Five-star eventer Ashley Johnson coaches Beginner Novice and Novice horse-and rider pairs during a cross-country schooling session. She explains the benefits of trotting small fences during the warm-up. The students then school a ditch, followed by practicing a small course that includes tables, rolltops, a wagon and a half-coffin.
Ashley is a five-star eventer who also competes in dressage and jumping. She is a United States Eventing Association’s Eventing Coaches Program Level V coach, the Area III Young Rider Coach and a ‘r’ eventing judge and technical delegate. Ashley runs a breeding, training and sales business out of her farm in Ocala, Florida.
