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Katie Stephens has been involved with horses for 24 years, starting at the age of 6. She was born in 1980, was educated at Pocklington School and did a degree at Oxford Brookes. She finished her full time education in 2003 and has now become a partner at Moor Farm and is managing the horse enterprise.
She came up through the ranks of Pony Club and has had many years of instruction from some of the top trainers in the country. She competed in JRNs, 3 day events up to CCI level and has represented Great Britain on the Student Rider team in Holland, Belgium, Ireland, Italy and Norway where the team won a Bronze medal.
More recently she has been selected by the British Pony Club HQ to chaperone PC Hunting Exchanges to the USA and Ireland. This has led on to being invited back to America in 2007, 2008 and 2009 to teach youngsters and to Ireland in 2010. She was Chef d'Equipe at the University Equestrian World Games and was the highest placed British rider at the Belgian SRNC 2006.
She hunts with the Middleton during the winter months, both in and out of the field, and Field Masters on occasion. Also hunts with the Island Foxhounds, County Wexford, Eire. She competes in British Eventing during the summer throughout the country with help from trainer Chris McGrann.
All her own horses are self produced, which shows the amount of time and expertise she has put into them.
It is with this solid grounding and experience, that Katie is now able to pass on her skills to young and mature riders, and has the ability to source the right pony or horse to suit a rider's abilities, so that they can progress and be as safe as possible.
Katie loves teaching and has got a special knack with youngsters, resulting in her being in great demand at the Pony Club rallies and for one to one lessons at Moor Farm.
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