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Agi
has a broad background
in training, teaching
and competing that
includes combined
training,
hunter/jumpers, driving
and dressage with a
diversity of breeds,
including Arabians,
Morgans, Thoroughbreds,
Draft Crosses and
Warmbloods. She has
enjoyed many years of
starting young horses,
as well as retraining
Thoroughbreds off of the
racetrack to compete in
combined training. Agi
competed to Preliminary
in combined training on
horses that she
retrained after their
careers on the racetrack
ended. During her years
competing in combined
training, Agi trained
with top eventing
trainers such as Derek
Di Grazia, Yves
Sauvignon, Noel
Parker-Ortiz, Don
Sachey, and Sally
O’Connor.
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In recent years,
Agi’s main focus has
been on instructing
students as well as
training and competing
horses in dressage.
Having earned her Bronze
medal in 2005, and
working towards her goal
of Silver and Gold
medals, she continues to
enhance and develop her
knowledge as an
instructor and a
competitor by attending
USDF educational
programs. She pursues
ongoing education
through regular lessons,
workshops, and seminars
with trainers Elizabeth
Hendrix, Charles
DeKunffy, Conrad
Schumacher, Lilo Fore,
Axel Steiner, Mary
Wanless, and Sandy
Howard. Her students are
encouraged to attend
these educational
forums, as well, so that
they have the
opportunity to expand
their riding “horizons”.
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Agi
believes that in order to excel
in any discipline or sport, a
person must take an active role
in maintaining his or her own
physical fitness. In order for a
rider to “demonstrate” to the
horse the idea of self-carriage,
a rider must be in self-carriage
in their own body. Through
Pilates, swimming and aerobic
exercise, Agi works daily on the
fitness required of an excellent
rider. She encourages her
students to join her in
activities that will build their
fitness level so that they can
perform better as a rider and
achieve their goals in
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