TAPS Training and Showing

02/09/2025

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I dont care how difficult a horse is, if a horse is a class horse, if the horse is mentally, physically a class animal, I put up with almost anything - George Morris

02/09/2025

Today went by so fast! Great fun with some new friends! Hope everyone learned a lot. Or at least something 😉 Thanks again Kourtney for a wonderful day. 🐎

02/07/2025

Looking forward to giving a clinic to Hillcrest Stable students tomorrow! Thanks Kourtney for having me and trusting me with your people! 🐎 🐎 🐎

01/27/2025

This is my mantra! 💯

"Lessons are called riding lessons, not horsing lessons. Their primary purpose is to develop a rider. Once there is a good rider, he can become a trainer of horses, yet often riders are asked to train before they have the skills to do it."
- Charles de Kunffy,
Dressage Principles Illuminated p. 128
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http://www.charlesdekunffy.com/

01/27/2025

Had a wonderful time with a few great groups of riders at Bylund Hill Stables yesterday! Thanks so much Jen Bylund for having me work with your students and team. Was a great day!

Schedule your clinic for your riders this March to get ready for show season!

01/18/2025

Join us for an Equitation/Horsemanship clinic on February 8th at Hillcrest Stables in their new beautiful facility. For more information on my clinics please visit the TAPS website at Tapstrainingandshowing.simdif.com

Thank you Kourtney for organizing and inviting me to teach for your team!

01/18/2025

Looking forward to teaching a clinic at Bylund Hill Stables next weekend that is sold out! Thank you Jen Bylund for inviting me! Going to be a fun and challenging day of learning. 🎉

12/05/2024

Hello everyone. I am now scheduling clinics for 2025, focusing on the universal principles of horsemanship essential for success in Hunters, Jumpers, and Equitation. I’m open for all levels to participate, with particular emphasis on beginner levels and laying a strong foundation. Also filling my schedule to Judge Open Hunter Shows Please do not hesitate to contact me through this messenger service for additional details. My website also provides further information. Thank you to all who extended invitations and warm welcomes in 2024! I value your feedback and kindly request that you leave a review on my business page. ❤️

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10/29/2024

Winter time clinic spots available! A few winter lesson times available at North Riding or Hunter Hack Farm. Contact me for more information. More info at :

TAPS Services

09/27/2024

09/13/2024

I just LOVE this pic ❤️

“MILITARY” Riders---

Anyone who started to ride 50 or more years ago in any of the so called Olympic disciplines, dressage, show jumping and eventing, will remember just how many of the instructors we had were either former or current military men.

And from so many different countries, Poland, England, Germany, Hungary, Russia, Holland, USA, Canada, France, Czechoslovakia, others, and many of them here in the USA were recent arrivals from war ravaged Europe.

I don’t know who this rider in the photo is, or where he came from, or what year this was, but he exemplifies the solid and classical correctness that used to be a hallmark of riders who’d been taught by cavalry officers.

Most of them taught in similar fashion to the way they themselves had learned, rather formal, probably too “disciplined” in approach to be tolerated by modern Americans----Yes sir, no sir, thank you very much sir---Strict but almost never insulting, although some equated the two.

But the riders who could handle the discipline and the structure came away as good riders. That era is now quite far in the rear view mirror. And it’s like that meme we see---“Most of you never took lessons from military riders and it shows---.”