Whispering Winds Training Center

10/11/2024

09/20/2024

I wanted to take a minute to give some much-deserved praise to one of my students. Tori Goddard has worked hard and has done her homework after every lesson. Through her hard work and trust in me as her instructor she has qualified both of her horses for the regional championships. I am so very proud of her!!! Look out! Here we come!!

06/23/2024

I am so proud of my students, Lydia Griffith Jileka and Sharon Miesen! Mantis and Shah were really on today at the Morgan Show at Meyers Event Center in McKinney.

05/09/2024

10/05/2023

German Olympian Hubertus Schmidt explains the functioning dynamics of the half halt.

10/05/2023

Jonathan Wentz 1990 – 2012; Nine years ago, Jonathan entered the presence of our Lord…. I still vividly remember our last phone call. You were so excited about building on your success at London with the possibility of a new horse and an additional sponsor and plans for working toward Normandie and beyond. Determined that the US would take its place on the medal podium! Well Jonathan your advocacy, your drive your competitiveness continued…They did it!! Tokyo would be the place and time that the US would make the podium for a Team bronze and two individual Golds!! I know you would have been wildly cheering them on, pumping your fist, beaming with pride and the first to congratulate them and ALL the Individuals & Horses behind them that made it possible! Well done Team USA…. ! “Some trust in chariots and some in horses, But we will remember and trust in the name of the Lord our God.” Psalms 20:7

07/08/2023

A hot humid day. One rider. One horse. Both are exercising at a moderate level. Who is more likely to overheat? It might surprise you to learn that your horse gets hotter much faster than you and is more susceptible to the negative effects of heat stress. Prof. Michael Lindinger, an animal and exerc...