BOLD
VANTAGE FARM AKHAL
TEKES & AKHAL TEKE SPORTHORSES HIGH
RIVER, ALBERTA, CANADA
403-560-7503
bvconsulting@gmail.com
Our Team
Alumni
2015
Gabin Jacquet
Gabin came to
Bold Vantage Farm as a volunteer seeking to
improve his English.
Gabin started taking riding lessons at the age of
four and began
his competetive jumping career at eleven. He currently shows in
1.30 m
jumper division. In 2012 Gabin placed second in ‘amateur
one’ in the team category at the
National Championships of
France.
After braving an Alberta fall and
winter Gabin
passed all his English exams and takes
back to France
a new perspective on the
training of
young horses.
2014
Caroline Doat
Caroline joins
Bold Vantage Farm from
France’s
Institute Superior Agriculture. Like our other working
students form
ISA she is studying agriculture, environment and the food
industry,
hoping one day
to chose a career from amongst these disciplines. Caroline
started taking riding
lessons at the
age of six, beginning her competitive jumping career age
thirteen. Caroline
currently shows
in the m 1.20s, although sadly we didn’t show this summer to
take advantage
of her experience in the ring. She has also tried eventing,
vaulting and
dressage but now prefers to work mostly with young
horses. We at
Bold Vantage are thankful for that!
2013
Juliette Carteron
Juliette is another Bold Vantage
recruit from France’s
Institute Superior Agriculture.
There she is studying agriculture,
environment and the food industry.
At age four Juliette started taking riding
lessons, beginning her competitive
jumping career age ten. In 2009 she placed 3rd in Hunter,
club élite category, of the
National Championships of France. In 2010 she took up pony
mounted games as
a means of competing in a
team-based equestrian sport. This girl rides to win,
and was the recipent of a 2013
Jump Alberta rider bursary.
2012
Anna-Lena Baumgardt
Anna-Lena joined Bold Vantage Farm from
the Schleswig-Holstein region of Germany. Anna is
currently
studying agriculture, having already attained a
certificate in equine studies
and stud farm management. She is an experienced
dressage, jumping and event rider,
who started her riding career with vaulting, when she was
some four-years-old.
Anna is a C-level (Deutsche Reiterliche Vereinigung FN)
certified trainer,
which means that we, and any interested visitors, can
take
advantage of her coaching skills and in-house
lessons while she is with us.
2010
Marine Deleuze
Marine came to
Bold Vantage Farm as an exchange student from
France in 2010. As
part of her studies at her agriculture college, she was required to work
abroad in some
professional capacity. Though Marine had never actually shown before
she joined us,
she racked up the
ribbons over the course of her stay, exhibiting bags of courage in the
ring and tons of initiative and
pluck in everything
else she did. Since returning to France and completing her studies,
Marine has been
employed with a branch of the Haras Nationaux.
2009
Peggy Parkes
Peggy was with
Bold Vantage Farm for the 2009 season.
As a licensed Certified
Horsemanship Association member, she has ridden,
trained and worked with
all breeds of horses across many disciplines in B.C. and Alberta for
close to twenty years.
Peggy brought to our team a trainer’s enthusiasm for
hot-blooded horses and
is one of the most knowledgeable horse industry
professionals we know.
Sadly, we lost Peggy’s services
to a knee injury
requiring surgery.
OUR RIDERS
Carolyn Willekes
OUR VETERINARY
PRACTITIONERS
Burwash Equine
Services
Drs. Alyssa Butters, Kirby Penttila
Moore Equine
Drs. Chris Berezowski
TD Equine
Group
Drs. Candace Crosby, Susan Schaal
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