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Horse Trainers In Michigan |
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Name: Vanessa Smith
Address: 2315 E Rattalee Lk Rd, Holly, MI 48442
Website: www.punkhorsetraining.com
Email: punkpony1@gmail.com
Phone: (248) 459-5515
Info: Punk Horse Training offers equestrians the ability to create a working relationship with their horse while developing balanced equitation and experience. Our services include lessons, horse training, problem horse solutions and competition coaching. We offer training and coaching in showmanship, huntseat, jumping, western, reining, trail and all speed events. Punk Horse Training bases all riding techniques on safety and communication between horse and rider. Lessons and coaching are tailored to the skill level of the rider and horse.
Punk Horse Training will come to you! We are primarily based in Holly, MI at Windsong Equestrian Center and in Ortonville, MI at Diamond M Ranch. Punk Horse Training is an assistant coach to the Holly Equestrian JR and SR Team and Shrine Equestrian SR Team. Check out our State Champion jumping round at prohorsetv.com under MIHA 2009 events. |
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Name: Ray Moses - Shine-A-Bit Farm - More Info »
Address: 230 Maxfield Road
Brighton, Michigan 48114
Website: http://www.raymoses.com
E-Mail: ray@raymoses.com
Phone: (248) 889-9753
Info: Ray Moses is a Trainer at Shine-A-Bit Farm in Brighton, Michigan, and has had a life long interest in horses. Growing up on a horse farm gave him exposure to many types of horses. He had an opportunity to meet and work with Chuck Grant (The Father of American Dressage) while Billie Joe Freckles, an Appaloosa stallion belonging to his mother, was at Shine-A-Bit Farm for training in the 1970's.
After graduating from Michigan State University, and attending graduate studies at South Dakota State University, Ray came home to Michigan to pursue a career training horses. Since then, Ray has studied and worked with Mari Monda Zdunic, Chuck Grant's protégé and his successor at Shine-A-Bit Farm. Ray competes nationally in dressage and conducts horsemanship clinics for all equestrian disciplines. Ray has trained horses for exhibitions, competition, and television commercials. Whether a beginning or a accomplished rider, Ray has been able to help his students succeed in almost any types of equestrian activity. During the past 8 years Ray has competed a multitude of horses at national dressage competitions. In 1998 Ray and his horse Shine-A-Bit Tracer won USDF All Breed Awards in Fourth and Intermediare levels of dressage. On May 20th, 2000 Ray and Tracer placed 2nd in the Grand Prix Freestyle and 3rd in the Grand Prix Open. Ray also performs exhibitions at expos, horse shows, and charitable functions. Ray is available for lessons and clinics. Ray accepts students at any level for riding instruction. Ray trains the horse and rider to a higher level of mutual understanding and cooperation. This is done with patience, clarity, and a lifetime of experience in training and riding. |
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Name: Larry Bourke of the Circle B Ranch
Address: 15410 15 Mile Rd. Big Rapids, MI 49307
Website: www.thecircleb.com
Email: bourkefamily@thecircleb.com
Phone: (231) 592-0061
Info: The Circle B Ranch offers the following services: Colt Starting, Retraining the older problem horse, Tuning up the horse that has had time off, and halter breaking weanlings. We are located in central Michigan about an hour north of Grand Rapids. Our facilities include an indoor arena, outdoor arena, plenty of pastures/paddocks, and more than 100 acres of riding trails.
We have more than 10 years experience with starting colts, and that is the largest portion of our business. We have learned many things from many horse people, but our two largest influences have been Buck Brannaman and Ray Hunt. We try to look at situations from the horses point of view and set the horse up to succeed, and then build on that success. To me, colts offer a once in a lifetime opportunity to do things right, and lay a foundation that will shape the rest of their careers.
Currently we start about 30 colts per year, we also conduct a colt starting clinic in the spring as well as offer basic horsemanship clinics upon request. If you're interested in any of the offerings at the Circle B, feel free to give us a call.
The ranch also offers boarding, sales of quality paint/quarter horses, and hereford cattle. |
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Name: Barbra Reis
Address: 490 Rissman Lane,Ortonville, MI 48462
Website: www.capturedmoments.ws/brilliant_reflection
Email: blondmane@yahoo.com
Phone: (248) 670-9031
Info: Barbra (Crossmyer) Reis is the resident trainer and has over 15 years experience in training young horses and teaching novice riders. Barb and her husband Brian own and operate Brilliant Reflection Farm. Brian is a Marine who served as an embassy guard in Moscow, Russia, Helsinki, Finland and Jakarta, Indonesia. His last six years were spent at the White House assigned to the executive flight detachment (Marine One) and Alert Facility at Quantico, VA. He has also worked in the security industry concentrating on executive protection. Brian holds a B.S. in Airport Management from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. He was raised in Nebraska and grew up on a cattle ranch, so he is very familiar with livestock and the maintenance involved in owning a farm.
