Millenium Kon Tiki | Barn Name 'Teak' | 2010 Half Arab Pinto

Tracie | Owner, Accounts Payable, Saddle/Bridle/Bit Fitter

Although growing up riding Western, my young adult life took me to the Hunter world. Then after raising my three children and their three American Shetlands, I decided to keep my horses’ feet on the ground and studied dressage with Teak and the late Belastra, my heart horse. We started with better developing foundational skills and working our way up the USDF levels.

Throughout this process with Belastra and Teak, I found how much I loved teaching and training foundational skills including flexibility, balance, impulsion, energy, confidence, obedience, yielding to pressure, communicating with body language just to name a few. I feel that all riders should develop strong foundational skills in their horses and continually review and integrate these skills into their regular training regime. It became a passion teaching youth riders, like my own children, these skills and how to integrate them into their everyday routines with their horse. A horse with stronger foundational skills will be a better athlete and partner and will hopefully provide that horse a better and healthier life.

Although I now take a back seat to horse shows and teaching to help my children achieve their academic and equestrian goals, I will continue to support all my horses with these essential life skills.

Tim and I have since become very involved in the eventing community as our daughters have growing interest in the US Eventing Area VII and train under fantastic Area VII coaches.

I have continued my education to include saddle, bridle, and bit fitting and my husband and I own Tack Room Too as a way to further support our family and the local horse community.