JOLENE PERRY: Owner, Trainer, Riding Coach

US Equestrian Federation PRO

USEF Safesport Certified

Insured by Chubb Agribusiness

Jolene started riding at the age of 7 and began professional lessons at the age of 11. Her first years riding were doing western and dressage but she soon moved into jumping with a dressage-based instructor. She won multiple state reserve championships and championships in jumper divisions, Zone 12 Horse of the Year, and several dressage high points during the early years of her show career.

Jolene worked at an Arabian breeding and training farm on and off for years, and she’s trained up every horse she’s ever owned for competition.

Her early years were spent training under Genny Wendall of Single Tree Farm, Katie Long of Moose Creek Ranch (Dressage), and Jenny Rousey of Northgate Farm for dressage-based Hunter/Jumper (now at Smoke Tree Ranch in Scottsdale, AZ).

Jolene was fortunate to ride in jumper clinics hosted by olympic medal holders Ian Miller and Greg Best. And enjoys doing touch-ups from several California-based instructors.

For the past several years, Jolene has worked under and alongside Jennifer Weber Chappell as both a trainer and riding coach. Jennifer’s qualifications are lengthy enough to insert this link instead of attempting to list them here. The short version is that Jennifer has earned her silver medal in dressage on a homegrown horse, is a John Lyons certified trainer, and has more than 40 years of experience training horses in every discipline. With Jennifer, Jolene has had the opportunity to train horses as they’re first being started as well as working with horses preparing for upper-level Dressage.

She is happy to teach western, english, and dressage as well as general horsemanship skills.

Jolene also has five years of public teaching experience (middle and high school), regularly guest lectures in creative writing courses at the college level, teaches at writing conferences and retreats, and has over fifteen years’ experience coaching equestrians.

Jolene leans heavily into Sally Swift’s Centered Riding as well as Sylvia Loch’s gentle approach to riding, training, and dressage.

Jolene’s background is varied, the disciplines she rides in are varied. She wouldn’t have it any other way. There is something to be learned from every category of horsemanship. Jolene is a lifelong learner and method explorer.

Feel free to reach out with any questions or to schedule a lesson.

CompassLineEquestrian@gmail or 970-753-6546

Rachael VanWinkle: Riding Coach and Horse Trainer

US Equestrian Federation PRO

USEF Safesport Certified

Insured by Markel Insurance

Born and raised outside of Fruita, Rachael is a Western CO native. Horses run deep in her blood, raised by a cowboy father and a mother that had done everything from showing Morgans and jumping OTTBs to playing Polo for CSU.

Rachael became the black sheep among her siblings when she made the decision to leave the rodeo world at the age of 10 and take up three day eventing and Pony Club. Rachael finished Pony club in 2013 as a C1 and began riding at Gemini Farms in Rush Valley, UT under Todd and Adrienne Smyrl.

Spending the next five years as a working student at Gemini Farms, Rachael competed up to the preliminary level in USEA, competed in 1.10m show jumping through USHJA, and had the opportunity to help start young performance horses.

Giving lessons during the school year, Rachael began to love coaching as much as she did showing. She has been giving lessons for 10 years and is currently accepting beginner to advanced students.

When she is not at the barn, Rachael can be found coaching volleyball, editing for Waypoint Authors, or at the dragstrip playing pit crew for her husband Cody as he races their 1972 Camaro.

Feel free to reach out with any questions or to schedule a lesson.

RachaelMHaas@gmail.com or 970-753-6546