Stanton Stables Collaboration

As the University of Illinois Equestrian Team Coach, I collaborated with Stanton Stables http://www.stantonstables.com/ to teach lessons from 2003-2005. Stanton Stables at the time stood the leading APHA Sire Zippin and ran a therapeutic riding program.

Bonnie Stanton is the strongest business woman that I have ever met. I owe a lot of my perfectionism, interpersonal business skills, and desire to be a professional in the horse world to her. As their head riding instructor, over the course of 2 years, I taught over 100 regular students from pre-school through retirement age.

I received the greatest education from my lesson horses who literally had been searched out and found from all over the United States. My lesson horses had some amazing resumes: hundreds of breed association points and championships, former medalist jumpers, and even a Reserve Champion Western Pleasure Congress winner. My co-workers were trustworthy and talented. I literally watched them work for hundreds of hours. They taught me more about horse movement, balance, and the physics of ridings and instructing than I thought possible. Thank you to my lesson horses who were the best teachers I've ever had: Dewey, Kitty, Boots, Dixie, Foxy, Kayti, Toes, Dice, Zena, Annie, Benny, Merlin, Minnie, Luke.