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Olivia-Daisy Collins grew up riding and taking lessons. She bought her own horse at the age of 13 with money she had saved from cleaning stalls. Her first horses name is Ladybug and her business is appropriately named after her. She spent most of her teenage years showing in local shows and fall fair on any horse available.
She is a graduate of the two year Equine Studies Program at Kemptville College. Daisy has her CEF rider level 3 and her theory for becoming a CEF level one coach.
Daisy decided to broaden her knowledge by working at the thoroughbred race track for trainer Mark Frostad and Sam Son Farm. She traveled to Fairground Race Course in New Orleans, Louisiana; Keenland Race Course in Lexington, Kentucky; and Woodbine Race Track in Toronto, Ontario.
While in New Orleans (2003) Daisy began riding and taking lessons at "Equest Farm", a large English hunter/jumper barn in the heart of the New Orleans "City Park". After Daisy returned to Canada the in spring of 2004 she was offered at job teaching at Equest Farm. She returned to New Orleans in the fall of 2004 and taught and trained in New Orleans until summer 2005, when she had to return home to continue running Ladybug Stables.
Between traveling and education, Daisy has taught lessons out of her own farm for the last five years. In 2003 she began training and traveling to other farms to teach. Presently (2008) Ladybug Stables has a total of 40 students and horses in training. Riders from Ladybug Stables have been successful in local, club and schooling shows.
Owner of Ladybug Stables, Olivia-Daisy Collins.
Jamie Pitt is not a coach but without him, Ladybug Stables would not run smoothly at all!
Jamie is our maintenance man/janitor/exercise rider/lumber jack/go-for/gardener/handy man/horse transporter/manure mover.
Jamie loves horses and has claimed Houdini as his own. Jamie is responsible for the raising of our addition that we added to the barn, building the new plank fence, re-flooring the barn and building the horses' shelter.
He is always improving the barn and property making it better for the horses and riding students.
Kristen Dowd is Ladybug Stables working student and camp councilor.
Kristen has been working at Ladybug Stables since 2007 as a stable girl and horse exerciser. She is learning how to teach beginner lessons so she can start teaching in 2009.
Kristen rode western before starting riding English in 2007 and now she rides all of the horses here. She shows at the local level on Fine Design aka. Lucy, Daisy Pony, Sir William Shakespeare, Ina Pickle and Mr. Madison.
Kristen is presently doing a co-operative education program through high school at Ladybug Stables to learn as much as she can about horses.
Josee is Ladybug Stables camp councilor and she occasionally teaches beginners riders. She is in her first year of college to become a veterinary technician so she will also be teaching the theory lessons at summer camp.
Josee competes at the local level with her horses, Gunner's Got It Pat and Batteries Not Included (Apollo). This year, she has hopes to compete on the Trillium circuit with Gunner and continue at the local level with Apollo.
Tanya Brown aboard Jerome, Senior Camp Councilor.
Tanya Brown is Ladybug Stables Senior Camp Councilor.
She is a graduate of Kemptville College's Equine Studies Diploma Program and she has 4 years experience working at Thoroughbred racetracks all over North America.
Tanya works as a landscape architect as a day job and works for Ladybug Stables camps and judges English schooling shows and trains her own horse in her spare time.
