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Anne Turk (nee Stevenson)
began her training at three in Edinburgh, Scotland. She rode under Patrick
Blackwood through her teenage years, and was a member of the Edinburgh
and District Riding Club and the Linlithgow and Stirlingshire Hunt. After
training to become a school teacher, Anne went to Trefor Riding School
in Anglesey, Wales to take an intensive six week training course on riding
and stable managemnet. Here, she took lessons from John McInerney, an
Irish Olympian, and Alison McInerney. She then trained with Mrs. Garside-Bates
in Shropshire where she passed her B.H.S.A.I. intensive instructors' examination.
During these years, Anne received an excellent grounding in dressage,
show jumping, cross-country, stable managment and horse mastership. While
living in the United Kingdom, Anne's other instructors included: Barbara
Slane-Flemming, a British Olympic dressage coach, Per Bogeland-Jensen,
a Danish Olympic team member, and Lady Mary Rose Williams, a UK show jumping
coarse designer.
Anne moved to East Africa in 1970 where she taught at Imani, an international co-ed school. She was also the resident riding instructor, managing 17 horses, 40 students, and 5 grooms. She and her students readily retrained and competed on ex-race horses. The show classes focused on were working hunter, show hunter, lady's hack, two day hunter trials, dressage, show jumping, and cross-country. In addition to her post at the school, Anne was chief instructor for Kabete Pony Club in Nairobi and chief instructor and District commissioner for the Thika Pony Club.
Since coming to America, Anne has been DC of Pine Trace Pony Club and is qualified to examine at the C3 level in the United States Pony Club. Anne, with her current dressage prospect, an eight-year old Andalusian gelding, still attends clinics given by Major Jeremy Beale, an eventer chosen for two Olympic games. In 1986, Anne began The Loriento Riding Academy at her home in Roopville, Georgia, where she now teaches her new crop of aspiring eventers. Anne believes in sharing her knowledge so that her students can build on sound, basic principles.
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