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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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