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The Team
Dorie
Trapp Forte
Dorie
started riding as a youngster with her pony,
Trixie. She was self taught and only rode on
the trails. Her family moved when she was
still in elementary school and Trixie was
sold. But Dorie never gave up the hope of
riding again and at the age of 15 she
finally convinced her father to buy her
another horse. Again she was self taught
until she connected with a local hunter
trainer and her show career started.
Dorie rode
hunters off and on for the next 30 years,
having some great success with her horses,
Arch Rival, Taylor Made, and Hallston. During
the past 10 years, she started to cross train
her horses in dressage and found this to be
a great way to start young horses. After a
bad riding accident, Dorie made the chance to
exclusively riding dressage and purchased
Froelich, a green broke four-year-old and
started training with Teresa.
Froelich
has been Dorie's dressage horse of a
lifetime. In 2006, as a four-year-old,
Froelich and Dorie qualified for both the
CBLM's and GAIG's Championships at training
level, and she was the highest placed amateur
in the open training division at the CBLM's.
In 2007, Dorie and Froelich had a stellar
year with numerous wins, culminating in
several USDF All Breed Awards with the
Oldenburg, NA at First Level and capturing
the 2007 USDF Horse of the Year in the 4 amd
5-year-old Gelding Materiale Division with a
median score of 82.%. As this was the
highest score our of all four materiale
divisions, and Froelich became the inaugural
winner of the Sunshine Sporthorse
Association of Florida perpetual trophy.
Along with Dorie's success with Froelich,
Teresa has had many national successes with
him in
the FEI Young Horse competitions. Look for
Teresa and Froelich in 2008 in the FEI
6-Year-Olds and with Dorie at Second Level.
Jill
Frumin
Jill grew
up in New York and loved horses from the
moment she first saw one as was as a little girl. She started
riding seriously in graduate school in St.
Louis, doing some hunting and eventing.
After moving to the Washington, D.C. area
for work, she continuted eventing until
making the gradual switch to dressage.
Over the
years she owned several different horses but
did very little showing as she tried to
balance family, work and riding. In
September 2006, she and a friend went to
Germany to look for a top prospect to bring
along. With the help of Barbara Manor from
German Sporthorse Consulting, Jill found her
super Westfalen Riding Pony, Picolino 2.
Jill began working with Teresa since
importing Pico as a three-year-old in
November 2006. During 2007, Teresa showed
Pico with great success and many first
places in training level classes. They
qualified for the CBLM Championships in May
2007 in a test where the pair earned two
perfect scores of "10". They plan to
continue training and showing this talented
pony in both young horse and USDF classes
during 2008.
Marie
Nichols
Marie
started riding at the age of eight when she
got her first pony. At the age of 11 she got
her first horse, and a few years later
started riding at a local training barn
backing young horse and exercising the
resident breeding stallions. Following
graduation from college, she moved from New
York to Virginia. In 1985 Marie started
riding in local hunter shows with her Morgan
gelding. In the late 80's a move to Maryland
brought her in contact with a dressage
instructor at a boarding stable and her love
for dressage began. Soon thereafter, she
purchased a four-year-old Anglo/Trakehner
mare that she showed at the lower levels
until a lameness issue forced her mare's
early retirement. Following an exhaustive
search for a new dressage prospect,
Michelangelo was found on a tape of young
Dutch prospects shown by her friend and
local horse importer, Mike Norwood, of
Dutchhorses.com. It was a case of love at
first sight. Mikey, a NRPS-registered Dutch
gelding, is her best friend, dance partner
and vigilant bodyguard. Marie and Mikey
(M&M) have worked under the watchful eye of
Teresa for several years.
Suzanne
Sherwood
Suzanne
rode as a child but did not own a horse
until she was 29. Riding has been a passion
ever since. Suzanne's first horse, Jim
Bridge, was owned by Olympic Gold Medalist,
David O'Connor. Bridger was the horse David
bought in Nebraska when he and his mother,
Sally O'Connor, rode their horses across the
United States.
With the
demands of family and school, Suzanne spent
most of her time trail riding, and later did
jumping and driving horses. Suzanne began
competing in dressage when she bought her
Thoroughbred/Quarter horse, Absolute.
Working with a previous trainer, Suzanne and
Absolute won the CBLM Adult Amateur Training
Level Championship in 2003. She also
competed with her friend Dorie Forte in
First Level Pas de Deux. The pair was very
successful at shows, and also were involved
in a fund raiser for an injured rider. In
2004, Suzanne and Dorie were the CBLM
Reserve Champions for the first ever Pas de
Duex. You can ready about Suzanne and
Absolute in the recently published book,
"Back To Work", by Lucinda Dyer, and how
Suzanne utilized massage therapy to bring
Absolute back to work after he broke his
leg.
