 Tracy and her flashy, versatile stallion Caz, have educated, enlightened and encouraged horse lovers with their unique and versatile backgrounds at many horse fairs in the States and Canada for the past 8 years. Her years of training experience has been fueled by her desire to learn and always strive to improve her training techniques by keeping an open mind to new and different ideas, not being afraid to change if there is a better way.
Tracy feels it is important to understand how your horse thinks and how to safely use principles and solve horse problems. The information covered in her training DVD's and in her clinics and demos are geared for all levels of riders and disciplines. Her background spans from relaxing down the trail, showing in traditional and gaited horse worlds to endurance riding and team penning! A professional horse trainer of non-gaited and gaited breeds. Since 1977, Tracy and her mother have raised Paso Fino Horses on their Wisconsin farm where it is the home to 50+ horses. In her spare time, she travels giving clinics and lessons. Her writing is seen in many regional and national publications and on many equine websites.
My first horse was an Appaloosa named Topper. Every picture I drew was an Appaloosa. Topper however, was black and would bleach into wonderful colors throughout the year. Topper and I spent lots of time together riding with my friends and their horses. We played tag, hide and seek and raced our horses riding forward, backwards and double. We set up a jump course of tree limbs; the jump standards were cement blocks and 55-gallon drums. Since we were lazy, we never used saddles when we rode. I spent many hours swimming on my horse, so not only was he in great shape, but sleek and fit as well! Occasionally he would crawl under his fence and go swimming by himself. I would run from pier to pier...trying to catch up to him.
We got our first Paso Fino mare in 1977. She came with a breeding when she was old enough. Marny (pictured below) was a result of that breeding. She was with me until April 24, 2001.
My interest in horses has been with me since I was young but it wasn’t my only interest. I discovered water skiing when I was 4 and it really played a major role in my life. From 1972 until 1992 I competed at Regional and National competitions and skied professionally. I skied on many different teams from Wisconsin and other States and met a lot of different horses along the way. During last two years in college I was part of a world record for 32 skiers behind a ski boat and also wrote and published a book on swivel skiing. I was also awarded the first Willia McGuire Cook Award at the National Tournament given to the outstanding female skier. Whatever that is supposed to mean. I just loved to ski. Even today I smile when I see little girls looking through their new book and dreaming of skiing while a tournament is going on.
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