BMW Training is a dream that started many years ago with a young girl and her shetland pony. Our head trainer Emily has had a passion for horses since the age 6 when she took her first lesson. In the early years Emily spent all of her time in 4-H and Pony Club earning many High Point awards. It was clear to her trainer, Emily's talent and love for horses wasn't going to be a growing stage! Often found riding the horses nobody else wanted to or those titled " dangerous", Emily credits those horses as being her best teachers, " When you are working with a horse that has issues your true patience and horsemenship skills are tested. These horses are often the ones that teach us the most in life and in horse training".
At the age of 12 her parents bought her first horse, Diamond,and with him she started taking weekly dressage and jumping lessons. Together they made it to 4' in the jumping ring and 4th level dressage. Diamond is now happily retired but his life lessons and the time Emily spent with him set the tone for our current training programs.
In her teen years Emily took on two assistant training jobs working under FEI level riders/trainers . In those years Emily went to many year end championships and earned top placings including many Champion titles.In that time Emily also worked with some top clinicians in the US and in Europe to help define what type of rider and trainer she wanted to be. Taking away a wealth of education from the years spent as an assistant trainer, Emily is now training horses and riders in the dressage, jumping and English disciplines. Our training program has been structured around bringing horses and riders along correctly using classical training and not rushing the educational pyramid.The main focus in our program is getting both the horse and rider to clearly communicate while working up the levels and meeting your goals.
Some personal career highlights include:
78% High Score of the show with Galliano
70% 4th Level riding Woody
76% High score of the show riding Makani
70% Third level riding Diamond
Year End Champion riding Diamond
Reserve Champion Second level riding Diamond
66% Open riding Nino at Second level
Equitation High Score at CDS JR Championships
Year end Champion riding Makani
