Providing elite training and sales in the Pacific Northwest.

Accomplishments

2018 Champion at the White Fences Championship Series for the Intermediate II Open

2018 World Equestrian Games Para Team Member Assistant

2019 Iron Spring Farm Developing Horse Prix St George Open Champion

2021 Regional Champion for Prix St George Open

2021 Invited to USDF Championships aboard Baccos Do Retiro

2023 Coach to NAYC Team member Gold and Individual Bronze Medals Junior Division

2023 Developing the youngest Friesian in North America to Sport Elite

2024 Iron Spring Farm IBOP Cup

2024 Coach to NAYC Team member Young Riders Division

2024 Securing the 3rd highest KFPS IBOP globally

2024 Developing the stallion Djurre ut’t Westen to AAA & Ster status

2024 Reserve Champion USDF All-Breeds

2024 Invited to USDF Championships aboard Djurre ut’t Westen Sport Elite AAA

2025 Champion USDF All-Breeds

2025 3rd Placing at USEF Festival of Champions

Michell Haefer is a USDF Silver and Gold medalist with distinction and FEI professional training horses and riders from beginner to Grand Prix.

Throughout her career she has honed her skills in both high-performance dressage and natural horsemanship, including them into her training program to develop well-rounded horses for amateurs and professionals.

In the pursuit of her love of dressage, Michelle trained under Grand Prix rider Carole Novitske at age sixteen and later moved to New Jersey in 2012 to work under international competitor and two-time World Cup rider Catherine Haddad Staller.

As an assistant trainer and stable manager, Michelle managed a large operation with clients and horses of all levels. She started young sport horses under saddle and brought many horses up through the FEI levels as well as competing and training sales and clientele horses. Michelle was at this time able to earn both her USDF Silver and Gold medals in Wellington, Florida.

Michelle has worked in the FEI circuit in New Jersey, Florida and Europe, traveling extensively to manage FEI horses at an elite level and has trained with other renowned riders and clinicians. In 2020, she returned to Oregon to start her own dressage business in her home state and has developed a thriving professional training program based in West Linn, Oregon.

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