REESE EQUESTRIAN
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About Us
Established by Catherine Reese, we are based in beautiful Middle Tennessee, a short distance from Dickson, Nashville, Franklin, Clarksville, Murfreesboro, and the surrounding areas.
Mission Statement
We believe in making elite services available to all equestrians without predjudice. We support the purity of our sport and the development and continuity of our industry by devoting our efforts to bridging the gap between grassroots and high performance athletes.
Trainer
Catherine has been riding since 1988 and has held professional status since 1998.
At 13 she became a working student for the first time and devoted her life to the pursuit of a professional career in horses. She has studied under multiple trainers including students of Jimmy Wofford, Robert Dover, Reiner Klimke, Pat Parelli, John Lyons, Monty Roberts and many others. She has a background in Natural Horsemanship, Classical Dressage, Hunters, Jumpers, Equitation, Arabian, Half-, and Anglo- breed competitions, as well as a broad range of breeds and performance disciplines. In the course of her professional career, she has performed as a breeder, competitor, farm manager, trainer, clinician, instructor, columnist, judge, horseshow mom, and event organizer.
Her students have ridden to regional and national titles on horses usually bought through and trained by Catherine. Top awards include students twice in the top 5 in Arabian/Half-Arabian Region XIV Horse of the Year jumper standings (ranked Reserve Champion & 4th in standings) and as a trainer and instructor achieving multiple Regional Top Five, Reserve Champion, and Championship awards in open, junior, and amateur hunter, hunter hack and showjumping, with a 7th ranked finish in Jr/Am Jumper at the Arabian/Half-Arabian U.S. Nationals (she qualified multiple horses and riders two separate years before she stopped training), as well as numerous show championships and wins in everything from leadline to Gambler's Choice competitions.
Her training methods are individualized, paced and methodical, supporting confidence and eagerness in each finished horse and rider. Groundwork is approached with strong natural horsemanship theory, allowing the horse to teach itself when possible. Customized programs for show horses are designed to foster happy, healthy athletes physically and mentally capable of performing in their sport to their maximum. This is accomplished with an educated and analytical evaluation of their talent and an emphasis on long term showability by amateur and youth owners through modern training methods and classical values. The results are complete sport horses and well-rounded riders competitive in open and breed competitions. Show packages are designed with consistant short and long-term goals in mind and streamlined to fit the budgets of todays owners. Quality, not quantity is her mantra; build a tradition of recognized quality and quantity will be the evidence of success.
After a brief hiatus to start a family,she is excited now, after four years, to return to her equestrian career with her family in a way that will allow her to expand her experience as well as utilize the skills she has already acquired.