Maffitt Lake Farms

 

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

 

Solitude Farms – Ocala, Florida/ Kalamazoo, Michigan October 2005 to 2006

• Worked for Debbie & Pat Seelyle
• Competing, developing, instructing and showing sale horses

Kimberden Farms – Ocala, Florida/Corryton, Tennessee2005

• Worked for Dennis Mitchell & Kim Burnette
• Competing, developing, teaching and showing sale horses

Millstream – South Carolina 2005 Ocala/HITS

• Worked for Aaron Vale
• Competing, client training and developing and showing sale horses

Scandinavian Sport Horse – Sweden 2002 – 2005

• Worked for Bruce Goodin and Henrik Lanners
• Competing, developing, and showing sale horses

Thunderbird Training, Vancouver 2002

• Worked for Laura Balisky, two-time Canadian Olympic rider

European Sport Horses, Belgium2001

• Worked for John Grey, Anne Symmes, and Bruce Goodin, ( New Zealand Olympics, Sydney 2000, Athens 2004)

Fairway Farms, Vancouver 1997 – 1998

• Worked and trained with Judy Wise  

ACHIEVEMENTS

• 2004 Owned and trained Grand Prix horse “Braveheart” – Qualified and competed in Athens’ Olympics with Bruce Goodin
• 2002 Silver medalist team member of the North America Young Riders Championships
• 2002 Several top ten placing in local Grand Prixs
• 2002 Qualified to compete in the NAYRC final selection class in Del Mar, California
• 2001 Many championships in high junior amateur divisions
• 2000 Qualified for the Equitation Regional finals
• 1999 Won the Sun Alliance Scholarship at Spruce Meadows, Calgary, Alberta  

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION

• For three years I worked for Bruce Goodin, multiple Olympian, training and preparing hunters and jumpers for client sales, regularly competing in rated national shows, with young horses to Grand Prix horses including four-star CSI Internationals
• Extensive experience managing a sales barn, licensed to drive horse lorries
• Strong people skills and have own clients
• 2001 completed first year at Kwantlen University in Langley, British Columbia
• Part time music acoustic and electric guitars

SPONSORSHIPS

• Charles Owen Equipment
• Equine Athletics