Students

Lynne began rid­ing with Kristin in the spring of 2011 while search­ing for a new event­ing part­ner. With Kristin’s endorse­ment, she pur­chased a beau­ti­ful warm blood mare named Mimi. Crazy about horses since she was 12 years old, Lynne has been event­ing for over 10 years. She spent the last 3 years at the train­ing level with her recently retired pre­lim­i­nary horse, Zest. She is excited to con­tinue her pur­suit to the next level with Mimi.

Lynne loves the pos­i­tive energy, con­stant activ­ity, train­ing and friend­ships she has at Ever­breeze Farm….and, of course, the won­der­ful 180 acre Christie Hoff­man Park across the street!

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New to the horse world, Car­rie began rid­ing in 2002 when she moved to the United States and found two very lov­able and very anx­ious to please off-the-track thor­ough­breds to begin her rid­ing “career”. Car­rie and her boys began work­ing with Kristin in the fall of 2008 and have come a long way in a short period time. In 2009, Car­rie and Out ‘N About aka “Cooper” (pic­tured above left) com­peted in their first Begin­ner Novice events, plac­ing sec­ond at both the Plan­ta­tion and Fair Hill Horse Tri­als. While Cooper enjoys jump­ing, Car­rie has hopes of com­pet­ing Flynn (pic­tured above right) in the dres­sage arena.

Both Car­rie and her two “boys” feel like one of the fam­ily at Ever­breeze, and love the train­ing, care and per­sonal atten­tion they receive with Kristin and look for­ward to a long and suc­cess­ful relationship.

“I have been train­ing with Kristin for 4 years and have two horses that are com­pletely dif­fer­ent. One is hot blooded and tem­pera­men­tal, while the other is a puppy dog who just wants to please. Kristin has taken the time to develop a rela­tion­ship with each of them and, rec­og­niz­ing that each has dif­fer­ent needs, has cre­ated cus­tomized train­ing pro­grams that have brought out the best in both of them. My horses are now happy and con­fi­dent and each time I ride them or watch Kristin ride them, I smile! I can­not thank her enough!!!” –Car­rie Callahan

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Ash­ley has been actively train­ing and rid­ing with Kristin since 2003. A long-time even­ter with her part­ner Oliver Twist, Ash­ley was able to take her Pre­lim­i­nary rid­ing in a new direc­tion under Kristin’s tute­lage. With Kristin’s coach­ing and guid­ance, Ash­ley suc­cess­fully com­pleted her first 1-star event on her dres­sage score at Mor­ven Park in 2004. Together that year, Ash­ley and Oliver Twist won the Area II Regional Cham­pi­onship for the Pre­lim­i­nary Divi­sion and were ranked 7th in the USEA Adult Ama­teur Pre­lim­i­nary Division.

With the help of Kristin, Ash­ley pur­chased her new prospect, The Art­ful Dodger. A neo­phyte to the event­ing world, Ash­ley trained and com­peted him under Kristin’s direc­tion up through the Train­ing Lev­els. Ashley’s tod­dler daugh­ter is now enjoy­ing pony lessons at Ever­breeze Farm.

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Beth started rid­ing with Kristin in 2010. Accord­ing to Beth, Kristin gave her the con­fi­dence she could not find with other train­ers, enabling her to excel and WIN her very first horse trial after train­ing with Kristin for only a short time. Beth cred­its Kristin with not only being a great teacher for horses when she is on their backs, but a great teacher for her stu­dents with the abil­ity to clearly explain how to pro­duce cor­rect results in an under­stand­able way.

Kristin helped Beth get the horse lease of a life­time with Stephen Bradley’s famous Olympic mount, From. After a year and a half of event­ing From at the Train­ing Level—where Beth gar­nered many 1st and 2nd plac­ings at shows up and down the east coast—Kristin and Beth trav­eled to Ire­land in pur­suit of her own horse. In the sum­mer of 2011, Beth brought home a young Irish Sport Horse geld­ing sired from Ricardo Z—the same sire of Kristin’s 2011 Alter­nate Pan-American mount Bal­ly­laf­fin Bracken. Beth is extremely excited about her new upper-level hope­ful, a 4-year old geld­ing named Ricardo Whis­tle and Pop. She con­sid­ers Kristin to be an extremely con­sid­er­ate rider and trainer that only wants to see her stu­dents excel, learn, and most impor­tantly have fun. As such, Beth has no doubt that Kristin will help her reach her 2* goal with her new part­ner in the near future.

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Carol has been train­ing with Kristin since 2005. She was intro­duced to event­ing through Kristin’s stu­dent Ash­ley and was lucky enough to part­ner with Ashley’s sea­soned event horse Oliver Twist. Carol and Ollie came a long way through Kristin’s tute­lage and earned a 5th place in Begin­ner Novice at their sec­ond ever event at Buck’s County Horse Trials.

Carol now rides her own off-the-track thor­ough­bred mare, Screen Mis­triss (aka Ria) pic­tured above right. All the jump­ing lessons with Kristin have paid off as the pair won their first out­ing at the Quiet Creek Hunter Pace-Novice Divi­sion in the fall of 2009. Carol is also Kristin’s web designer.

