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Our goal is to help people form a safe, harmonious partnership with the horse through understanding the progressive gymnastic
training and always keeping the physical and mental well being of the animal in mind.
The farm and people here are ready and willing to help you have an enjoyable and worthwhile
time learning about horses and horsemanship. Over the years we have taken riders away from the stress of everyday life and
with the help of our farm life and animals, created a relaxing, rewarding experience.
We believe everyone deserves
the time to strive towards their own self fulfillment. You can create your own special program. We are here to serve your
needs, and make your lessons or your holiday a stepping stone to go on for further study and enjoyment.
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| Ken and his Milking Shorthorns |
Kenneth is a farmer and has been a research scientist and teacher on the side. Originally
from Massachussettes, as he pursued his degrees and career, he moved the family about the country, Pennsylvania, West Virginia,
Kansas, Michigan and finally settling in Maine.
He does all the necessary work and maintainance on the farm, is a great
cook, and likes to entertain people with discussions and stories.
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| Sam riding Bucky, her Milking Shorthorn steer in 1951 |
Sam began riding at age 11 on Bucky, a Milking Shorthorn steer. A few years later she moved to Dolly Dare, an ex-harness race
horse that she both rode and drove. Sam gained a degree in Animal Science from the University of New Hampshire.
In her over 40 years of experience,Sam has studied and ridden western, saddle seat, show and foxhunters, and entered into
the fields of combined training and dressage. She taught at summer camps, was head of Riding at Chatham Hall in Virginia
and while in Virginia, was a Whipper-In with the Bedford County Hunt. She belonged to the Affiliated National Riding Commission
as a rider, instructor, committee member and judge.
In West Virginia Sam established a small riding school.
Moving to Kansas Sam re-established the school and set up a riding program for the Physcical Education Dept. at Kansas State
University. Moving to Michigan, Sam again set up her school, helped establish the Tally Ho Pony Club and began competing successfully
in Combined Training Events on her homebred Thoroughbreds, winning many Michigan Combined Training Association year end awards.
Sam attended Sally Swift's first Instructors' Course and has attended Centered Riding clinics, workshops and instructor updates
in Vermont. Sam is now a CR Level III Intermediate Instructor.
Sam attended the 1980 and 1984 USDF/Vi Hopkins
National Seminars in Michigan as a participating instructor and several USDF Regional Instructor Workshops and Seminars in
New England.
Since moving to Maine, Sam has once again set up the riding school, is the instructor for
the Leaps n Bounds Pony Club and continues to organize shows and clinics. For the Central Maine Dressage Association she has
organized several United States Dressage Federation Instructor Workshops.
Along with training horses
and coaching riders, Sam travels to other states to give Centered Riding/Horse Training clinics.
Through
the years her most influential instructors have been Clayton Bailey in Forward Riding, Claire Noyes in Foxhunting, Joan MacCarthy
and June Mitchell in Western riding and reining, Sally Swift in Centered Riding, Major Anders Lindgren and Eric Herbermann
in Dressage, and Robert Hutton in Combined Training. She continues to study with Sally Swift, Robin Brueckmann and other Centered
Riding instructors.
Sam and Blue Memory (Mouse) in WV 1968
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