Taylor Made Dressage

06/22/2025

Hi all, I currently have 'training stalls' available at The Equestrian Center at Twinwood. I am happy to teach novice to advanced riders in flatwork, pole work or jumping and have pure dressage clients, many eventers, older amateur ladies just wanting to have fun and teenagers in my program. You would be required to have 8 lessons a month and my daughter 'Carly' (who is an experienced Grand Prix rider) is available to ride if and when she is available and would be organised separately and would be additional to your contract with me. Twinwood is an absolutely beautiful facility (look up their website [email protected]) located west of Houston. If you require any further information or would like to chat or visit Twinwood, please PM me.

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03/28/2025

Hi all, Just a reminder that as of 1st April, 2025, the rules regarding headset use at USDF recognised shows will change. Following eventing and show jumping, USDF will now only allow competitors to have an ear bud/ear piece in only 1 ear for safety reasons whilst being coached, therefore we can no longer use the 'Sena headsets'. I shall be bringing my ceecoach in future for everyone's use and have purchased a one ear headset which I hope will work for everyone. Of course, feel free to purchase your own one ear headset to work with my ceecoach 1 if you prefer (it is the older version, not the wireless version). This is for competitions only, for normal lessons I will continue using the Sena system! If you have any questions, let me know.

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03/01/2025

So as its officially 1st March today, I can now say that as of next month I will have been at Twinwood as a boarder and as a trainer for 15 years!!! Time has literally flown by, Fulshear has expanded unbelievably and Simonton will be next and although Twinwood has changed somewhat over the years and all for the better with so many wonderful upgrades, it has and will always remain my beloved home from home! I feel very thankful every day, coming to work here amongst this little piece of heaven and tranquility - long may it continue. Here's to the next 15 years!!!

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12/03/2024

After many, many years, I find that I actually have spaces in my schedule for more lessons! Also, I have the possible potential for 1 or 2 'training stalls' which requires taking 2 lessons/week (8/month). PM me if you wish to discuss or require more information. Dressage riders and eventers, novice to GP welcome.

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01/24/2024

Huge Congratulations!

First competition of the 2024 season in the books ✔️

Despite a sketchy start in -3° temperatures ❄️ with some of the horses having some rather frisky moments 😳, we actually managed to keep ourselves together for great results

Young superstar Monty owned by Ayse Vrielink, just keeps delivering. He scored a near 73% for a win at his first try at 3-3 and was high point open winner of the day

Animo owned by Donna Phillips yet again pulled off another highlight test for a 74% win in the Int 1 and a fantastic 75% in his freestyle. High point winner for FEI and Freestyle over the weekend

Fancy owned by Jamie Crawford debuted his first time at 4th level and although the first test is something we don't talk about 😆🙈, he redeemed himself for a 70% win the second day

Ziggy owned by Connie Mastro also performed well for 65 and 70% at 3-3

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

01/22/2024

HDS WINTER SHOWS I AND II

Well, despite the weather being absolutely freezing cold and my fingers and toes being numb most of the weekend, I am absolutely delighted with the results from the first show of the season, making it all worthwhile. No less than 8 high point and reserve high point champions over the two days!

SATURDAY
Champion Open (National level) Carly
Reserve Amateur Champion (FEI) Kacie
Champion (Freestyle) Carly
Reserve (Freestyle) Jillian

SUNDAY
Champion Amateur (National level) Nancy
Champion Open (FEI) Carly
Reserve Champion Open (FEI) Erik
Reserve Champion (Freestyle) Jillian

Well done to all of my clients! A special congratulations to Nancy in her very first recognised show (scoring an amazing 69%), Erik doing his first PSG test in years and winning the test out of 8 very good riders on Sunday (with a 68%), Kacie earning her Regional qualification at Intermediate level first time out, Jillian who got the 65% at Freestyle (on a tricky OTTB mare) that she’s worked so hard for and of course, my daughter Carly (whom I am so incredibly proud of) getting over 70% in all of her tests on Sunday, with a massive 74% at Intermediate level! Thank you to everyone who braved the cold to come out and watch. Thank you to my friends and colleagues for all your support. Thank you to Twinwood for the amazing facilities that enable me to keep teaching throughout the year, no matter how much the freezing cold and the boiling hot temperatures try to interfere with our training!!! I am one very happy and proud trainer!

