Kate Thompson Mcdaniel Kate Thompson Mcdaniel grew up in Kittery, Maine. She spent her junior years riding with many wonderful trainers, including Bray Anderson, David Boley and Emerson Burr. Kate graduated from Lafayette College with a B.A. In psychology. After college, Kate worked as assistant trainer and rider for Semantha Burger, James Lala and Anne Sibson. She credits Anne for acting as her mentor and giving her the tools to find balance in the horse show world. In 2006 Kate opened Mill Pond, a family oriented show hunter, jumper and equitation business. Her students have sucessfully competed at state, regional and national hunter and equitation finals. Pat Fay Pat Fay's love affair with horses started 35 years ago. She spent her younger years in Rockport, MA working at a Morgan horse breeding farm, grooming at shows and driving events, backing and training young horses, galloping horses on the beach and riding the stallions. Later Pat graduated from college with a degree in animal science and moved to the seacoast of New Hampshire. She became a successful event rider which included qualifying for the National 3-Day Event Preliminary Championships with her famous Morgan horse, Minty?s Stardust. Wanting to continue her dressage training, Pat purchased a Prix St. Georges school master from Renate Lansburg and Cindi Wylie and also purchased a talented young Hanoverian mare. Pat continues to study and train with top trainers and for the past three years has been a working student for FEI Grand Prix dressage rider and trainer Jackie Smith. In addition to Pat's dressage training she has also worked for a large and small animal veterinarian for twenty-three years and is a certified Usui Reiki practitioner. She brings her knowledge and communication skills together in a relaxed atmosphere for horse and rider to learn in. Pat is committed to helping riders develop a harmonious relationship with their horse. Currently Pat is teaching dressage, training horses with behavioral problems, starting young horses, and giving Reiki healing sessions. Starfay@comcast.net 603-781-3759