Trainers: Lauren Meehan, Barbara Filipelli, Cooper Madden-Hennessey, Leslie Kogos & Peter Wylde Message from the Head Trainer:
The Kent Riding Program offers you the opportunity to develop and grow your passion and interest in riding in a co-educational setting. You have the opportunity to develop your equine skills in a variety of disciplines from the beginner to the most advanced. Kent’s riding
program offers training and expertise in equitation, jumpers, hunters, and combined training. You’ll be able to take advantage of 2 indoor and 3 outdoor rings, a grand prix field, a grass hunter field and a cross country course designed for beginner-novice through training level eventers. You have the choice to bring your own horse or to work with one of our “equine professors”. Our school horses set the standard for quality. Many have competed at the top of their discipline and offer a schoolmaster experience for their riders. Others will teach you how to ride from the beginning. When you ride at Kent you will have the best of our program and the best of your training program from home. If you come to us with an existing trainer we will work in partnership to create a program that builds on your experience and will best develop your riding skills. Kent’s training philosophy has its roots in classical horsemanship with the belief that the fundamentals must be achieved. It is not possible to create competent riders without the basics. Without straightness and forwardness and the ability to ride with a balanced seat and an independent leg, the rider will not progress. The great horsemen have mastered these fundamentals. There are no secrets, just hard work.
