April 13, 2026

Heather Pettit – heather_at_syzygyfarm
April 13, 2026 @ 12:00 pm EDT

Heather serves as the breeding manager at Syzygy Farm in Arizona, a facility dedicated to Rare Breed Conservation. She specializes in producing Irish Draughts and Sport Horses, with a focus on rare Thoroughbred sport lines. Outside the barn, Heather enjoys attending horse trials with her homebreds, taking long trail rides through the mountains surrounding Tucson, and diving into the latest equine science study. She currently stands two stallions, Niles & Larry, who are learning tricks using positive reinforcement training methods. Heather shares updates, insights, and behind-the-scenes moments with them on her social channels.

Vanessa Saccomani – vanessa.saccomani
April 13, 2026 @ 4:00 pm EDT

Vanessa is an Equine Canada licensed coach and Rider Level Evaluator. She currently teaches and trains out of several barns in the Chilliwack area. Before moving to British Columbia, she toured with Cavalia Odysseo and later worked as a full-time trainer with the RCMP Musical Ride. Her focus is on bringing a more holistic approach to horse care and training by seeking the root causes behind unwanted behaviours rather than simply correcting them. Most challenges can be understood through the lens of a horse’s core nature: freedom, forage, and friends. Another important layer of analysis involves collaborating with specialized professionals beyond the veterinarian and farrier, including bodyworkers, nutritionists, homeopaths, saddle fitters, and bridle or bit fitters. She is fortunate to have such a knowledgeable and supportive team to lean on and learn from. This fall, Vanessa hopes to complete training in equine-assisted learning so she can work alongside active and retired first responders.

April 14, 2026

Madeline Boast – balancedbaynutrition
April 14, 2026 @ 3:15 pm EDT

Madeline is an independent equine nutritionist based in Ontario. With a passion for improving equine well-being, she began her educational journey with a bachelor’s degree in equine management at the University of Guelph. During this degree, her beloved mare Piper struggled with weight loss after an injury, which heightened her interest in nutrition. Madeline pursued a master’s degree in equine nutrition at the University of Guelph. She then launched Balanced Bay, a full-service equine nutrition consulting company dedicated to working one-on-one with the horse owner to curate optimal, personalized nutrition plans that are practical to implement. Through Balanced Bay, she has worked with hundreds of horses across North America and globally. Her primary focus is to create optimal and personalized forage-based nutrition plans while educating horse owners on equine nutrition.

April 15, 2026

Grace Carter – breezy_grace1
April 15, 2026 @ 2:00 pm EDT

Grace Carter has 4 Junior Limited Distance National Championships and 4 Midwest High Point Junior Titles. She has accumulated over 4,000 competition miles throughout her career. Grace currently has four endurance horses, two Purebred Arabians, a BLM Mustang and a Part-bred Arabian. She enjoys travelling with her horses to compete and explore the trails.

Madeline Byrd – controlhaltdelete
April 15, 2026 @ 4:00 pm EDT

Madeline started her riding journey around 10 and found herself with an OTTB around 15. They dabbled in local shows but stuck to trail rides and in-hand work. Shortly after losing her heart horse, a young quarter horse fell into her lap. Hundreds of miles on the trails later, they found their love for eventing and will hopefully make their BN debut this season, maybe with a little yellow horse named Pickle Chip in tow.

April 16, 2026

Heidi Kucera – knabstrupperstallion
April 16, 2026 @ 1:00 pm EDT

Heidi describes herself as an extreme horse hobbyist and has owned and ridden horses her entire life. Horses have always been her greatest passion. Heidi is a former division-one athlete (swimmer and water polo player) and has a PhD in Pharmacology and Toxicology from UC Davis. Even though Heidi has owned and ridden horses her whole life, she never understood how to check if a saddle truly fit her horses until watching educational content on saddle fit that introduced her to the concept of the saddle support area and why the horse needs a saddle.

Ellie Bounds – ellequii
April 16, 2026 @ 2:00 pm EDT

Ellie is 27 years old and works full-time with horses. She is currently working with and training parade horses, but started her career working with youngsters. Ellie is a trained equine massage therapist with a keen interest in biomechanics. She is a strong advocate for horse welfare and aims to push the sport toward more ethical treatment of horses where their well-being genuinely comes first.

April 21, 2026

Michelle Wellman – womanofhorses
April 21, 2026 @ 3:00 pm EDT

Michelle Wellman is a certified equestrian professional and equine massage therapist offering her services nationwide. The owner of Woman of Horses LLC, Michelle, provides teaching, training and equestrian massage for riders and horses of all experience levels. She is an alumna of the Meredith Manor International Equestrian Center, where she graduated top of her class and later served as head of the jumping program for seven years. She has also operated My Pony Club in India and most recently served as Facility Manager at Stony Hill Stables in the Hamptons.

April 22, 2026

Josepha Guillame – josepha_guillaume
April 22, 2026 @ 10:15 am EDT

Josepha Guillaume has been rehabilitating horses through classical in-hand dressage combined with positive reinforcement for over three decades. As an international educator for more than 20 years, she is the founder of the Equus Universalis Institute and an award-winning equestrian writer published in multiple languages. She is also the driving force behind the Yellow Horse Revolution, a global movement raising awareness of the horse’s five basic needs: Freedom, Friends, Forage, Force-Free, and Free Feet.

Scout & Michelle Murphy – scoutstrail
April 22, 2026 @ 1:00 pm EDT

Michelle and her daughter, Scout, began travelling full-time with their three horses and two dogs in 2019, riding across the United States to support their mental health through wilderness riding. They now also work with wild-born Mustangs, helping to ‘gentle’ them and prepare them for adoption into permanent homes.

McKrell Baier – usequestriansociety
April 22, 2026 @ 2:00 pm EDT

McKrell is the Director of the BridgeUP GiddyUP Program and Co-Founder of the U.S. Equestrian Society, together with her husband, Christian Baier. They have spent the past 16 years developing equestrian education and riding school opportunities in the United States and internationally.

Samantha Scargill – animal.athlete.phys
April 22, 2026 @ 5:00 pm EDT

Samantha Scargill is originally from the UK but currently works in Sydney, Australia. She has qualifications in Animal Physiotherapy and Equine Osteopathy and uses a combination of these approaches to maintain the equine athlete.

April 23, 2026

Chilli – connecting_with_connie
April 23, 2026 @ 9:30 am EDT – Bio TBD

Bridget Sidlovsky – bridgetsidlovskyequestrian
April 23, 2026 @ 12:00 pm EDT

Bridget has been riding since she was six years old. After starting in the hunter/jumper world in New England and competing on an IHSA team in college, she later purchased a horse named Roman, who challenged her understanding of horsemanship and equine welfare. Their journey together has included liberty training, showjumping, eventing, trail riding and fox hunting, sometimes even tackless.

April 29, 2026

Meadow Lane Equine Clinic – meadow_lane_equine
April 29, 2026 @ 10:30 am EDT

Meadow Lane Equine Clinic is based outside of Vancouver, Canada and operates as a three-veterinarian equine practice focused on sports horse medicine. The veterinarians are certified in advanced musculoskeletal ultrasound (ISELP), acupuncture, chiropractic, and FEI treating veterinary care.

Alesia Willard – rudniktheroan
April 29, 2026 @ 2:00 pm EDT

Alesia has been riding most of her life and has successfully started many horses. In 2019, she adopted an untouchable 11-month-old colt rescued from a livestock auction and trained him from halter work through saddle starting. Her approach emphasizes patience, trust, and positive training methods, building a willing partnership between horse and rider.