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Meet the Team

Dressage Trainer: Kaitlin Blythe

Kaitlin operates Kaitlin Blythe Dressage in Rougemont, NC and Loxahatchee, FL in the winter.  Kaitlin specializes in developing young horses up the levels, and teaching their owners to ride them effectively. Kaitlin has goals of representing her country on international teams, and is developing a string of horses with the potential to do so. Kaitlin’s accomplishments include training multiple horses to Grand Prix level, numerous plannings at the Festival of Champions and the National Young Horse Championships, earning team and individuals medals in U25 Nations cup competition, and winning the 2017 U25 Grand Prix national championships.

Currently, she is developing Szynergy. He is a 2018 Black Hanoverian gelding (Sezuan x Amperetta) acquired by Pura Vida Farm in 2021 with the goal of developing him for top sport.  Right now he is in Wellington for the 2024 season until April

Young Horse Trainer: Danielle Akin Sintoni

Danielle is a USDF Bronze, Silver, and Gold medalist with a passion for bringing up young horses. Her career started as a working student for Conrad Schumacher's Farm, Hofgut Neuhof, in Dreieich, Germany. While she was there she worked for and alongside Conrad Schumacher, Ellen Bontje, and Sven Rothenberger. Back in the US she warmed up horses for Margie Goldenstiein-Engle at the Winter Equestrian Festival in Wellington before opening her own farm with Rene in Ontario, CAN and then Newberry, FL. The facility in Ontario was accredited for AI to collect and freeze stallions for import or export.  

Danielle's training system produces sound, willing partners that want to try their best because they are treated fairly. She has a very extensive resume including numerous Horse of the Year awards and bringing previously problematic horses to the upper levels. She is based out of Windswept Farm in Huntersville, North Carolina.

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Dressage Trainer: Rachel Chowanec Kaney

Rachel Kaney started working with Lendon Gray when I was 8, and moved in to be her working student at 12. She had a very successful YR career with multiple top placings. She has been lucky enough to develop a few young horses up to GP. Rachel has her USDF Bronze, Silver, and Gold medals all with distinction. Her passion is developing happy horses up through the levels, and is has been working with  Charlotte Bredahl since 2019.

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Eventing Trainer: The Frame Sporthorses

Martin Douzant & Joe DeSantis

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CONTACT

Pura Vida Farms LLC

10812 Rougemont Rd, Bahama, NC 27503

+1-919-270-8395

ziemere@gmail.com

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