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Kit has been a member at Flintridge Riding Club since 1990, first as a rider finishing her FEI - level training of her
own horse to Grand Prix Dressage under the eyes of Gerhard Politz, then as trainer and instructor. She is a member of APTI,
California's Professional Dressage Instructors' Association, and holds USDF gold and bronze medals. She also has a Master's
Degree in Teaching from the University of Redlands.
At FRC, Kit specializes in creating and increasing harmony and communication between members and their horses, tailoring
individual programs to the abilities, goals, and needs of each pair. This encompasses dressage to FEI levels, including taking
one member's horse from first level to showing success at Prix St. George, as well as preparing eventers for winning horse
trials rides, and beginners to personal as well as showing success. Private and group lessons, quadrille work, and full training
are available at all levels, as well as jumping and cross-training using dressage. Kit is at FRC six days a week.
Kit's background is broad and varied. In the late 1980's to 1990's, she took her initially young and untrained German
mare through all the levels of dressage to All-breeds Reserve Champion at Grand Prix and Special. In the early 1980's, she
had two years of extensive dressage training in Germany, where she also taught riding. In the 1970's, she was involved in
dressage, eventing and fox hunting in the Midwest, as well as teaching dressage and jumping in Chicago, the Philippines, and
Australia. In the 1960's, she finished a junior showing career in equitation, jumpers, and dressage by winning the AHSA Pacific
Coast Hunt Seat Equitation Championship. Her early training from a former Fort Reilley cavalry instructor grounded her knowledge
in the interrelatedness of all the riding disciplines.
Concurrently with teaching riding, Kit also "worked up the levels" in school teaching, having taught public
and private elementary, junior high, and finally retiring from South Pasadena High School's English Department to join the
FRC instructional program.
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