Katharine's Stables

Katharine began riding in 1962 at the age of seven and rode Western, Hunt Seat and Saddle Seat in Texas, West Virginia and Virginia where she attended College in 1970 and 1971. She studied Dressage and Horsemastership, rode colts in Florida, schooled with a gaited (laterally) horse barn and studied equine nutrition. All of her varied experiences are useful for helping animals and people in truly dynamic ways.

1973 - Katharine established FOX FIRE STABLE in Tucumcari, New Mexico where she practiced herbal horse care, taught Dressage and Eventing, boarded horses and trained young horses to sell. She bred 1/2 Thoroughbred show ponies, maintained a 14 box stall main barn with ride-able aisle, 40 acres of native pasture, an outside barn with paddocks, cross country course, dressage court, arena, stadium course, round pen and tack shop. She drove a 1 1/2 ton tilt cab, 6 horse capacity horse van. She schooled with Charles deKunffy, Mary Rose FBHS, Anne Gere, Shane Brasher, Colonel Womack and passed her Rocky Mountain Horse Show Assoc. Judge's exams in Denver in 1976.

1978 - Katharine established Basset Manor Private Institute of Equestrian Studies in Roswell, NM. She built barns, paddocks, arenas, jumps and courses. She taught Dressage, Jumping and Combined Training, boarded and trained horses, kept school horses and personal horses and hauled students to shows and clinics. She studied with Mr. deKnuffy, Brookes Busby, Peter Lert, Maj. Gen. Johnathan R. Burton and was one of 20 people selected from all over the world to ride for a scholarship at Morven Park IEI in Leesburg, VA. Katharine taught clinics and natural care workshops and judged shows in Portales, Clovis, Lovington, Albuquerque, Belen, Santa Fe, Roswell, Las Cruces, Alamogordo, Santa Rosa and Carlsbad, New Mexico and Lubbock Texas.

1982 - Katharine established BRIARWOOD DRESSAGE in Las Cruces, NM where she taught Dressage, Jumping and Combined Training, boarded horses, kept school horses and competed. She fed an herbal, nature based diet of her own design, lived in a dome house and taught compassionate communication. She taught at White Sands Missle Range and at barns in Mesquite and El Paso. She studied/cliniced under Mr. deKunffy, Richard Williams, Karen Cassidy/Lencyk and Dorie Vlatten. She completed an Animal Chiropractic workshop. She wrote "The Well-Being of Horses" as a manual for students. Katharine participated in a Bear Tribe Medicine Wheel in Payson, Arizona and studied Animal Healing techniques with Ken Page and Shirley Holley (who later became her Reiki Masters). Katharine began promoting "HORSEWOMANSHIP" and "GENTLE JUMPING".