Schleese Livestreams – February 2025

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• Anna Deli – https://www.instagram.com/anna_shp_hoofcare/ – February 3, 2025 @ 10:00 am EST
  Anna Deli is a certified barefoot hoof care professional and practices primarily in the Mediterranean region. She uses a variety of trimming methods to achieve the best results for barefoot horses. Anna was educated as an engineer and worked many years in the medical equipment and power plant industries. Now, Anna works with a variety of modern materials and the most developed hoof boot brands in her barefoot hoof care practice. She was initially certified as a Strasser Hoofcare Professional at the Institut of Gesundheit in Germany. Anna utilizes a holistic approach to provide the best care based on the current state of the horse and the hooves. She also provides thermography examinations.
• Sydney Steverson – https://www.instagram.com/bookipsies_/ – February 3, 2025 @ 3:15 pm EST
  Bio TBD

• Jenn Crawford – https://www.instagram.com/jenncrawford.eq/ – February 3, 2025 @ 4:15 pm EST
  On December 26th, 2018, the equestrian life Jenn had built abruptly ended due to a fall, leaving her with no feeling or movement from her hips down. She was in a spinal cord rehab for 4 months working hard at getting any and all strength back that she could, and she was told she’d likely never walk again. Six months later, she got back on her horse Beau, ready to start her new equestrian life. In the summer of 2023, Jennifer and Beau competed successfully at the Silver Series at Angelstone.

• Tara Graham – https://www.instagram.com/theequinebitfitter/ – February 13, 2025 @ 11:00 am EST
  Tara Graham has been captivated by horses for as long as she can remember. Tara trained in ‘bit and bridle fitting’, and studied equine craniosacral therapy learning more about the cranial nerves and structures of the horse, and developed a truly independent, anatomy-based approach to bit and bridle fitting. Her training in multiple modalities gives her a unique perspective and approach to fitting horses for their bits and bridles. Independent of brand training or alliances, she believes fitters need to know anatomy and ‘take it back to the horse’ to address their comfort in this often overlooked and confusing area of tack. Her method (TM pending) draws on her extensive training to assess not only the horse’s mouth, bit and bridle but also tension in the cranial structures, neck and sternum; all these factors affect the quality of our contact as riders. Despite a multitude of professional achievements, Tara remains incredibly down to earth. She is an approachable, fun educator who encourages questions and discussions during her presentations. Ultimately she remains a student of the horse and is known for her ‘feel’ around horses; possessing a remarkable ability to figure out a horse she just met and find the perfect bit for horse and rider.

•  Kate Kudelko – https://www.instagram.com/painted__dressage/  – February 19, 2025 @ 11:00 am EST
  Kate is a young professional based in Brooksville, Florida, specializing in training ponies, small horses, and rescues in dressage. Most of her client’s horses are paints and stock crosses, so she has run into her fair share of complications fitting horses who have very wide shoulders in comparison to the size of their body.

• Steffi Spielhaupter – https://www.instagram.com/scienceforsoundness/ – February 20, 2025 @ 2:30pm EST
  Steffi is an Equine Scientist (MSc) and Equine Therapist (ESMT). She provides support with individual journeys of conscious horse-human connection and personal growth by working with the nuances of equine soundness, always considering the health of the horse’s nervous system in the process. To Steffi, soundness is not just a word to describe a healthy and balanced horse, it is a way of living and interacting. Steffi has three horses who live in a herd environment. She loves how the environment and training help them become more expressive and connected. She knows how easily the balance of physical soundness can be thrown off by ill-fitting equipment. Steffi has struggled to find the right saddle fit for herself and her horses, and the Schleese philosophy has stood out to her.

