User:Mlandry/Loriento Riding Academy

Anne Turk started riding at three in Edinburgh, Scotland. Patrick Blackwood was her instructor through her teenage years. She was also a member of the Edinburgh and District Riding Club and the Linlithgow and Stirlingshire Hunt. Anne went to Anglesey, Wales to begin her six week training on riding and stable management and began taking lessons from John McInerery, an Irish Olympian, and Alison McInerney. She then passed her B.H.S.A.I. instructors' examination in Shropshire and trained with Mr. Garside-Bates. Anne also trained with 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 in the UK. Anne had become an excellent rider in dressage, show jumping,and cross-country.

In 1970, Anne moved to East Africa where she taught at Imani, an international co-ed school. She managed 17 horses, 40 students, and 5 grooms as the resident riding insructor. She and her students retrained and competed on ex-race horses. Anne was also chief instructor for Kabete Pony Club in Nairobi and chief instructor and District commissioner for the Thika Pony Club.

Now that she is located in America, Anne has become DC of Pine Trace Pony Club and is qualified to examine at the C3 level in the United States Pony Club. Anne still attends clinics given by Major Jeremy Beale, an eventer chosen for two Olympic games. Anne then began The Loriento Riding Academy, where she now teaches her new crop of aspiring eventers.