Third Charm Training Center is dedicated to creating a safe, positive environment, promoting harmony between horse and rider in order to achieve the highest potential of both. We are proud to offer the services of Jennifer
Holder, ARICP certified to teach Dressage, Eventing and Show
Jumping. For more information on Jennifer's background, please refer to "About Us" on the left.
Dressage lessons utlilize classical principles, laying a solid foundation according to the Pyramid of Training in order to enable the horse to advance properly. Riding "back to front" is strictly enforced, utilizing suppling exercises to promote relaxation in the topline to enable to horse to accept the correct engagement of the hindquarters. Our horses win regularly with excellent scores in recognized competition. We have achieved wins with horses as diverse as a Percheron, a Saddlebred, a Mustang/Standardbred cross, numerous Thoroughbreds as well as the 'traditional' Hanoverians and Oldenburgs. Our event horses are certainly not exempt from any of these requirements, as a proper foundation in dressage is essential to safe, fast cross-country and clean stadium rounds.
In the interests of safety, jumping lessons are first and foremost geared toward developing correct technique and confidence in horse and rider. Lessons are available for beginner through advanced students, on their own horses (green or trained) or on our top-quality, show-ready, beginner-friendly school horses. Gymnastics are used extensively, carefully tailored to the individual and combined with the appropriate coursework for Show Jumping, Eventing or Hunters.
Lessons (local area):
- 1-hour Private: $40
- Half-hour Private: $25
- 1-hour semi-private (2-3 students): $25 per rider
- Package rates available-please call to inquire.
Sindi Giordano, an adult rider at her first HT, where she placed second!
Cross-Country Schooling
We regularly travel to various facilities offering cross-country schooling. Sessions last approximately two hours. For five riders or less the coaching fee is $30/each, for more than five riders (which we prefer to avoid) it is $20/each. Facility fees are not included.
Facilities we visit include:
Tamarack Hill Farm, St. George's Quarters, Gibbes Farm, Paradise Farm, Sporting Days Farm, Jumping Branch
Farm, Fork Stables, Thoroughbred Training Center, FENCE, The Ark.
We try to ensure a great deal of variety and exposure to various types of fences for horses and riders of all levels.
Show Coaching
$30 per day, includes warm-ups and course walks for all classes and phases of competition.
Katy and Lady sail over a "weldon wall" type schooling fence.
