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Kate is a John Lyons Certified Trainer and will bring a stock horse mare (7 years) to demonstrate dressage, a paint stallion (3 years) to demonstrate western and a 2 year-old gelding to show things to do with a youngster.

Kate has been around horses all of her life and has wide and varied experience in competing and training around the world. While competing in a Rolex International Dressage and Show Jumping Event in Asia, Kate realised that there must be a better way. She was in the winner’s circle but she was sure that her horse’s performance would improve if it were more willing, relaxed and really understood its job a little better.

She moved to USA and while the idea of Natural Horsemanship appealed to her, she had been disappointed by the lack of performance amongst its followers. It is great to be able to get a horse to jump a log at liberty when you are standing 20 metres away but that doesn’t help when you are in the dressage arena or even trail riding around the farm. A good relationship with your equine partner is essential but Kate feels that it should start there not end there.

John Lyons was the solution to Kate’s dilemma – there is a better way and you don’t need to sacrifice performance to have a willing, well-educated equine partner. Kate attended the John Lyons Trainer Certification programme in 2001. As she was living between CT and the UK at the time she spent the best part of 7 months in Colorado with John and Josh  and then returned a year later to do a ‘Select’ Trainer clinic with John.

While the merit of the certification course was unsurpassable, it is the experience of the hundreds of horses that Kate has encountered since then that makes Kandoo Equine what it is today.

One of the most important considerations when choosing a trainer or an instructor is finding someone who is a good teacher. It is all very well for the trainer to be able to get your horse to perform but they must also be able to teach you how to teach the horse. Kate is well qualified as a teacher – Chief Instructor of the Singapore Branch of the Pony Club, Instructor Lion Share Farm, CT (children and adults), BHS Level 1 and in more general teaching terms – TEFL (British Council,HK) children and adults in addition to a Montessori qualification, UK.

Having founded Equine Perfection in England in 2002, Kate worked training horses there until relocating to her native Australia in 2005.

She now works out of her NSW property taking horses in-house for training, backing/starting, conducts clinics and demonstrations, gives group and private lessons and has self-catering accommodation available at her property, Kangadoo.

For more information, visit Kandoo equine