About Us

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Willowbrooke Farm was founded by Jennifer Blades in 1990 as a small business with just a few lessons given each week.  Over the years, we have grown into a full service business which includes boarding, lessons, training, shipping, sales, camps, and horse shows.

Since we have grown, we have added to our staff.  It now includes:

  • Jennifer Blades as Head Trainer
  • Jenny Steinmetz as Assistant Trainer since 2003
  • Kelley Kinsler as Assistant Trainer since 2011

Jennifer has been involved with horses her entire life.  As a junior rider, she was actively involved in local 4-H and Pony Clubs.   She learned Dressage at a Trakehner breeding farm, and she has shown in Dressage and Jumping.
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Jennifer Performing Dressage

Jennifer Growing up, she began to focus more on training young horses for the hunter ring, which brought her to a large sales and lesson barn where she worked for 6 years.  She has competed both locally and nationally on her own horses and with her students, including yearly at the Winter Equestrian Festival in Palm Beach, Florida.

Currently, Jennifer is head trainer of Willowbrooke Farm, and the coach of the University of Michigan Intercollegiate Equestrian Team (where she has had a student win the 2001 National Championship in Open Equitation Over Fences).  

She is currently on the Michigan Hunter Jumper Association (MHJA) Board of Directors, and also the Board of Directors for the Hunter Jumper Association of Michigan (HJAM).
 

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Jenny Steinmetz
runs our public lesson program and day camps.  She is a graduate from the University of Findlay, who majored in English Equestrian Studies and graduated with a bachelors degree Magna Cum Laude in 2003. 
Jenny has been instructing at Willowbrooke Farm since 2003.
She is currently on the Michigan Hunter Jumper Association (MHJA) Board of Directors serving as Secretary.
 


Jenny Steinmetz
Jenny Steinmetz Jumping

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Kelley Kinsler
has ridden with Willowbrooke Farm since 2004.
She has successfully competed on the MHJA Regular Member Circuit since 2007. Since then she has won the MHJA Limit Junior Medal, along with many other year end championships in both the hunters and equitation.
In addition to showing herself, Kelley has groomed for top professionals working at AA-rated horse shows in Kentucky and Traverse City.
Kelley has instructed at Willowbrooke since the fall of 2011, and she has also been a camp counselor since 2008.
 


Kelley Kinsler

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