About FDT

Bringing over 20 years of horse training expertise, Farah DeJohnette’s talent in competitive horse training

blended

with

her

Natural Horsemanship and Holistic programs, make her a uniquely skilled Trainer.

Spending the better part of her youth taking lessons, working, and apprenticing for various local trainers in

the

Woodstock

area, Farah began her first intensive apprenticeship with the Williamsburg Farm in 1995,

home to the

great

Olympic stallion

Abdullah and state of the art breeding operation. While competing and

training some of their

young

stock, Farah began

learning all the aspects of the professional equestrian

industry.

After working at Williamsburg Farm, she returned to the Woodstock, NY in 1996 to work part time for Pat

Jacobson,

Trainer,

Equine Author and Artist. At the same time, she continued to bring her warmblood mare,

Finessa along in her

training.

In order to keep advancing her career, Farah moved to Connecticut in 1998 and worked with Jenni Martin

and

Steve

Mccallister, successful Grand Prix Jumping rider and Trainers on the West coast circuit.

Moving to Miami Beach Florida in 1999, Farah continued her training by working with acclaimed Dressage

master,

John

Winnett, a seven-time Olympian in Dressage and Jumping, and his wife Roanne, a Top

Eventer.

Returning to Connecticut in the year 2000, Farah set up her own business, Farah Dejohnette Horse

Training. It

was then

that

she began working with Virginia Leary a top Eventer and Dressage competitor.

Farah still works

with Virginia when

she can,

and through her has most recently started working with Irish

Sport horses.

Farah has also studied intensively the following Master horseman who have had a huge impact on her

style,

approach

and

methods: Paul Belasik, Pat Parelli, Monty Roberts, Mary Wanless, Linda Tellington,

Clinton

Anderson, John Lyons,

Dennis Reis,

Chris Irwin, Richard Schrake, Anne Kursinski, Bill Dorrance,

Mark Rashid,

Alois Podhajski plus the many

clinics and lessons she

has attended.

Farah’s scope is broad and embraces many different methods. To sum it up simply, Farah’s approach is a

blend

of the

German

system meets Natural Horsemanship meets Balanced seat riding.

From Farah:

“I would like to state that it is my personal pledge to myself and my current and future customers to

continue to

learn,

grow, and stay open to new information and techniques so that I can be the best that I

can be.

I am not defined by one training method: I am a Trainer. There is only one kind of training and one kind of

riding.

It is

called Horsemanship. And that’s what I do. I study all disciplines and I learn and borrow from

each to create

a rich

knowledge base to draw from. This has allowed me the versatility to be able to work

successfully with all

types of

breeds,

temperaments, disciplines, and levels.

In the end, the horses have been the greatest trainers I’ve ever had. Too numerous to count, each horse

I've

worked with

has provided me with their own unique lesson. In fact, most of the things I learned about

life, I

learned in the presence

a horse.”

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