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ABOUT OUR TRAINERS 

 

Erin is a multi-disciplined professional trainer showing in many disciplines such as stock horse, ranch riding, AQHA breed shows, dressage, western dressage, hunter under saddle, hunter jumpers, sorting, and has started team roping. She is sponsored by BRL Equine Nutrition and M3 Hay Farm. Erin also competes in Arabian breed shows throughout Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. Erin has solid foundations and has also worked for top reining, cutting, and western pleasure trainers to create a well started horse with a strong partnership rather starting a colt or training an up and coming horse. 

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Erin has a passion for starting young horses, groundwork, desensitizing, finishing, training, tuning up horses, and showing. Erin also offers lessons in English and western. For more information on Erin's training and coaching philosophy please view the "Training and Marketing" Page or "Coaching and Lessons" Page.

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Erin was given the opportunity to compete on her past-sponsored mount PRE Stallion Sabio GF, owned by Deirdre Malburg, in the 2014 NAJYR Championships in Kentucky. She has been an assistant trainer for Deirdre Malburg at Salado Creek Riding Club/Deirdre Dressage and also taught lessons full time at McLennan Community College in Waco, Texas where she taught all levels of riders and a multitude of disciplines.  Erin has participated in clinics with Peter Madison Greenwell of El Caballo De Espana located in England, Pati Pierucci an International dressage rider, and several Young Rider clinics, including a Pas De Deux and Quadrille clinic, along with attending many speaking engagements. Erin helped her local USDF GMO by serving as president of the Central Texas Dressage Society Young Rider Board. The group was responsible for setting up activities, clinics, and scholarships for junior members of CTDS. She is also a professional athlete featured on the Experience Dressage website, affiliated with the United States Equestrian Federation. In addition to her riding activities, Erin worked as a veterinary technician at an equine veterinary practice. Her duties included assisting with routine veterinary care, mare care and breeding services, surgeries, emergencies, and farm calls. Erin has volunteered at R.E.A.C.H Therapeutic Riding Center schooling the therapeutic horses and helping children of all ages with disabilities and Wounded Warriors from many branches of the military gain confidence along with mental and physical strength through the riding of horses.

 

Erin has almost completed her USDF Bronze Medal and plans on working on her USDF Silver Medal once she obtains her Bronze. She plans to use her talented up-and-coming stallion MM El Alazon and her beloved gelding Netzoye HOT "Zozo" to obtain her medals along with many other goals and achievements. MM El Alazon will enter ECM Equestrian’s Breeding Stock and will be available for breeding to a few mares in the near future. Erin has also earned her performance awards for Training Level and First Level dressage.

 

Her current endeavors include going to college and earning a degree in Agricultural Services and Development with a minor in Marketing. She is also working towards certifications for personal training and soon to earn her degree in sports massage and holistic practices for the equine athlete and rider and also her saddle fitting certificate from the Netherlands. With this, she plans to create a well rounded system and knowledge base for equine athletes and their counterparts to be happier, healthier, and even more successful. 

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Justin Long

 

Team Roping Trainer

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Erin McNew

 

Head Trainer and Owner

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Justin Long high school rodeoed in team roping and calf roping from 2004-2008 and started making a name for himself early on. He was reserve champion in 2007-2008. He was also top 15 every year he competed. He joined the United States Navy in 2010 and served until 2015. Since graduating from college with an AAS and Electrical Power and Controls degree, Justin continued to compete in team roping. Justin currently competes in the OTRA, USTRC, and the World Series team roping's winning a little over $200,000 since 2007. Along with his winnings he also qualified to compete in the Team Roping World Series Finale in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2018.

Justin is sponsored by Top Hand Ropes and BRL Equine Nutrition. He enjoys training roping horses and working with young horses of all types. Some of his greatest qualities and strengths in training horses include patience, good communication, and the belief that good horsemanship must come before anything else.

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Justin's coaching style is very encouraging and upbeat giving the rider the confidence to set fourth on their personal goals in and out of the saddle. He has the ability to read each rider and horse and see them as an individual, each having their own mental and physical strengths and weaknesses. 

 

Justin believes that positivity is key in anything and everything you set fourth in!

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Justin's Coaching styles include:

  • Holistic Coaching-(seeing the rider and/or horse as a whole)

  • Performance coaching

  • Vision Coaching

  • Solution Coaching

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Justin offers western lessons, starting, desensitizing, tuning up horses and rope horses, groundwork and also complete roping training for the horse and rider.

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Hay Farm
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Combining the love for horses with a passion for excellence.

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