ABOUT THE AUTHORS

JORDAN HENDLER

     Jordan Hendler was born in Pasco, WA, a desert suburban area on the Columbia River Gorge, just south of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Being a rural community, it fostered the love of riding at an early age. By nine years old, her step-father purchased her a retired roping horse named Opal, who had a broken hip as a youngster, but still carted the kids around the roping arena like a pro. A short few years later, Jordan was halter training youngsters and started a young horse of her own.

     Currently, Jordan is navigating the elegant art of riding dressage, aboard Madison Avenue a young Dutch Warmblood / Thoroughbred mare. Also, in the spring of 2008, her mare "Pea" gave birth to a healthy Swedish Warmblood filly named Annika who shows much promise as an upcoming mount.

     As an author, she hopes that this book will give much-needed support to riding programs of all disciplines. It was in the early stages of training that she realized, in order to reach her goals, she would need a resource to keep track of the training elements and future progress of her riding. Without a good solution in the equestrian marketplace, she decided to construct one of her own. The Equestrian Lesson Plan, many years in the making, is her solution to that need.

MICHELE REESE

     Michele Reese was born in Mt. Holly, NJ and was in love with horses before she could walk. She got her first pony at age 2, because her parents thought it would be cute (they now regret that decision). He was a shaggy paint pony named Sugar and was the beginning of the love affair that so many of us are familiar with.

     In the beginning, she rode at a local reining barn, and she cleaned stalls so she could get extra lessons. On show days she would be up by 4am and walk across the dew covered fields to the barn. She was the first one there and usually the last one to leave.

 
     As much fun as she had riding reining horses, she had seen something else she longed to try at some of the horse shows she attended. She wanted to jump. After much begging, her parents finally gave in and took her to another trainer to learn to jump. Dawn Forester started her journey, and eventually Bob Allen took over.

     Michele began teaching and training at age 19. She was certified as a riding instructor through the American Riding Instructor Program at age 21. As an instructor she kept a notebook on her students, detailing the horse they rode, what they did in the lessons and what they needed to work on. She would then write an appropriate lesson plan for the next lesson for each student. Now retired from teaching and training, she is now a student and finds that the notes that she kept on her students helped her to remember what she had learned and gives her some ideas to focus on each time she rides.
 

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