Equine Kingdom Riding Instructor - Rachel Clift

Rachel Clift has been teaching lessons at Equine Kingdom Riding Academy as a freelance instructor since October 2010.

Horses have always been a passion of hers, and she has been riding for around 15 years. She showed competitively in Connecticut, her hometown, for over 12 years.

In college, she turned to the Houghton College Equestrian Team to fulfill her need for horses. She has owned her own horse for almost 11 years, and has traveled all around Western New York for competitions with her Equestrian Team.

After giving informal riding lessons to friends, family, and people of all ages, she is now pursuing a career as a riding instructor. Her full-time job keeps her work here at Equine Kingdom part time, and she is getting married in September 2011, so her teaching time is currently fairly limited.

Rachel hopes to increase her teaching time this coming fall, and looks forward to all the wonderful people that she will get to teach! She specializes in teaching beginner riders the basics of how to ride, giving them a wonderfully solid foundation to build upon.

She loves to give her riders patterns to learn, fun exercises to practice, and going on trail rides through the woods as a relaxing break at the end of a hard lesson's work!

Ms. Clift loves to ride whenever she has the chance, and she is wonderful will all of the horses - she has a firm, steady hand but is incredibly kind and giving to the horses. She has helped some of our stubborn lesson horses become better jumpers, improved their way of going, and helps keep up with their "tune-ups". We love having her on board as one of our riding instructors!

To set up a lesson with Rachel, please call her at (203) 314-6989 or send her an email at equinekingdom1@gmail.com!