About Me
About Katie Kelly
Over a career spanning more then 30 years, Katie’s success in the show and dressage arenas has been nothing short of outstanding, with representing Australia in dressage being just one of her many achievements. Now Katie focuses her energy and passion for horses on the educating and training of horses and riders of all levels and ages. She combines her kind and calm approach together with the techniques learnt from her training with the very best in the business including 10 years training with Australia’s World Equestrian Games team member and multi Australian Grand Prix Champion Maurice Bruce, Clemens Dierks, Rozzie and Heath Ryan, Carlos De Cleermaecker Roger Fitzhardinge, Caroline Lieutenant, Brett Parbery, Jane Bruce and Gill Rogers.
Katie has had six trips to the UK attending show runs throughout England and Ireland including Ponies UK, Royal Windsor, Royal International (3 times), Kent County, New Forest County, London Riding Horse Show (in Hyde Park), just to name a few. Katie also represented Australia at the International Teams Challenge UK Supreme Dressage Championships held at Addington Manor in 2012. Katie has also had four trips to Ireland attending many Dressage and Eventing Championships.
In her own right she holds countless Australian National and State titles in both dressage and the show ring including Grand Champion Rider Canberra Royal Show, Champion and Reserve Championships at Sydney, Canberra and Bathurst Royals, multi NSW EA Horse of the Year Winner, NSW Rider of the Year and NSW Horse of the Year – EA Awards Night, Australian Pony Dressage Team Leader, Winner of Dressage and Hacking in the UK, and perhaps most notably as trainer of pony Murrum Park Phantom from show pony to Multi-Champion Prix St George Dressage Pony, later making the British Dressage Squad. Katie’s students and the ponies she has trained have amassed thousands of championships at Royal Shows, Horse of the Year Shows, National Breed Shows, National and State Pony Dressage, Interschools, PC State Dressage, State Show Riding and gymkhanas, and Represented Australia in Dressage, with the dressage ponies she has trained having gone on to be selected on the NSW, Queensland and British Squads and the RDA National Team.
In both her teaching and training her focus is on confidence building, good sportsmanship, safety, ring craft and having fun!
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England 2012
England 2012 NPS Supreme National Championships and International Challenge The National Pony Society (UK) Invited the Riding Pony Stud Book Society of Australia to select a Team of elite Pony Dressage riders to represent Australia in the UK International Teams Challenge at the NPS Supreme National Dressage Championships in England. Katie was selected as the Australian Team Leader with Katie’s long time student, 14 year old Harry Rainnie, initially being selected as a reserve for the Australian Junior team. Harry was granted the opportunity to compete in the friendship team comprising two Australians and two English riders, and he certainly demonstrated his talent and capability as a rider. Riding Breisha Subachus’ “Under the Stars” he went on to win the International Teams Challenge, placing highly in his individual tests (4th Sports Pony Novice and 5th Sports Pony Preliminary) in which he was the youngest competitor and the most successful member of the Australian Team. Katie, as leader of the Australian Senior Team, rode Amanda and Kate Marfleet’s super successful Show Hunter Pony Valentino III to finish 2nd in the Sports Pony Preliminary Test with 68%, only 2% behind the eventual Supreme Champion Dressage Pony of the Championships. Unfortunately, the weather took a turn for the worst for the Novice test and it hailed heavily. Despite the trying conditions, they still went on to place in the test. Both Under the Stars and Valentino III are half siblings to the legendary World Record holder Moorlands Tortillas. Mount Mascal Easter Indoor Dressage Competition – Essex Amanda Marfleet kindly took Katie and Harry to the Mount Mascal Indoor Dressage Competition as a warm up and a practice for the International Challenge. In the first test, they were thrilled to tie for first place on 70% in the Preliminary 13. In their second test, British Eventing Dressage Test, Katie took out 1st place on 72% with Harry finishing in 2nd place 66.5%. Valley Forge Mini Equestrian Trec Essex, England Trec is a competition that comprises of three sections – control of paces, a 16 phase obstacle course, and orienteering on horse back. This was Katie’s first attempt at Trec. Riding exported Australian Riding Pony and past Grand National Champion Oaklands Park Phantom of the Opera, Katie went on to take out the highest individual score and win the Novice Trec Pairs competition with Amanda Marfleet riding Valentino III.
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