Looking for a dressage lesson program in the NY/NJ area. Searching for a trainer who can enhance my flatwork knowledge as a hunter/jumper rider, to gain more experience in more profound lateral flatwork/connection which I can use as a tool to carry over to the hunter/eq world. I guess bonus points if the trainer has experience in both! Program must provide a horse. TIA!
Lesson horses may be a struggle unfortunately. If you are willing to part lease, that may open up more options. Lauren Chumley in Pittstown, NJ has a lot of sale horses, so she would be worth a call. Maia Gromadowski in North Salem, NY has one lesson horse I think.
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I agree about lesson horses and schoolmasters being hard to find in dressage programs, unfortunately. If you’re leasing, your options open up considerably. I highly recommend Jamie Dancer (and her assistant trainer Melissa). They did have one or two horses for lessons when I rode with them.
Barbara Filippelli is who I would recommend. Fantastic trainer and judge, and just overall wonderful person, experienced in both hunter/jumper and dressage.
Also if Maia Gromadowski does have a school horse (she used to have her former semi retired jumper turned dressagehorse available for occasional lessons), she grew up doing equitation and jumpers as a junior and only switched to dressage as an adult so might be a good fit.
