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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
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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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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.
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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.
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
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PRODUCTS
2007 TRAVERSE CITY PICTURES
2003 PICTURES |
2004 END OF YEAR AWARDS|
2010 SHOW SEASON
E-mail:
willowbrookefarm@aol.com

© Copyright 2011
Willowbrooke Farm
All rights reserved.
Revised
12/21/2011
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