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Meet The Instructors:
Stephie Baer has been teaching riding, training horses, and competing in three-day events and combined training events for over 35 years. She has trained numerous green horses, including several from green to 3 and 4-star levels. She is based out of Course Brook Farm located in Sherborn, MA. Stephie has competed through the advanced level, including 4-star events at Burghley CIC**** (England) and Rolex Kentucky CCI****. She also has competed at Fair Hill CCI***, Thirelston Castle CIC***(Scotland), Essex CCI**, Radnor CCI**, Bromont CCI** (Canada), and Quetero CCI** (Mexico). She has won Advanced divisions at Fair Hill, Morven Park, and Southern Pines. She was short-listed for the 1998 World Championships and trained with the American Team in England. She has also participated in several USET training sessions. Along with being a working student and employee of Bruce Davidson for over four years, Stephie has also trained with Capt. Mark Phillips, Jack LeGoff, Rick Sullivan, Lauren Stevens, Kathy Connolly, Sandy Osborne, and Arlene Full. She has attended clinics with Lucinda Green, Joey Darby, AnnKursinsky, Jane Savoy, Sandy Pflueger, Eric Horgan, and Jimmy Wofford.
Jane Hamlin is an active event and dressage rider, trainer, and coach based at Pirouette Farm in Norwich, Vermont. Her positive attitude, with an emphasis on teaching good basics, has produced successful riders at the beginner level to the Olympic level. She enjoys teaching both adult amateurs as well as young riders and is a popular clinician teaching at such clinics as the Area 1 Young Rider camp and the Junior Horsemanship Clinic at GMHA. In addition to her teaching, she brings along nice young horses with careful preparation and education. Jane holds both a USEF Event and Dressage Judge’s license as well as an FEI International Eventing Judge license.
Suzi Gornall has been an instructor at Young Rider camp for countless years and we are so lucky to have her returning for 2024. Suzi is an “A” Pony Club graduate and has competed through the Advanced level.
Currently, she specializes in bringing horses up through Preliminary to Intermediate/ 2* and 3* levels. She is fortunate to be able to continue her education by consistently taking regular lessons and attending clinics with many of the top horsemen. Her continued education, combined with her years of experience teaching all levels of riders and their horses, gives her an impressive skill set to guide riders.
Suzi is also involved with the GMHA Junior Horsemanship Clinic along with having been a team selector for the North American Youth Championships.
Growing up in New Brunswick, Canada, and northern Maine along the U.S./Canadian border, John Bourgoin‘s riding life began with trail riding and competing in local Western horse shows. While attending college in Vermont, Bourgoin was introduced to the localhunter/jumper scene where he spent time learning how to ride in an English saddle and proceeded to enter the world of jumping horses. While boarding a horse at a local stable, Bourgoin also began volunteering and helping out with the Charlotte Pony Club. After nearly 40 years, he continues to be one of their main instructors and volunteers yearly for their annual Horse Trials. Bourgoin is still an active competitor and has developed and competed his own horses through every national level of the sport. He has also trained and coached riders from Beginner Novice to Advanced. For the last 25 years, he has been very involved in the Area I Young Rider program and several of his students have represented Area I as team members, earning team and individual medals at the North American Youth Championships. He continues to serve as a team selector and clinician for the program. In 2022, Bourgoin was the recipient of the Mike Huber Award from the USEA Foundation. Having retired from public school teaching after 38 years, Bourgoin now has the opportunity to work full-time with clients and their horses. Bourgoin and his wife, Alice, own and operate Arbrook Farm in North Ferrisburgh, Vermont.
Jan Byyny owns and manages Surefire Farm, a busy lesson, sales, and training business in Purcellville, Va., and actively competes at all levels of eventing. Consistently a top-ranked international rider, Jan’s career highlights include representing the U.S. at the Pan-American
Championships, where she won team gold and individual bronze, being a member of the Aachen World Equestrian Games squad, competing on U.S. Equestrian teams at Malmo, Sweden, and Luhmuhlen, Germany, and being selected as a team alternate for the Athens Olympics. Jan also has numerous top ten placings at Rolex Kentucky, Foxhall, Jersey Fresh, Bromont, and Morven Park CCIs, and won the 2013 USEF National 3-star Championship at Fair Hill. In addition, she has competed at Burghley, Badminton, and Blenheim in England and Pau in France.
Jan is active in the United States Eventing Association as an advisor to the Young Riders and Juniors Committee, is a Level IV ICP instructor, serves on the United States Equestrian Federation’s Eventing Sport Committee as an Elected Athlete and in 2017 was named a USEF Eventing Selector.
Lauren Mair grew up just miles from GMHA and was an active member of the Area 1 Young Rider program from 2006-2010. As a young rider, she trained with and worked for both Sue Berrill and Jane Hamlin. After graduating from the University of Vermont, Lauren began a working student position with Lauren Kieffer (now Nicholson) in Ocala, Florida. What started as a six-month commitment gradually became a 5-year career. During that time, Lauren acted as an assistant rider, traveling FEI groom, and barn manager. After working for Lauren Kieffer, she moved on to work as an assistant rider and groom for Lynn Symansky. In 2021, Lauren set off on her own to pursue her certification in equine sports massage in the Wilson-Meagher Method. She now owns and operates Ascutney Equine Services LLC, in which she offers equine sports massage, lessons, training, and freelance grooming. Lauren is passionate about helping young riders from across Area 1, gain access to learning opportunities (both in the saddle and out!).
