Effective Dressage Training for Horse & Rider in Southern Oregon
About Ellie
Elizabeth Brown (Ellie) is a USDF Silver Medalist from Southern Oregon, who has had a passion for studying dressage from a young age. She has taken multiple client's horses to FEI with confirmed piaffe and passage, and has earned many champion, reserve champion, and high point awards . It is her life's passion to uncomplicate the nature of training the dressage horse.
Ellie started riding as a six year old girl, on a Shetland pony that she found wandering loose in the foothills of Southern Oregon. By age nine, and several ponies later, she began dressage lessons with a local FEI trainer. With the support and many sacrifices from her parents, Ellie showed her ponies up and down the west coast throughout her childhood and enjoyed success as a young rider. At age twelve, she was the Oregon State Dressage Champion in Training and First levels on a pony she had trained herself that was two inches downhill.
As a teen, Ellie, determined to pursue her passion for horses and dressage, began home-schooling herself and created her own high-school career, finding green or unbroke ponies and schooling them as hunter show ponies. Her ponies were sold all across the country and were known for their ride-ability and kid-worthiness.
“Ellie sets ambitious goals for improvement and has a plan for how she expects us to get there
-Bryan C”
Taking several years off from full-time training early in adulthood to marry and start her family, Ellie later became assistant trainer at a dressage training and show facility, schooling many horses of all levels, shapes, and sizes. She also had the pivotal experience of riding under the instruction of Jeffery Ashton Moore, to whom she credits many of her training theories.
Following her years as assistant trainer, Ellie became the head trainer for a Haflinger breeder where she trained and campaigned the imported stallion Maximotion WSF, bringing him from “barely broke”, to a competition sensation at Prix St Georges with confirmed piaffe, passage, and tempi's. Ellie and Max accomplished this in 4 years of training, before he was sold as an AA mount.
Ellie has cultivated a deep and passionate appreciation for teaching dressage in a vivid and tangible way, and her students appreciate how understanding the bio-mechanics of the horse and rider, along with a clear way of communicating with the horse, they are able to achieve results that surpass their expectations. Horses and riders from all back-grounds are welcomed- Ellie cherishes the opportunity to help all horses progress, from simple trail and pleasure, to competitive FEI. She is also enjoying pursuits in Western Dressage and Working Equitation. Children, beginning adults, and ponies are always welcome.