• Scout – https://www.instagram.com/scoutstrail/ – February 20, 2025 @ 4:00 pm EST
  Bio TBA

• Bridget Sidlovsky – https://www.instagram.com/bridgetsidlovskyequestrian/ – February 21, 2025 @ 11:00 am EST
  Bridget has been riding since she was 6 years old. She started in the hunter/jumper world in New England and developed a love of competing from a young age. She rode on an IHSA team in college and after graduation went to Europe, where she saved and was able to buy her horse. Bridget bought Roman as a sales prospect, but it was soon clear that Roman had other ideas. He had some big issues and that led Bridget on quite the journey of horsemanship and equine welfare to solve them! Roman was “competition sour” and would rear, plant, back up and refuse to move at competitions. He had problems leaving his friends, loading into the trailer and going for trail rides on his own. Bridget and Roman have now not only conquered all of those hurdles, but they can now navigate a dressage test or a course of show jumps completely tackless. They do liberty training, showjumping, eventing, trail riding, fox hunting and more. Bridget is now back in the US and is a show-jumping barn manager. Thanks to Roman, Bridget approaches things very differently now. When working with “problem” horses, she often looks at helping them mentally and emotionally first. She likes to start with removing the tack and gadgets that people like to use to control their equine partners. This is part of why she is interested in the right fit for each piece of tack. Each horse is an individual and should have their individual wardrobe, just like people. 

• Shannon Spellacy – https://www.instagram.com/moonglowequinemassage/ – February 21, 2025 @ 3:00 pm EST
  Bio TBD

• Archie Cox – https://www.instagram.com/archiecox3/ – February 24, 2025 @ 2:30 am EST
  Horses have always loomed large in Archie’s life. As a junior rider on the East Coast, he was already competing at the national level; in 1985 he was the first male rider in ten years to win the United States Equestrian Team Gold Medal. He also earned ribbons at the AHSA Medal and ASPCA Maclay finals. Riding for the equestrian team at New Jersey’s Drew University, he repeatedly captured individual and team regional and national Intercollegiate Horse Show Associate titles. In 1992 Archie moved to California, where he worked with top trainer Karen Healey. In 2000 he opened his own business, Brookway Stables. He typically has thirty to thirty-five horses in training and twelve to fifteen students/clients, from pony riders to older amateurs. Archie is very grateful and proud of his students, horses and their success. Archie loves teaching and seeing the relationship between horse and rider develop.

• Kelsey Rast – https://www.instagram.com/redpoppyequine/ – February 24 @ 4:15 pm EST
  This is Kelsey of Red Poppy Equine. She works in all positive reinforcement training and works for a rescue in Middle Tennessee, as well as for herself. Her grandfather was a farmer and started her riding by going for trail rides when she was 2 years old. Kelsey has loved horses ever since. She has no specific discipline but believes in proper biomechanics and works closely with a horse and human physical therapist. This has helped her learn so much about equine movement and fitting a saddle, and she is constantly trying to expand her education. She loves what she does!

• Bevin Allison – https://www.instagram.com/apbeauregard/ – February 25, 2025 @ 3:00 pm EST
  Bevin has worked with horses in the UK and U.S., with her foundation in the UK in the late 90s studying under the BHS system. In 2000 she returned stateside and got her first horse, a Standardbred mare from auction who was surprisingly pregnant. She was the first horse Bevin backed and her foal was the first foal Bevin brought along. Since then Bevin has worked with many horses, and sometimes humans in various capacities. Her current horse Beau was out of a mare she’s had since around 2006. Beau is coming 7 in April and was just gelded. He’s registered both Half Arabian and Full Oldenburg and is a challenge to fit a saddle to.

• Bex Meadows – https://www.instagram.com/jaybirdequestrian/ – February 27, 2025 @ 2:30 pm EST
  Bex is getting certified in equine massage therapy and wants to combine that knowledge with saddle fitting. She is an equine student at Delval and hopes to start her own business after school to specialize in equine massage and bodywork. She is passionate about advocating for the mental and physical well-being of horses, specifically through positive reinforcement training. Bex would love to combine her background in massage and saddle fitting with training and exercise to help create happier and healthier horses.

• Tracey Evans & Dreamwinds graduates – https://www.instagram.com/dreamwindseal/ – February 27, 2025 @ 5:00 pm EST
  Bio TBD

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