Anne gribbons dressage clinic charlotte ny

My grandpa would select a horse, bridle it and put me up on it, bareback. Some of the horses were kind and sort of watched out for me, while others were not so generous and had some pretty good tricks. I think I fell off almost every day at first, but Grandpa would dust me off and put me right back up there. The little girl held these horse-filled moments close when she returned to her home in Gothenburg, the second-largest city in Sweden.

She took the tram to the stable nearly every day after school just to groom her favorites.

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Under their tutelage, she learned to sit properly at all gaits and put the horses on the bit. As time went on, several boarders at the stable allowed her to ride and show their own private mounts. After passing the baccalaureate, Anne was granted a year-long scholarship to study at C. In her second-semester English class, Anne met David Gribbons.

The pair soon began dating, but at the end of the semester Anne returned to Sweden to further her studies at the University of Gothenburg. The land, which had once served as a dairy and vegetable farm, would subsequently be transformed into a successful riding stable. While I was back in Sweden, David took in a couple of boarders and it just grew from there.

Neither of us intended for our future to be in the horse business, but it took on a life of its own and swept us along. While Anne had originally intended to pursue a Ph. We built an indoor—the second ever on Long Island—and we stood stallions, and David ran the breeding operation. Within a couple of years, Knoll Farm would grow to house over 70 horses.

It was around this time that Anne made the decision to focus solely on dressage.