F.E.I Trainer |  Castroville, California

tThere’s a saying that “Dressage is Patience,” and the lead trainer of the boutique dressage facility, Glynnsong Farms, is the embodiment of that creed. Co-owning the farm with her husband, Chris Carr, the two found a slice of paradise nestled in the rolling hills of Moss Landing, CA, and have turned it into a place of peace and learning for both the rider and the horse. Her love of horses was born at a young age, and she has been riding since she could walk, taking her first formal riding lessons at the historic Pebble Beach Equestrian Center when she was 5yrs old.
Patience has trained under some of the best equestrians in the world, including Olympic Trainer Hans Biss in Germany, as well as Gene and Ray LaCroix with Arabians, George Morris – the undisputed leader in the Showjumping world, Olympic eventing trainers Bea and Derek DiGrazia, and a slew of premium dressage trainers including Lynn Roberts Johnson, Pam Nelson, Juan Matute of Spain, Andreas Hausberger of the Spanish Riding School, Olympian/Olympic Dressage Coach Johann Hinnemann, David Hunt and Olympian Christine Traurig, and currently training with FEI “S” level Judge, Heidi Gaian.
Patience has trained hundreds of horses in her storied career, and has consistently won at both Open and Breed shows at the National level in nearly every English discipline offered, including Dressage, Hunter Pleasure, Jumpers, English Pleasure, Show Hack, Sport Horse and Sidesaddle.
Her true love and focus over the last few years has been dressage, and has personally trained horses from the beginning stages of training all the way through the highest level of the sport, the Grand Prix. She has over 30 National Championship and Reserve wins in all levels ,training level to Grand Prix. Throughout her career, she has earned her USDF Gold, Silver and Bronze medals, as well as Gold and silver bars for Freestyle, all aboard her favorite breed, the Arabian. Her training code is based on the motto that “training is Patience,” and that the horse and rider can be brought to their full potential with soft, correct riding and ethical, honest methods. She is currently the only Gold Medalist on the West Coast that specializes in Arabians, and is a discriminating, perfecting teacher, training riders to move up the levels correctly in order to earn their own USDF Medals, as well as travelling around the USA to teach clinics.