About me

I moved to beautiful Bucks County in Pennsylvania in March 2023, and offer training for horses and riders at Jericho Sporthorses. The emphasis of my training is developing the horse and rider in accordance to the pyramid of training for a correct foundation on which the further training builds. 

Please contact me at 505-730-4723 

Or email to kathrin@mybytes.de

Please follow the link to see the beautiful facility:

https://jerichosporthorses.com/our-facility

Starting with my first riding lessons when I was 16, I immediately was hooked with dressage and wanted to become a professional rider/ trainer. After I graduated from Commercial College and my final exam as municipal clerk, the opportunity for a two year apprenticeship at a dressage and jumping barn opened up. I graduated with distinction (Otto-Graf-von-Lehndorff-Plakette) as the best of my class as Pferdewirtin Schwerpunkt Zucht und Haltung (emphasis in breeding). I worked with the Hessian Breeding Association in Alsfeld, now Hanoverian Breeding Association, where I was involved with the training of the auction horses and assistance with the Elite Auction. I then took the opportunity for further training and begun my apprenticeship as Pferdewirtin Schwerpunkt Reiten (Bereiterin FN) near Collogne. I graduated in 2002 in Warendorf after only 10 months of training.




As Bereiterin I started my work at Gestuet Sommerlade, where I was assistant trainer for the stallions and the young horses. Here I met my later trainer who brought me up all the way to my masters exam, Heinz Croonenbroek. He trained with such well known riders as Fritz Tempelmann and Jean Bemelmans. Before I started working with him I finished my 3 months internship at Egon von Neindorff's riding institute in Karlsruhe, where I had the chance to learn about the classical dressage training in its purest form and learn from such horses as his former show horse Ebro the movements of the highest levels.




In 2003 I began working at Gestuet Berner with Heinz Croonenbroek, where I was as assistant trainer involved in the starting and further training of the young horses in dressage and jumping, as well as showing them in competitions, preparing young stallions for approvals, mares and stallions for performance tests, and sale horses for auctions. During the three years I also had the chance to train at Paul Schockemoehle's jumping barn in Muehlen to prepare for my masters exam in Warendorf 2007.



After I graduated the master program in Warendorf I worked i.a.at Gestuet Kampmann in Lingen where I trained with Jan Nivelle, national team trainer for the Spanish junior and young riders. In 2008 I got the offer to work at Pembroke Farm in New Mexico and moved permanently to the beautiful Rio Grande Valley. Currently I am training with Jeremy Steinberg. As head trainer I not only start Pembroke Farm's youngsters under saddle and train them up to the highest levels, I also offer training to students and their horses in the Albuquerque area.




Accomplishments

2018 Green Card issued

2009 won the USEF Adequan All Breed Award for Swedish Warmblood in FEI 5yr old class

2008 - 2021 Victories and placings in First Level through Prix St. Georges, and FEI young                            horse classes 

2007 4th place in Luxembourg Young Dressage Horse Championship Finals in the FEI                     5yr old test

2003 - 2006 Victories and placings in competitions for young dressage horses                                              national and international



2008 Certified Riding Instructor by the German National Equestrian Federation                                  (FN Trainer A license) and International Trainers License

2007 Master exam Riding/ Reitlehrerin FN (Pferdewirtschaftsmeisterin Klassische                             Reitausbildung)

2002 Final exam Pferdewirtin Reiten/ Bereiterin FN

2001 Participance at Federal Professional competition for Pferdewirt breeding                                   (Single score 5th place, team score 2nd place)

2001 Final exam Pferdewirtin Zucht und Haltung (emphasis breeding)