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Wendy Wergeles
Eventing
(805) 344-1190

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Wendy is currently dividing her teaching/training schedule between Flintridge Riding Club and Cottonwood Ranch in Los Alamos, CA where she is based with Caliban (SWB/TB), an intermediate level Event horse co-owned by Kathleen Giovenco of Middleburg, VA and Ten (App. QH), a promising 3 year old co-owned by Marianne McRae of Phoenix, AZ. She has competed throughout the United States and Canado through the Advanced level in eventing. Her horse, Torque, wa awarded the1994 AHSA Zone 10 Advanced Level Reserve Championship in eventing as well as the 1993 Area X Intermediate Championship. Wendy currently trains with Don Sachey at his Raintree Ranch in Goleta, CA and has ridden with Capt. Mark Phillips, Christine Scarlett, Karen O'Connor, Mike Huber, Jack Le Goff, Jimmy Wofford, Andrew and Paul Popiel, J. Michael Plumb, Richard Meade,Bev Rogers, Gwen Stockebrand, Gerhard Politz, Victor Hugo-Vidal and Anne Kursinski.

As an instructor/trainer, Wendy has been based at many fine facilities including Shadowfax, (home of the world's smallest cross-country course) and Silk Purse Ranch, both in Las Vegas, NV; Goose Downs Farms, Galisteo, NM; Brusally Ranch, Scottsdale, AZ; Hobeau Farms (a Thoroughbred training and breeding farm where she also raced Quarter Horses), Ocala, FL; Brown Ledge Camp, Mallett's Bay, VT and Pondeverda in Durham PQ, Canada where, as a working student, she made the transition from riding hunters and jumpers with Frank and Wayne Carroll at Secor Farms in White Plains, NY to eventing.

As an instructor, she has had students qualify and compete in the North American Continental Young Rider's Championships and coached the Area X team in 1987, although her motivation is the commitment from her students regardless of their competitive goals or level of riding ability. She maintains a clinic schedule throughout the Western United States.

Wendy has recently received her American Horse Show Association "r" license as an Eventing Judge and has had an AHSA "R" Technical Delegates' License for over ten years.
She has been the organizer of the Las Vegas Horse Trials and the Silk Purse Ranch Horse Trials and been active on the organizing committees of the Goose Downs Farm Horse Trials, The Event at the Downs, Brusally Ranch Horse Trials, Coconino County Horse Trials, the Quebec Championships, and the Eastern Township Horse Trials.

Wendy was a founding director of Las Vegas Equestrian Events, Inc, the Injured Riders Fund, and the Eastern Township Children's Horse Events. She is a past member of the Board of Governors of the United States Combined Training Association and the Southern Nevada Hunter/Jumper Association and currently publishes Focus on Sport Horses, a sales brochure and website.