Riding Refinery
Re-Define The Way You Ride
Refine Your Riding & Transform Your Horse
Blending Modern Science With Ancient Horse Training Wisdom
The Riding Refinery mission is to transform horses and their riders – one step at a time, one stride at a time, and one ride at a time. Riding and training horses doesn't have to be some mysterious hit or miss activity. There is a better way. I teach riders how to connect and communicate more effectively with their horses both on the ground and under saddle using a combination of modern science and ancient training techniques. Clear and effective communication is the cornerstone of any good relationship, and your relationship with your horse should be no different. I will help you and your horse learn to speak a common language and build a better relationship. 
Have you ever felt like the sorcerer's apprentice getting trapped in a spiral of escalating chaos while your horse runs wildly out of control? When riding does it feel as if you are trying to invoke some special magic that just isn't working cause you are not a qualified equestrian wizard? If you continue searching for solutions to your horse's problems to no avail then you are not alone. Many modern horse owners and riders are stuck between a rock and a hard place, putting into practice all the right things (training, nutrition, high tech saddles, etc.) to become better equestrians, and yet progress always seems just out of reach. Often your hard earned education is either lacking some critical piece of key information or, even worse, it is riddled with misinformation. 
My goal is not to give you a book of magic spells for horse trainers, but to help you decipher and apply the well kept secrets of the Old Masters. The Masters of the Old School believed that every horse has a purpose, and that buried within each horse is a precious gem stone waiting to be unearthed and crafted into a piece of polished jewelry. I, too, believe that every horse deserves to live a meaningful life and become a priceless living work of art lovingly crafted in collaboration with the humans in its life. This is why I start with the basic principles explained by the teachings of the Old School. Grounded in over 400 hundred years of success, these basic principles are hardly ever explained by today's teachers and trainers. I reveal the missing basics, so you can work some magic of your own. I want to help you discover and release the hidden potential buried within your horse so you can finally turn that diamond in the rough into a your crown jewel.Learn more about my approach to training.
The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, but the LORD tests the heart. Proverbs 17:3
As fire refines precious metals by removing impurities, so too does the trainer refine the horse by daily gymnastic work in the arena.
The time tested gymnastic training process of the Old School improves the horse by imparting mobility to joints, strength to muscles, and refinement to the intellect.
