Testimonials

We have wonderful clients who give us great feedback about their progress with their horses. They never hesitate to ask questions when they're usure of how to handle something, and they love to let us know about their successes. Here is what they have to say:

Here is a recent e-mail that we were so happy to receive,
from a professional hunter trainer in the Tampa area. Her daughter's new horse was very aggressive, especially around food, and explosive under saddle:

Bobo came home fine. We really saw his improvement on Saturday when Jasmine got on to ride. She tacked him up with a couple of good disciplines then got on in the ring to ride. Right after she started, the horse in the pasture that directly surrounds the ring lost her mind, and started at a full gallop screaming around the ring. A momentary panic in Jazz's face, then she went directly to work. Bobo spooked briefly, Jasmine did a quick discipline, and then he was fine. Everyone was amazed. Before that, he would have literally been deadly to Jazz and everyone else in the ring. Today he was a perfect gentleman. The situation passed and no problems came up. Tonight when she went to blanket him, he had just been fed. She said, "back up, this is my space," he went to the back of the stall, she put the blanket on, had to adjust the straps under his belly, walked out, said, "ok," and only then did he slowly go back to his food.

In our business, people all to often tell us what we are doing wrong, but I want to thank the two of you from the bottom of my heart. The peace knowing that this is all possible is amazing.

Thank you and enjoy your weekend.

Sheri Walsh,
Oakcrest Hunters, Inc.
Odessa, Florida

I first met Anne nearly ten years ago. I had ridden western all of my life but had never taken formal lessons. For whatever reason and in my early 30s, I decided that I wanted to try english riding. I had custom red cowboy boots but longed to put on a pair of breeches and tall black boots and look like I stepped from a Ralph Lauren ad.

I've often said that I'm thankful that there were no witnesses to my first few lessons, other than Anne and me. She showed up with her Passier saddle and I struggled to stay in it. I couldn’t post a trot or keep my heels down and my "western legs" as she called them kept ending up in front of me. I remember how proud I was when I figured out how to change my diagonal.

Since those early days she has seen me through many milestones. We went to my first dressage show together. She was teaching me to jump when I fell off my mare and landed on my head; we spent the rest of the evening drinking Cosmopolitans and trying to calm down from the adrenalin rush. I bought several horses, without waiting for her opinion, and she just smiled and helped me work with their strengths and bring out the best in each.

She helped me choose a Thoroughbred mare and Irish Draught stallion to breed and was there when Darling Fiona was born. When Fiona was three, I sent her to Lynn’D Farm and Anne and Steve to be started under saddle. She continued her training for a year and a half until she returned to me this past January, solid in her ground manners and winning First Level Open dressage classes with Anne up.

Since bringing her home, Fiona and I have been to three shows this spring, including Dressage on the First Coast, a USDF/USEF recognized show. We received great scores from all three judges, including a 70.8% in a Training level qualifying class from the doyenne of dressage in the United Kingdom, Jennie Loriston-Clarke ("I").
Anne has seen me all the way through and given me the confidence to compete and win with my home bred filly. Fiona now has a half sister, Elle, and in a couple of years she, too, will be sent to Lynn’D Farm. I do not hesitate to entrust my horses to them and would recommend Anne and Steve to anyone who desires to teach their horses using correct and gentle training methods.

Martha L. Moore Saylor
Little Creek Ranch
Jacksonville, FL

I just wanted to say a huge thank you to Steven for his abilities in training. I sent my 3 year old gelding to Lynn'D Farms for training and have not regretted the decision for a second. My baby was a spoiled rotten scoundrel who knew how to work around me; Steven taught him manners, and taught me how to reinforce those manners. I do not ride as often as I used to, but I can go to the pasture after months of not riding and it's like riding him straight from training. I love the work that you guys do and tell everyone I can about you.

Sincerely,
Tammy Davis and HotRod

Hello, Anne and Steven,

I am not sure I can express the difference we saw in Dexter this weekend. Thursday's schooling, in the freezing cold rain began with Dexter being hot and spooky. Taylor refused to give up, and with Sheri's help, she kept Dexter focused in trotting figure eights for about 20 minutes as he fought with Taylor and spooked at the rain - and the puddles - and other horses - and everything that moved.

Then all of a sudden, he just seemed to give in. He just settled down and schooled beautifully with a quiet confidence that we have never seen before. Taylor would not stop cantering around the schooling arena... she was smiling and having fun! At one point, another horse spooked and ran into Dexter, but Dexter did not even flinch or change his pace. As we watched the collision happen, we all assumed Taylor was going to die, but Dexter did not react in any way. Taylor was loving her ride so much that Sheri had to finally demand that she put Dexter away before his legs fell off.

Dexter's schooling was extremely quiet, in more freezing cold rain, on Friday. And during the show on Saturday, they placed second out of 16 on the flat and third out of 16 over fences. Dexter has been "excused" from the ring on more than one occasion, so this was a HUGE, AMAZING success.

How do I thank you? We love Dexter dearly, yet we were not sure he was a safe mount for our daughter. It would have broken her heart to have to sell him. I never thought he would improve this much, this fast. Sheri was also amazed, and another trainer asked if Dexter was the same horse, or had we gotten a new one!

THANK YOU,
Annette

Steve and Anne,
It has been 4 months since she left your farm, and we just wanted to let you know how Dreamer is doing. We knew that we were investing in a project when we got our wooly, wormy, skinny, 12 year old mare from Christmas, Florida. We knew that she was sweet and quiet and willing. We also knew that she knew NOTHING. And we knew that she had never been asked to do anything, and because of that had NO muscle. We really didn't know what we were in for.

We saw such a better horse in her when she left you. Thank you for instilling in her great manners and trust. Thank you for evening out her trot. Thank you for teaching her to bend and flex and all that "horse jargon" that I don't even begin to know. What I do know is that Rebecca is having the time of her life. She loves Dreamer. They are a team. No one rides her the way she does. We are told by others who school her that she is "hard". She moves in an unusual gait, "sideways" is what they say. You mentioned a 4th gait. Yup, we know what you mean now. But with Rebecca, she is just beautiful. With a cute trot, she bends her head. Her canter is slow and steady. She is jumping courses as if she was bred to. It is just wild. She refuses NOTHING! She wants to please.
We did have some challenges, but fixed that by changing trainers. Now she is with Nancy Unger-Fink who adores her and thinks the world of her. She has faith that her "switching out" will be corrected soon, and is only a result of her just not knowing any better.

I just wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart. She is such a great pony. We wish you could see her. Rebecca says it often!
So for now, we will just send you some pictures.
Thank you both, again.
With admiration, Jenn and Rebecca, Peter and Max too.

Hello Steve,

My name is Mary O'Toole and I am a member of Lakeland Dressage Association. Do you remember my half holsteiner, half quarter horse named Warland? You used him as a demonstration horse for a clinic you gave.

Well, after many repeated attempts to load Warland into the trailer, something finally clicked in his head. He now walks into the trailer so smoothly that I am so astonished that it continues to work. Warland also automatically turns away from me when I am turnining him to his right. I do not even need to ask him. He just seems to know what I want.

I cannot thank you enough for your assistance with the trailer loading problem. My best to you and the Mrs.

Mary O'Toole
A happy trailer loader

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