Leap of Faith Farms is presently seeking a qualified Western Performance or Reining trainer to relocate their business here full time.  The ideal candidate is willing to work with various breeds of horses and ages of clients, including children, and has an active rated horse show schedule.  An exclusive 35-stall breezeway barn with attached paddocks is available, with nearby additional stabling if needed.  Please contact Mariah at Leap of Faith Farms for further information.

Meanwhile, two excellent Western trainers are bringing their skills to Leap of Faith Farms to train and teach here for us in the interim.  Both Nan Kreeger and Jeff Fox are on-site and available several times a week.  Please see their Bio's below, and call Leap of Faith Farms to schedule with them.

NAN KREEGER:

Nan Kreeger is one of the most widely known and respected Western Trainers in Northern California.  She is an accomplished AQHA Professional, AQHA Congress, and World Champion rider, trainer, and judge. Nan has claimed many World Champion and Reserve Champion wins throughout her decades of training and showing. Her students have won numerous championships at AQHA and Congress level shows. She instructs novices through professionals in all aspects of the Showmanship, Horsemanship, Trail and Western Pleasure show divisions. 

She is a trainer that other Professionals hold in the highest esteem, yet she is gladly willing to teach beginner children who are serious about improving their skills.

Her knowledge comes from years of training with other renowned and historic trainers in the Western world, such as Red Randall.  She has trained many amateurs that are now trainers themselves, and her credentials are as impressive as her results. She pushes her students to do well and will guide them in the right direction.

In or out of the show pen, she truly helps you to show the best side of your horse.  Nan is meticulous about the horses and training, and will bring out your very best. You could be her next success story!     

JEFF FOX:

Jeff Fox has extensive experience in the western disciplines of Reining, Western Pleasure, Working Cow Horse and Cutting.  His competitive career began at age 12, where he started a successful show career with quarter horses.  Jeff showed in quarter horse breed shows and 4H, in showmanship, hunter under saddle, equitation, western pleasure, horsemanship and trail.  Over his youth horse show career, highlights include Quarter Horse Congress NYATT Western Pleasure Champion, as well as multiple top five finishes in the AJQHA World Show in Western Pleasure and Horsemanship.  He achieved making the Finals of the AQHA World Championships in Senior Western Pleasure as a youth.  Over his show career he has attained AQHA Superior awards with multiple horses in multiple events. 

As his youth career was coming to a close, Jeff turned his attention to Reiners, where he competed as a non-pro for five years, winning numerous titles on multiple mounts.  Highlights from this time included 3 straight youth reining wins at the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo, top ten finishes in the AQHYA World Show and Quarter Horse Congress, National Reining Horse Association (NRHA) Non-Pro Division of the SuperStakes, Derby, Lazy E Classic, and various non-pro awards.  During this time Jeff won more than ten thousand dollars in NRHA earnings.  In 1996 he won the National Reining Horse Association's Limited Non-Pro Derby, an outstanding achievement.  Jeff rode professionally in Europe between 1999-2000, and has continued to ride, train, and teach since then.  He started many 2 year-old Reiners who went on to very successful careers, including the winner of the 1998 Quarter Horse Congress Non Pro Reining Futurity, “Lacy Jay Dunit.”

Jeff particularly enjoys working with young and green horses and riders.  His training program is designed to produce horses that are quiet and responsive to soft cues, and riders that think, look ahead, and communicate with their mount. Jeff Fox currently rides for fun at Leap of Faith Farms.

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