Our dedicated team has devoted almost their entire lives to horseback riding and horse training.

Nicole Barbour spent her junior career in the Northeast being trained by Judy Richter. She was a blue ribbon winner at Oxridge, Fairfield County Hunt Club, Lake Placid and Devon. She qualified for the Pennsylvania and New York National Horse Shows in the junior working hunter, 2nd year green and regular working conformation divisions as well as the AHSA Medal Finals and the ASPCA Maclay Finals. She was fifth place in the 1976 Professional Horseman’s Association Hunter Seat Medal High Score Award presented at Madison Square Garden. She has been training young students in WNC for the past six years to compete at the BRHJA, Progressive Show Jumping horse shows, and the “A” circuit. Nicole also shows on the Progressive Show Jumping circuit, “A” circuit, and “AA” circuit earning Champions and Reserve Champions.

Lynelle Flowers recently moved from California. She has been involved in Pony Club, Eventing, and Western riding. Focusing on Dressage for the past 25 years, she believes Dressage training is for all breeds, ages, and disciplines. In 1995 she was a participant in one of the first USDF Instructors Program in Northern California. In 2000 she graduated form the USDF “L” Judges Program “with distinction.” A three time Educational Chairperson for the Sonoma Chapter of the California Dressage Society, she was responsible for organizing numerous clinics, symposiums and USDF educational programs to promote dressage, not only as sport in its own right, but as an effective tool in training for all types of riding. Lynelle spent several years training with Debbie McDonald and Gerhard Politz and has participated in clinics with Steffen Peters, Lilo Fore, and Christine Stuckelberger. She has competed successfully through 4th level with awards from USDF & CDS.

Annie Rotondi spent her junior years in Massachusetts, where she competed extensively on the "A" and "AA" show circuits. She won top ribbons at St. Clements Saratoga, HITS Ocala, and Vermont Summer Festival. In 1998, she finished fifth in Zone 1 in the Junior Hunter division, and qualified for the Pennsylvania National and Washington International horse shows, as well as the NEHC Junior Hunt Seat medal finals. Annie has spent recent years on Martha's Vineyard teaching riding lessons to children as well as working in the training and selling of young horses and ponies.