Welcome to Sandi Forester The Powder Forest 770 957-5180
Dressage and Natural Horsemanship
Sandi Forester has been a trainer and instructor for 50 years and has gained respect and admiration as a talented trainer and horsewoman.
She began her career working with hunters and training with accomplished horsewoman Barbara Frigon training, showing and fox hunting.
Her first teaching assignment was at Melanie Tenney's Woodcock Hill Riding Academy in W. Willington, Connecticut. Exposure to combined training provided a new challenge. She was involved in teaching, training, and competing while continuing her own equestrian education through Melanie and fine clinicians Janet Black, Denney Emerson, Locke Richards, and David Hunt. It was during this time that Sandi's passion for classical dressage blossomed.
Later, Sandi began training with Beth Baumert and Pam Goodrich. During this time, Sandi's free-lance training commenced. After several years of exposure to many different training challenges, Sandi and former partner Mike Marquez opened a 30-stall training, breeding, and show facility. Mike's "Vaquero" style of riding combined with Sandi's classical dressage training allowed a successful combination of both Western and English riding. Using the same principals for all discipline basics developed many champion horses and students.
Sandi's show career expands two decades showing in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, New York, Kentucky, Georgia, and Canada. Her accomplishments include numerous awards in dressage, combined training, and western riding. She achieved many Hi-Point awards and championships at Region 16 and Region 18 Championship shows. Sandi qualified three different horses for national dressage competition at the same regional championship show. All three horses were young stallions in their first year of competition. Two of her own horses became Regional Champions in Dressage, Stock Horse, and Western Pleasure. One of those stallions was champion in both dressage and stock horse at the same competition.
Her students' accomplishments have included championships in dressage, english pleasure, stock horse, stock seat equitation, western pleasure, gaited horse dressage and trail. Her students hail from up and down the East Coast, from New Hampshire to Florida.
Sandi has had the opportunity to work with and learn from some of the top equestrians in the world. Her Teachers and Mentors include the following:
- Barbara Frigon (Hunters, Fox Hunting, Show – Enfield, CT);
- Melanie Tenney; Woodcock Hill Riding Academy, W. Willington, Connecticut
- Janet Black (Dressage, RI)
- Denney Emerson (Combined Training / VT)
- Locke Richards (Australia - Combined Training)
- David Hunt (England – Dressage)
- Beth Baumert (Dressage – CT)
- Pam Goodrich (Dressage – Canada, FL)
Sandi's Training Approach
Sandi Foresters offers a unique training opportunity for the horseman who wants to develop a true partnership with their horse. Sandi works with individual horse owners who are interested in learning to train their own horse. Training sessions are customized to help you meet your goals, with the utmost courtesy, care, and respect for both horse and rider. Using Classical Dressage combined with Natural Horsemanship Sandi uses a soft and gentle approach. All Breeds, All Styles, All Levels - Show or Pleasure. Located in McDonough, Georgia, The Powder Forest is only 30 minutes from Southeast Atlanta and easily accessible to Stockbridge, Jonesboro, Conyers, Griffin, and Fayetteville
My desire as a trainer and instructor is to bring horse and rider to a place of true harmony through careful development of the correct basics and through understanding of the horse both physically and psychologically
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