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My name is Lindsay Steenhoek,
I'm from Tottenham Ontario, and I went to Banting
Memorial High school in Alliston.
I'm in the Performance Horse Handler
Certificate through the Ridgetown Campus
of the University of Guelph.
I chose to take this program because
I have a lot of experience in the barn
but I wanted to learn more of the
business side of the program,
and more of the theory behind it
like the anatomy and health.
I went to Kaiser Stud in Cookstown
for my placement.
It's a hand vering breeding and gissage farm.
My supervisor was really good about everything.
She really gave me every opportunity
to learn that she could.
I got to ride horses, I got to lunge horses,
I got to talk to the farrier
and the vet when they came
and I got to learn a little bit about
breeding too.
After graduation I hope to work for a
hunter jumper barn and just gain
more experience in the hunter jumper
world and then open my own facility.
This is a very small town so you get to
know everyone really well and you get to have
your favourite places to go and see
and everything is really nearby
so you can walk to almost everywhere.
I brought my horse here.
He is a 3 year old Hanoverian Gelding,
and I love having him here.
It's one of my favourite things about being
at school. I can come out after class and ride.
The facility is really great.
The arena is nice and big and the stalls are all
12 by 12 and very bright as well.
This semester we have a show prep project,
so we each are assigned our own horse and we
have to get them ready as they would be at
a show for a specific discipline which is really fun.
I used my horse and I am getting him ready
for a hunter show.
We also have a lab every week with Lindsay Kriss
where we work on different training methods,
such as longeing, ground driving and basic
mounting and breaking processes.
I would recommend this program to someone because it
covers a lot of material you don't learn just
working in a barn and the business part
of it is really helpful in starting
your own business as well.