Our staff is motivated and capable, working and training under the supervision of Anne Gribbons. Normally our trainers are long term students of Mrs. Gribbons, but we also invite European trainers/riders to join us for various periods of time.

Head Trainer:

ANNE GRIBBONS is a native of Sweden who has been active in dressage in the United States since 1972. She has trained and shown over a dozenof her horses to Grand Prix, nine of which were United States Equestrian Team long listed. A number of her students have competed at the FEI levels, and several have schooled and shown their own horse to Grand Prix with her help. In 2001 her student of 6 years, Lesley Eden, was the Individual Gold Medalist at the North American Young Riders Championships.

Mrs. Gribbons was a member of the USET PSG-Intermediaries squad at the North American Championships in 1985 and the World Championships in 1986. In 1993 she spent a year on the European show circuit, competing in Dusseldorf, Schoten, Beek, Falsterbo and Aachen. She finished seventh in the 1994 World Championship Trials on Leonardo II, who was also invited to the US World Cup League Finals in the same year. In 1995 she was a member of the Pan American Silver Medal Team on Metallic, whom she schooled to Grand Prix. Metallic, ridden by Robert Dover, was on the Atlanta Olympic Bronze Medal Team and was the 1996 USDF Grand Prix horse of the year.

Anne Gribbons was the North American Representative to the FEI World Cup Committee 1994 - 1997, served for ten years on the US Equestrian Federation (formerly AHSA) Board of Directors, is a member of the USEF High Performance Dressage Committee and a member of the USET National Advisory Board. She is a past chair of the Athletes Advisory Council of the USEF, is vice-chair of the USEF Dressage Committee and the past Chairman of the USEF Active Competitors Committee for Dressage. She served as Chef D'equipe for US riders at the 2003 World Cup Finals in Gothenburg, Sweden.

In 2006 Mrs. Gribbons was named the "Horseman of the Year" by the Chronicle of the horse and was nominated by the FEI Dressage Committee for a promotion to an "Olympic" judge.

Mrs. Gribbons is both a licensed USEF Senior judge and an FEI Judge. She has officiated at numerous CDI's, Olympic and PanAm trials in the United States, as well as at prestigious events in Europe such as the Stuttgart CHIO, CDI at s'Hertogenbosch Dressage, world cup Finals in Dusseldorf in 2004, and in Las Vegas in 2007. She is also licensed by USEF as a Sport Horse Breeding Judge.

In addition she writes the monthly dressage column "Between Rounds" for the Chronicle of the Horse for the past 10 years.

Assistant Trainer

TAMRA BROWN, is Anne's Assistant Trainer and our Barn Manager. She started out as a working student at Knoll Farm and advanced to the position of head groom for Anne in 1994. The following year Tamra accompanied Metallic to Argentina where he competed at the Pan American games. Ms Brown has earned her USDF silver medal, has schooled several horses to grand prix, and was the Intermediare I champion at the 2007 region 8 championships.