I have horses in my blood. I was very fortunate to grow up in a horsey home with very supportive and understanding parents! I have been riding since before I could walk. I love to ride and train my own horses and to teach the joys of riding to all ages and abilities. I began my formal riding training at the age of 5 with Sue Kenney, now a well-known dressage rider, and started managing barns before I was a teenager. My teaching career began at 16 teaching at the GMHA youth camp in Vermont as well as teaching unmounted and mounted pony club lessons. Attending Smith College gave me the opportunity to experience hunt seat equitation and “catch riding”. I also ventured into the jumper world for a short time but my true love is dressage and eventing.

Once I graduated from college, I worked managing barns and teaching lessons at various barns on the North Shore. But I decided that in order to have my own barn, I needed to get a “real” job, so I went back to school to get a Master of Arts in Teaching from Tufts University. Now I am a high school science teacher. Because of my extensive training and experience teaching, I feel that I am very good with students who have different learning styles.

So, after taking a few years off from major competing (the last few years I have been nurturing Fieval through beginner novice at unrecognized and recognized events) to establish my teaching career, and getting married and moving to Brentwood, I am looking forward to teaching more riding lessons and competing my up and coming star, Pippin.

Kara has been very fortunate recently to have had lessons and clinics with Eric Smiley, Jimmy Wofford, Bruce Mandeville, Adrienne Iorio and Darren Chiacchia, Sharon McClusker, Danny Anholt and Claude Boulard. Plans are to have clinics with Beth Perkins and Leslie Law this summer.