Barb holds a Bachelor of Science in Equine Studies from Centenary College in New Jersey, as well as a British Horse Society Assistant Instructor certificate. Her resume includes two years at the USEF (formally AHSA) in the membership department maintaining horse recordings and enforcing pony measurements. Barb also worked for Miller Harness Company at their New York City retail store, taught riding at the Claremont Riding Academy in NYC and Overpeck Riding Center in Leonia, NJ under the guidance of Heidi Erickson. She also managed Millbrook Farm, home of the Prants, and groomed for their daughter Sarah and "Kiss Me Not" on the Pony Hunter Circuit on the East Coast. She rode with George Morris, Greg Best and attended clinics with Gunnar Ostergard, Anne Kursinkski, Bert DeNemethy, Peter Leone and Bruce Davidson. She has also competed on the hunter and eventing circuits in Michigan. In 1992 she won the (MCTA/TEAM) Sun Ray Perpetual Trophy for high point professional riding Clever Kid. She has also won the USDF All Breed Award for APHA horses since 1998, placing 1st in the Adult Amateur and Open divisions in Training and First Levels. Her previous mount Brilliant Guise also placed 1st in Second Level. She has also placed in the Performance Horse Registry's Silver Stirrup Awards, Training thru Second Levels with Brilliant Guise and Brilliant Reflection.
Barb has a knack for teaching and training novice horses and riders. Her students excel at shows, always placing in the ribbons with scores above 60% and receiving numerous year end awards. She is extremely patient with young horses, building the foundation for any riding discipline in the future.
Barb showed her APHA/TB gelding, Brilliant Reflection at 1st & 2nd Levels in 2006 and Training &1st Levels with her TB gelding, Brilliant Image. She qualified to attend the Region 2 Championships with Brilliant Reflection in 2005 (Training Level Open) and 2006 (First Level Freestyle). 2007 includes showing Brilliant Reflection, Brilliant Image at 2nd Level at USDF/USEF recognized shows, Brillliant Portrayl at schooling shows in Training Level and attending schooling shows with clients and their horses.
In addition to teaching, training, showing and running a boarding facility, Barb held a position on the Midwest Dressage Association board of directors and was a TEAM board member when it was the Michigan Combined Training Association. She also served as the organizer/event chairperson for the Lisa Wilcox Clinic held April 2006 at the Nancy G. Held Equestrian Center at Albion College.
Training in dressage and hunt seat is available at Brilliant Reflection farm in Ortonville. Barb will also make farm calls. Visit the training page for rates. She also has a service of matching riders to horses. See the sales page for more information. |
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Name: Sara Shalda Performance Horses
Address: Mapel City, Michigan
Website: sarashaldaperformancehorses.com
Email: sarashalda@aol.com
Phone: (231) 334-3991
Info: Draft Horse Training, America's Favorite Books Too. |
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Name: Brandt Clark
Address: 11086 Howard City Edmore rd Lakeview, MI 48850
Website: www.bar23horses.net
Email: Brandt@bar23horses.net
Phone: (989) 506-9643
Info: Specializing in starting horses and correcting vices in mature horeses. With a proper foundation your horse will succeed in any dicipline whether western or english riding. The start a horse receives sets the precedent for his perception of us the remainder of his career. Our primary objective for the first 30 days of your horse's education is to present leadership and safety. Horses are in constant search of leadership. It is a deeply embedded instinct in his nature. He craves the feeling of safety with zero outside pressure. Horse rules and laws are based around partnership and herd instincts. There is nothing NATURAL about human intervention with horses. The beauty of the art of horsemanship is being able to communicate to an animal in his own language...body language. |
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Ray's Horse Training Philosophy
Ray's training philosophy, practices, and principles are from the American School of Dressage, as taught by the late Charles Grant. The American School combines the accuracy of the German system and the philosophy of the French School of working on one resistance at a time, and mainly centered around the concept of jaw flexion, for without the jaw relaxed the back will be stiff and braced, at least with most horses with thoroughbred infusion, this is why Ray says very few Europeans have been successful training American horses.
Other main principles of Ray's training philosophy center around the concepts of separation of the aids, avoidance conditioning, and understanding the horses natural instincts to pressure.
The American School of training has roots in the U.S. Army, from Fort Riley Kansas at the Advanced School of Equitation. At Fort Riley is where James Fillis of France influenced the training of American officers in the early 1900's during his travels to America. This training perpetuated throughout the entire horse army and, therefore, taught to Chuck Grant, founder of Shine-A-Bit Farm where Ray studied for the past nine years.
Ray believes that most of a trainers job is trouble shooting a problem so that you can identify how a training problem was created, On the average it takes at least a month to get to know a horse somewhat and identify the problem, and about 3 months to really begin to re-train the horse so that the horses previous training habits are over-rode. Ray points out that as a trainer most of the time you are fixing horses that are already trained, whereas, it is rare to get an untrained horse from the start from most customers. Re-training takes 10 times as long a training.
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