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ABOUT KATHLEEN

"... the physicality of our world is a boundary to us only if our will is weak." ~ from The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein

Kathleen has lived, breathed and dreamed horses all her life. She spent much of her childhood in the American Midwest showing hunters and jumpers and riding the farm roads of rural Wisconsin in the summer. After her graduation from high school, she became a professional hunter/jumper trainer, taking horses and clients to shows in the Midwest.

Kathleen relocated to Colorado in 1994, and there met the horse who would change the course of her horsemanship. Ashcroft was a sale project, who Kathleen intended to train and sell as a show hunter. Kathleen worked with Ashcroft for two years with little progress. When everything she knew how to do didn’t work, she figured she’d have to perhaps do some things with him that she didn’t yet know how to do.

Once the decision was made to improve her horsemanship, she found author and clinician Mark Rashid, with whom she spent the next 10 years studying horsemanship, the last two years as his full-time assistant. During her time with Mark, Kathleen wrote her first book, “In the Company of Horses” and with Mark co-authored “A Life With Horses”.

 In 2007, Kathleen embarked on a solo career offering horsemanship and jumping clinics in the US and UK. She completes about 32 clinics each year and winters with her horses in South Carolina where she foxhunts with The Camden Hunt and shows hunters.

Kathleen still lives, breathes and dreams horses. She has dedicated her life to finding clear, fair and honest ways of working with horses. She works at her craft every day, with horses, with riders and in life.

photo left: Kathleen and Ruby, 2007, by Kyya Grant  ~  photo right: Kathleen at age 16 with Catch My Eye, by Rick Bate