Suzanne
now owns Worthy, a FEI Hanoverian she
purchased from Phoebe Devoe, owner and
trainer at Thornridge Manor in Baltimore.
Suzanne recently began working with Teresa
and plans to continue to show Worthy. She
combines her job as a trauma critical care
nurse and faculty at the University of
Maryland with horses; she teaches the
"Prevention and Care of Rider Injuries:
around the barn, on the trail, during the
show" to local dressage Chapters.
Diane
Skvarla
Diane
began her riding career at age ten on Corky,
a 12.2h skewbald Welsh pony with blue eys
that the family purchased while living in
England. Diane and Corky had numerous
successes in equitation, jumping and
gymkhana classes - Corky was unbeatable in
pole bending and egg and spoon races.
After
returning to America, attending college and
beginning her career in the museum field,
Diane was only able to ride part time.
Wanting to realize a dream of returning to
England, she moved back in 1990 to be a
working student for British dressage rider
and international judge, Judy Harvey. While
there, she had the opportunity to work with
Stephen Clarke, and took her British Horse
Society examinations.
Today,
Diane owns Prism, a 17.2h bay Swedish
warmblood. She has worked with Gunnar
Ostergaard in the past and has been a
student of Teresa's for several years. When
not a the stables, Diane spends her days
working at the U.S Captiol in Washington,
D.C. as Curator to the Untied States Senate,
where she directs the Senate's museum and
preservation programs. She has written books
and articles, and organized major exhibitions.
Deborah
Stewart
Deb
was born in Evanston,
Illinois, but spent most of her childhood in Ellicott City,
Maryland.
Even though Deb loved horses since
she was a little girl, she didn=t
actually start riding until she was in her
early thirties.
Deb tried a variety of different
riding disciplines but it became apparent
early on that dressage was her favorite.
Over
the years, Deb has owned several different
warmbloods, each of whom helped further her
dressage education as she learned how to
ride through the mid levels. She bought her
latest horse, Marseillaise (Sandro Hit x
Feinbrand), in 2003 when she wasn=t
even looking for a new dressage partner.
Deb had just dropped a mare off to be
bred and was casually walking through the
breeder=s
fields looking at the babies when a young
filly standing in a field with about ten
other youngsters caught her eye.
Marseillaise had been imported from
Germany
and was then around eighteen months
old.
Deb couldn=t
stop thinking about her so she bought the
young mare as her upper level dressage
prospect.
In 2005 Deb had Marseillaise shown in
hand with great success; they won the Filly
Championship in Lexington, Virginia, and
finished tied for sixth in the East Coast
Cosequin Championships for Fillies at
Dressage at Devon.
That same year, Marseillaise also
received the award for Reserve Champion for
Three-Year Old Fillies from the Oldenburg
GOV.
Deb
began training with Teresa in November 2006
when Marseillaise was just about to turn
five years old. In 2007, Teresa showed
Marseillaise at First Level.
The pair had a year filled with
success, culminating in becoming First Level
Reserve Champion at the CBLMs in
Allentown,
New Jersey. Teresa will continue
to train and show Marseillaise up the levels
while continuing Deb=s
riding education.
Deb is excited about making her own
showing debut on this talented mare during
2008.
Melissa
Swearingen
Melissa
started riding when she was eight-years-old
at Woodland Horse Center in Maryland. She
was inspired by her Mom, who was a very
successful hunter/jumper rider as a
teenager. Melissa was at Woodland for three
years, before moving on to several private
farms, where she rode in exchange for barn
work. At one of those farms, Melissa found
her first pony, Bart Simpson. However, the
two were not a good match and Melissa's mom
kept the pony for herself as Melissa
searched for a new horse. She started taking
lessons at Trinity Horse farm, where she
learned about dressage. For Melissa's 13th
birthday she got Cezanne, a 5 & 1/2 year old
Holsteiner. Melissa and Cezanne competed
through First level under the guidance of
Linda Speer. The pair also competed in
hunter./jumper and eventing, before
concentrating on dressage. Melissa was
introduced to Teresa at clinic's at Linda's
farm, and in August 2007 she became Teresa's
working student. Melissa will be showing
Cezanne at Second level in 2008.
Melissa is
17 and a senor at Springbrook High School.
She plans to continue her education at
Montgomery Community College next year,
while continuing to train with Teresa.
Justin
Boyn - Farrier
Jeff
Shelly - Chiropractor
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