“I have trained with Kristin for 6 years. She has brought my rid­ing and con­fi­dence (espe­cially jump­ing) up tremen­dously and taught me so much about horse care. She is a con­sum­mate pro­fes­sional whether com­pet­ing, train­ing, or car­ing for your horses. You can’t help but become a bet­ter horse­man if you are lucky enough to spend time with Kristin, it’s a sim­ple fact!”- Carol Ann Hill

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Elis­a­beth has been event­ing since 2001, and suc­cess­fully rode up to the Train­ing level with her long time com­pan­ion Montana’s Glory under Kristin’s guid­ance. Elis­a­beth has had the great oppor­tu­nity to ride Kristin’s sec­ond advanced horse Sur­prise Party. They suc­cess­fully com­peted at Waredaca Train­ing 3 Day, fin­ish­ing 6th. She has also com­peted at Bucks County Horse Tri­als at Prelim/Training level with Sur­prise Party where they earned a 5th place.

As a grad­u­ate of Cen­te­nary Col­lege, Elis­a­beth has had the oppor­tu­nity to com­pete on the college’s inter­col­le­giate teams. In the 2006–2007 year she was the regions reserve cham­pion rider for the Inter­col­le­giate Dres­sage Team (IDA) at First Level. She also com­peted on the IHSA team at the inter­me­di­ate level. With the help of Kristin, she has fur­ther devel­oped her skills as a rid­ing instructor.

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Ellen has been rid­ing since she was a lit­tle girl and has chan­neled her pas­sion for horses into a busi­ness called Equine Organix. Equine Organix offers organic, sulfate-free groom­ing prod­ucts that are pH-balanced specif­i­cally for horses. (The Chamomile & Olive Oil Sham­poo is a favorite at the barn)!

Ellen began train­ing with Kristin in 2009. Dur­ing this time, she started event­ing with her equine part­ner Kiefer. As a lower-level even­ter, Ellen has ben­e­fited greatly from Kristin’s coach­ing – becom­ing a more secure jumper and gain­ing con­fi­dence in all aspects of her rid­ing. Out­side of event­ing, Ellen loves rid­ing Kiefer year-round and fre­quently takes him out on trails, hunter paces and for long swims.

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Joanne was given a great oppor­tu­nity to lease a horse named Eloise through her friend, Ali­cia Brownell-Hitpas.  Although Eloise was a sea­soned event horse who had suc­cess­fully com­peted through train­ing level, Joanne was ter­ri­fied of jumping.

Joanne came to Kristin in June of 2011 on the advice of a friend. Accord­ing to Joanne, “it was the best deci­sion I have ever made.” She was sur­prised to find Kristin so will­ing to work with a starter level rider jump­ing cross rails. In a few short months, Kristin trans­formed Joanne’s rid­ing by giv­ing her the tools to effec­tively con­trol her horse, giv­ing her greater con­fi­dence. As a result, Eloise and Joanne have become great part­ners. This past fall they com­peted at the Bucks County Horse Park and won the ele­men­tary divi­sion end­ing on their per­sonal best dres­sage score. Next sea­son they plan to com­pete at the begin­ner novice level.

Eloise loves liv­ing at Ever­breeze Farm. Accord­ing to Joanne, “it has it all: the best train­ing, great care with plenty of turnout, a huge indoor, and Christie Hoff­man Park right across the street. Who could want any­thing more?”

 

 

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Karen Tay­lor has been actively rid­ing for over 12 years. She pur­chased her first horse, Chief­tain, in 2005 and boards him at her home in Tewks­bury. The pair is a blast to ride with and together they enjoy almost every equine activ­ity imag­in­able includ­ing fox hunt­ing, dres­sage, swim­ming, trail rid­ing, hunter paces and event­ing. (She has yet to put him in front of a buggy)!

Karen started tak­ing lessons with Kristin to help her gain con­trol of her mighty fast Chief­tain when going cross-country and to help her improve her dres­sage (although Chief­tain is very obe­di­ent) Karen was hav­ing trou­ble keep­ing him on the bit while gen­er­at­ing impul­sion. Accord­ing to Karen, Kristin is help­ing the pair acheive bal­ance in all phases of their rid­ing allow­ing Karen to soften the aids so Chief­tain can lis­ten, wait and use him­self better.

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After com­pet­ing on the Inter­col­le­giate cir­cuit, Erica groomed for and trav­elled with Kristin through­out 2006 and 2007. Under Kristin’s tute­lage, Erica started her first event­ing sea­son with one of Kristin’s clients horses; a sea­soned vet­eran, as her part­ner, Oliver Twist. Erica and Oliver com­peted at train­ing level through­out 2006 and cul­mi­nated their sea­son with a suc­cess­ful go at the Waredaca Train­ing 3-Day. Erica and Oliver Twist were 4th at the spring Plan­ta­tion Horse Tri­als, 5th at Seneca Val­ley Horse Tri­als and 3rd at Apple Knoll Horse Trials.

Erica also had the oppor­tu­nity to ride Kristin’s first advanced horse, Rusheen War­rior. Together they were 3rd at Bucks County Horse Park Horse Tri­als in the novice divi­sion with the dres­sage award, 1st at Plan­ta­tion Horse Tri­als, and reserve cham­pion at the ESDCTA New Jer­sey Horse Tri­als Area Two Train­ing Championships.

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Kevin was com­pet­ing in Amateur-Owner Jumpers when she met Kristin. Kristin rekin­dled Kevin’s inter­est in event­ing, and she now owns two great horses that Kristin found in Ire­land. Del­gany Flight (Duffy) is Kevin’s very spe­cial pal who piloted her to the top of the Mas­ter Train­ing Rider Leader Board in 2006.

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