technician. I became certified as a Laboratory Animal Technologist in 1999. I trained laboratory animal personnel from 1996 through 2001 in rodent handling, blood collection, injection, breeding colony management, and surgical techniques. I'm currently a Research Technician and Coordinator for the Center for Integrative Genomics where I continue to train investigators on rodent handling techniques and phenotyping procedures. |
About the training
All types of horses and any riding discipline will benefit from the program.
All types of horses have visited the Equine Charm School with the same basic expectation, to become a calm, safe riding horse. We have a large open arena for schooling as well as over 25 miles of designated horse trails. Horses learn good manners, such as stand still for mounting, don't pull on the bridle, relax the head and neck, don't run back to the barn, and listen to the riders cues. Leave your horse with us or come with your horse for lessons. You and your horse will have great fun riding in a new way that is safe, humane, and positively works to calm and relax any type of riding horse.
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Barrel racing and pole bending instruction is also available |
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My riding experience is comprised of over 35 years of lessons, owning, and training horses of many breeds and disciplines (see resume). I have studied the methods of many trainers along the way (especially in the last few years with the advantage of having Dish Network and RFD-TV). I have a large collection of DVD's, books and attended many training clinics. Trainers I admire include:
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