12/22/2023

I would like to wish all my family, friends and colleagues the merriest of Christmases and a happy, healthy, successful New Year. I especially want to thank my amazing clients, who bring joy to me every day. Thank you all for the wonderful gifts you have given me this Christmas, I am truly humbled by your generosity. I am very grateful for all that I have and very much look forward to 2024 and all the exciting things it will bring!

12/11/2023

The HDS Schooling Show Championships/Open Show held every year in December is such a fun event. It is a great start to the festive season and everyone was in the best of spirits. All of the Twinwood Trainers were at the competition, either riding themselves or with their clients and we all had a fabulous time, starting with a ‘happy hour’ on the Friday night after bringing horses in, bedding down and coaching.

I had 11 horse/rider combinations, two in the Championship classes! Everyone did really well and thoroughly enjoyed themselves. We had horses who hadn’t competed in years, riders who hadn’t competed on their horses ever, rider/horses trying a new level and some really fun freestyles with Christmas music!

Thank you to HDS for organizing this great show every year. Thank you to the judges and volunteers that make this show possible. Thank you to my fellow trainers, competitors, friends, family and those who came to support their fellow boarders. Thank you to The Equestrian center at Twinwood.

The ‘serious’ stuff starts in January with the HDS Winter Shows I and II on 20th/21st January. Hope to see many of you there. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all!!!

10/29/2023

Well what a fantastic day was had by all at the Halloween schooling show held yesterday at The Equestrian Center at Twinwood, organised by Leslie Rohrer with all proceeds benefitting the charity SIRE. It was a beautful, hot, sunny day and we had dressage, jumping and our fun 'trail' class. Congratulations to all my clients - Emma rode Boji at 1st Level for the first time, earning them Junior High Point, Holly rode 1st Level to get her second qualifying score for the Schooling Championships in December, Mo rode Training Level and Prix CaprillI and got both her second qualifying scores for the Championships. Kacie rode Intermediate I for the very first time, Ayse rode her horse Monty herself for the very first time at a show at First level, Debbie rode her Novice Eventing test and continually gets consistent scores and finally Carly rode my new young boy, 5 year old Rocco in his very first ever dressage test and got a 71% at Training Level! Very proud as he was only broken in earlier in the year and I have only had him for 4 months! Congratulations to everyone else too, we had some fantastic rides by the other trainers - Jessica, Ida and Jackie and as usual, Erik made us laugh in his Chris Jenner costume! The costume classes were unbelievable, with everyone making such a massive effort, how some of the horses endured the get up, I do not know. In the afternoon, we held the trail class which was a great success, with a 'halloween' theme and lots of clients went around the course in hand afterwards to desensitise their horses - the tarpaulin being the scariest thing on the course! Jackie held the show jumping part in the other arena - which she organised. Thank you so much to Twinwood for hosting the friendly, fun show, to all my fellow colleagues and management, to all the help the boarders gave me setting up the course and helping take it down at the end of the day, to our lovely judge, Fran Kehr (dressed as the devil) and especially to Leslie for organising the show in the first place. I hope we made lots of money for SIRE!

Next up, is the actual Schooling Show Championships and Open Show on 9th December - so far, I have 11 horses going, so should be a whole heap of fun! Can't wait, it is such a fun show and always gets us in the festive spirit and is always a great start to the holiday season!

10/16/2023

Another wonderful piece of news..... One of my clients, Stephanie Tassos Reimers just passed her TD exam and is now an official Technical Delegate for Eventing! Huge congratulations.

10/16/2023

Great job! 2023 was a difficult year for the horses as they had to contend with the heatwave that lasted for months! Lets hope that 2024 is a little kinder to us.

10/15/2023

So proud of my client, Debbie Blake, who gained another clear round in the XC section at Pine Hill yesterday and has now already qualified for next year's AECs!

This weekend, my eventers are attending a clinic with Carsten Meyers at Twinwood - wonderful weather, fabulous teaching and awesome facility!

Next up we have our own 'charity show' on 28th October at Twinwood, benefiting SIRE of Fort Bend County. I hope as many of my clients (who are either boarders at Twinwood or who haul in for lessons) participate in some way. It is always such a fun, relaxed, wonderful little show, with great local judges joining in the spirit of Halloween. Some of the costumes that people have worn in the past have been spectacular! Really looking forward to it, just hope the sun shines on us. Fingers crossed.