Katie Young - Owner / Trainer

Katie Young has been actively involved in the horse business for over 40 years. She worked at riding stables in Menlo Park, CA throughout her childhood. Wanting to become a professional she enrolled in the horse master school at Pacific Horse Center which was directed by Larry Langer in Sacramento, Ca in 1976. After completing her courses she worked under Larry for the following five years as Barn Manager, Assistant Instructor/Trainer and Horse Master Instructor. Since then she has had successful Hunter/Jumper training businesses throughout the South and began Coriander Farm in Jacksonville in 1992. Her students have had many successes locally, regionally and nationally. Among those successes were her daughter Megan's wins of the North American Equitation Championship, USEF Medal Finals and ASPCA Maclay Finals. Katie is a Registered USEF Hunter, Hunter Breeding, Jumper and Hunter Seat Equitation Judge. She serves on the boards of the North Florida Hunter Jumper Association and the United States Hunter Jumper Association, for which she organizes several clinics to promote horsemanship and education. She believes that tailoring services to meet the needs of her individual clients has been the key to maintaining a successful business throughout the years.

She says the best thing about being in the business is the enjoyment she gets from participating in the overall development of confidence and self esteem in so many young and dedicated riders.

Megan Young - Associate Trainer / Rider

Megan is Katie's daughter and has grown up riding horses. At age 23 she has more than 20 years of experience showing and training horses. Her accomplishments include winning the R.W. Mutch Equitation Championship at Devon, Junior Hunter Championship at Devon, Harrisburg, Washington International Horse Show and at the National Horse Show in New York, Best Child Rider on a horse at Harrisburg and the National Horse Show, she placed 3rd in the USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Finals, won the North American Equitation Championship at The Capital Challenge, won the USEF Medal Finals in Harrisburg and the ASPCA Maclay Finals in New York.

Megan rode and trained professionally for Quiet Hill Farm and Rolling Acres Farm while attending the University of Florida.

Since graduating from UF she has brought a lot of fresh ideas to our riding program and is helping us to "raise the bar" in our overall curriculum.

Nashea Powell Rowland - Associate Trainer / Rider

Nashea has loved horses since she was eight years old and lived next door to a Hunter/Jumper show facility. She started with lessons there and soon owned her first horse "The Sound of Music". Together they learned the ropes and were famous in the Junior Hunter division at "A" shows throughout the southeast. When she was fourteen she got her second horse, a jumper named "The Wiz". Nashea's talent qualified her and both of her horses to compete in the Junior Hunters, USEF Medal Finals, Jumpers and Amateur Owner Hunters at the Pennsylvania National Horse Show in Harrisburg, PA three consecutive years. Nashea earned ribbons in the hunters on "The Sound of Music" was Champion of the North American League Jumper Finals on "The Wiz" in 2001 and placed fourth in 2002. She has earned many hunter championships at "AA" shows since she became a professional rider in 2003.

Nashea's love of the sport is reflected in her rapport with students of all ages and all levels. She makes learning to ride fun!

Kate Dempsey - Associate Trainer/Rider

Kate started out at age nine in the short stirrup on Shenandoah's Sun Shadow and was Champion nearly every time out. That was just the beginning of a stellar riding career. She moved onto the Large pony Happy Camper who was a bit of a handful in the beginning, but under the training of Debby Gibson and Christina Schlusemeyer Kate transformed Happy into a mount that she would win classes and titles at National Horse Shows including The Devon Country Fair and Horse Show.

As a teenager she lived at Quiet Hill Farm riding with Schlusemeyer and Bob Braswell where she could focus on her Junior Horses, Monticello, Whitaker, Embassy Row, and Tortuga all of whom took winning honors with Kate in the irons in the Hunters and the Equitation at competitions such as Pennsylvania National Horse Show and the Washington International Horse Show. She stepped up quickly to do the jumpers. She started with the world champion event horse Ask Away. She had many successes on this wonderful horse including winning the $25,000 children's jumper class at HITS. She took to the jumpers and had the opportunity to ride with Grand Prix rider Todd Minikus. She rode the quirky horse Celebrate to wins and placings in the junior jumpers and in several Grand Prix's across the East Coast, She graduated from Pratt Institute in NYC 2005 and has been riding professionally since.

Kate is a great cheer leader when the kids need encouragement and is quick to find solutions to move students forward correctly.