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| Training |
| Horse: |
| Wonderland
Farm starts unbroken horses under saddle as well as retraining
horses that were started incorrectly or have behavior
problems. |
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| Karen’s background in breaking, training, and
starting young horses includes over fifteen years of experience.
Throughout the year she breaks and trains numerous horses
and ponies of her own as well as horses belonging to clients.
With consistency and patience, she has been able to restart
several problem horses that their owners had given up
on because of behavioral problems. Her pet project is
retraining off the track thoroughbreds and giving them
a successful new career as hunters. One of Karen’s
specialties is starting young horses. At the same time
she was pursuing her degree in Equine Studies from Virginia
Intermont College, she was already putting her skills
to work in the ‘real world’, at Mapleside
Farm in Pennsylvania. She was solely responsible for
starting the many unbroke two year old thoroughbreds
and warmbloods on the farm, as well as advancing the
training on the older green broke horses. In the ensuing
years, Karen has compiled a long list of successes.
Please give her a call to see how she can put her experience
and talents to work for you.
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Karen
Mealey training Rhea for client. |
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| Horse
and Rider: |
| We
work with students that own their horse. We help rider
and horse develop a relationship of trust confidence and
mutual respect. |
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| Sometimes
problems arise that require going back to basics. Riders
often lack good basics of seat and lower leg. Horses may
have missed steps, or been brought along too quickly in
their training to develop proper balance and rhythm.
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| Katherine,
a well schooled rider, brought her five year old thoroughbred
mare, FiFi to us with behavioral problems. FiFi ignored her
riders aids, often planting herself, refusing to go forward
and bucking in response to her riders applied leg. Occasionally
she would take hold of the bit and bolt. Her rider had started
to become afraid of her. Karen took both Fifi and Katherine
back to the basics, to regain trust and confidence in each other.
They went back to walk/trot work to teach Fifi to carry herself
in a balanced, relaxed frame moving forward from her riders
aids. Today Katherine is taking Fifi through jump courses without
evidence of the previous behavior. |
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| Katherine Titus and Fifi |
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