Join us for one of the Livestreams listed below at your convenience and learn about the latest developments in saddle fitting! Mark your calendars!
Plus, keep an additional eye open for additional Q&As and lectures to be shared on the Schleese YouTube Channel and the Schleese Facebook Page.
Jetta Milam – https://www.instagram.com/jetta._.milam/ – August 13 @ 11:00 am
Jetta has been riding for over 11 years. She started with Western, moved to hunter/jumper, and landed in the dressage world. She is currently training towards getting her bronze with her main horse while progressing with her other two riding horses. When Jetta first started riding, she was never taught about fitting a saddle to the horse; she was only taught to fit a saddle to the rider. Since learning about saddle fit, the whole process has intrigued her.
Brooklynne Klingler – https://www.instagram.com/sagee_equestrian/ – August 13 @ 12:00 pm EST
Brooklynne is a 21-year-old equestrian from Utah who has been riding for as long as she can remember. She grew up competing in western 4-H and started riding English in 2018. She has since competed with the Utah State English equestrian team. Brooklynne now trains horses and teaches horsemanship lessons. She owns three horses: a paint horse, an OTTB, and a Mustang. Her horses are vastly different so that saddle fit can become tricky. She wants to be able to provide and share knowledge about saddle fit with her clients. It’s important to her that the horses she works with have the very best care with the knowledge available.
Hannah S. – https://www.instagram.com/silversnaffles/ – August 27 @ 2:00 pm EST
Hannah (Silversnaffles) is an English polo groom and equine manager based in Fredrikstad, Norway. After graduating with a Film Studies degree from the University of Warwick, she took on a social media internship at The Norwegian Polo Club which soon evolved into her becoming their groom and equine manager! With four horses and ponies of her own, she has always been a weird horse girl who is unapologetically obsessed with horses and how to improve their well-being.
Tristram Hokenson – https://www.instagram.com/tmhokens/ – August 28 @ 12:00 pm EST
Inspired by her grandpa’s horsemanship, Tristram grew up riding and owning horses. After college, she started learning more about Western horsemanship. Tristram took every opportunity to learn from her trainers by analyzing what they asked a horse to do and how the horse ideally was to move. Tristram currently breeds, raises, and trains mostly quarter horses. She takes in horses each month for training, ranging from colt starting to tune-ups. Her main horse is an 8-year-old mare she competed with in skijoring this past winter. Tristram aims to show her mare in working cow, stock horse, or versatility shows.
Kate Kudelko – https://www.instagram.com/painted__dressage/ – August 8 @ 2:15 pm EST
Kate is a young professional based in Brooksville, Florida, specializing in training ponies, small horses, and ‘rescues’ in dressage. Most of her clients’ horses are paints and stock crosses so she has run into her fair share of complications fitting horses with very wide shoulders in comparison to the size of their body.
Alexisandra Travis – https://www.instagram.com/sc00byd1zzl3/ https://www.tiktok.com/@sc00byd1zzl3 – August 30 @ 4:00 pm EST
Alex Travis is an Indigenous veteran from Arizona with over two decades of large animal training and handling experience and holds a Master’s Degree of Science in Animal Biomedical Sciences. She owns 8 equines; 2 registered quarter horses, 5 Mustangs, 1 draft cross Mustang and 2 donkeys. Alex’s training emphasis is on meeting the 3Fs and LIMA protocols, exclusively trains with positive reinforcement and most of her program is at liberty. She primarily works with feral/untouched horses and horses with a violent or aggressive history.
About Jochen Schleese and Schleese Saddlery Service Ltd.
Jochen Schleese got his certification as Master Saddler in Germany at the age of 22 and came to Canada in 1986 to establish and register the trade of saddlery in Ontario, Canada. With over 100 different models designed over the years, Schleese Saddlery Service Ltd is the world leading manufacturer of saddles designed for women, specializing in the unique anatomical requirements of female riders. Schleese authorized representatives provide diagnostic saddle fit analysis and saddle fitting services across the globe to maintain optimal saddle fit to horse and rider and together they have enriched the lives of over 200,000 horses.
He and his company have been the recipients of numerous business and industry awards over the years and have been featured in the Wall Street Journal , twice on the Discovery Channel as well as PBS. He has also won a “Winnie” award for his DVD “Beyond the 9 points of saddle fit” as best educational video in 2017 at the EQUUS Film Festival in NYC as well as one in 2019 for best educational book for his best-seller: Suffering in Silence: The Saddle Fit Link to Physical and Psychological Trauma in Horses.
He is a regular guest lecturer at various equine and veterinary colleges around the world.
For more information about Jochen Schleese and Schleese Saddlery Ltd. please go to http://www.saddlesforwomen.com/ or https://saddlefit4lifeacademy.com/
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Madison Loach
Schleese Marketing Lead
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