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| Bio of CAROLINE MICHELLE SIEGEL “making equestrian dreams come true” As early as age three, Caroline Michelle Siegel knew that horses would always be a part of her life. A passion nurtured by her grandfather laid the foundation for her equine career. While taking riding lessons in a hunter/jumper barn in Chicago, she realized the significance of the partnership between the horse and rider and it lit a fire for her to be a future competitor. Returning to Missouri led Caroline to become very involved in AQHA showing, competing, and judging quarter horses. She won world, state, and national awards. The lure of the mountains and big ranches led Caroline to attend Montana State University focusing on agriculture business and equine science. Opportunities to work on different guest and cattle ranches broadened horizons, and she learned to drive teams, to outfit and guide packs trips, and to teach fundamental riding. During one such adventure in Yellowstone National Park, Caroline met and fell in love with the Tennessee Walking Horse. The speed with which they covered ground fascinated her. After college she moved back to Missouri and began assisting Steve Ayres of Eudora Missouri learning how to train pleasure walking horses. Her extensive riding background quickly helped her to master the art of riding and showing Steve’s horses winning him many reserve and champion HAWHA ribbons. While under Steve’s tutelage Caroline began training her own futurity champions, moved to Kansas City, and accepted a teaching position at Misty River Equestrian Center, in Independence. She then became a CHA instructor focusing on all styles of riding including dressage, jumping, western pleasure and hunt seat. Wanting to expand her knowledge to include the riding and training of performance horses, Caroline began working for Michael Blewit at Arrowhead Stables in Odessa, Missouri. Becoming the first TWHBEA CRI in the state of Missouri, she realized the need for improved teaching methods in the Tennessee Walking Horse industry, and the lack of pleasure horse trainers in the area. At age twenty-six, Caroline Siegel opened Find Your Gait outside of Kansas City. Focusing on the importance of the partnership between horse and rider is paramount at Find Your Gait. Caroline has trained several pleasure horses that compete successfully at the local and state level. She has gained national recognition working with Nicole Carswell as clinician and instructor. Many of her students compete on the national and state levels successfully. At Find Your Gait Caroline continues to nurture each horse and rider team helping them to achieve goals great and small. It is the mission of Find Your Gait to give everyone who comes through the barn doors a sense of freedom and self confidence that can only be achieved through equitation skill and a Tennessee Walking horse. |