Laura Hill
UKCC Level 2
Laura joined the coaching team in 2017 and became Lead Coach in 2021.
Originally competing British Eventing up to 4* level, she now competes in British Dressage to Advanced.
She grew up in the Belvoir branch, and with them went to the National Pony Club championships 5 times including winning the Open Horse Trials at Champs !
Since joining us Laura has grown the enthusiasm for dressage in the club, has a great following in badge club, successfully coaching and supported members through to B test level as well as preparing and supporting members at competitions.
Kate Wallett
BHSII (Senior coach)
Kate is also our DC and coaches on a voluntary basis.
Many years ago, Kate trained with Olympians Christopher Bartle and Jane Bartle-Wilson, at Yorkshire Riding Centre. She gained her BHSAI, then BHSII at 20yrs old. Returning to YRC, Kate coached the BHS students towards their exams alongside teaching outside clients. She also evented to BE Intermediate and Medium dressage.
After a break from riding, Kate got involved in the Fernie when her daughter joined, she is now an accredited PC coach having successfully coached our members up to B test level.
She is now having great fun having her own horse again, having successfully competing in British Dressage at the nationals, Inter-regional and Senior Home International teams.
Justine Hare
BHS Accredited Professional Coach, UKCC Level 2 Coach
Justine is an approachable and experienced coach and BD Dressage Judge.
Coaching all ages and abilities, Justine’s warmth, enthusiasm and eye for detail makes her popular with members of all ages and parents !
Her speciality is flatwork and polework, though also coaches gridwork, show jumping and cross country.
‘My coaching philosophy is to create a supportive and enjoyable environment that enables the development of the horse, the rider and their partnership.
For riders, development focuses on increasing knowledge, technical skills and feel. Horse development concentrates on improving the way of going. I believe building confidence and self-belief in both horse and rider is essential as this enables progress and achievement both within and between sessions.
Using this approach allows goals to become achievable – I love seeing partnerships achieve their goals!’
Alex Tordoff
UKCC Level 3
Alex is based just outside Tilton having been in the Cottesmore PC. He now has a string of event horses eventing unto 4* level and has trained with top riders including World Champion, Rosalind Canter and J-P. Sheffield .
In 2015, he was the top British rider at the European Junior Eventing Championships in Poland, finishing fifth overall.
Alex holds his UKCC level 3 and has become a firm favourite for his confidence building and enthusiastic jump coaching !
Anna Reeder
BHSAI
After being a PC member with Atherstone, Anna now loves to coach members in various sports.
Growing up Anna was highly successful competing in mounted games, culminating in being selected to ride for the PC England Mounted games team in 2012 on their homebred pony.
Anna holds her BHSAI and has also gained the prestigious Pony Club A test in 2018. Since then she has enjoyed competing in various sports, and has qualified for Pony Club championships numerous times. She has also competed in affiliated sport, British Eventing to Novice level and British Dressage, including qualifying for the Winter Area Festival Championships.
She also has a real passion for backing and producing youngsters, mostly focusing on producing young ‘Pony club Pony’ types. The broad range of experience coupled with her fun and confidence building approach makes her popular from our younger members right through to our seniors.
Ben McClumpha
UKCC Level 3 Eventing
Ben is an accomplished equestrian professional that has successfully competed across multiple disciplines within the sport, working for, and training with, some of the world’s best equestrians.
Having been brought up through the Riding Club (Misterton & District) and Pony Club system (Atherstone) achieving his A Test.
Ben started his career in showjumping competing in 1.30m classes before changing to eventing, in which he produced and competed multiple horses at 4* level both at home and abroad. In latter years Ben concentrated on the pure dressage sphere, competing at International Small Tour level.
Ben now focuses more on coaching, passing on his wealth of knowledge and a unique skill set that has allowed him to diversify into successfully training a variety of levels of horses and students and is a fully insured BHS Accredited Professional Coach, is a British Eventing accredited coach as well has having his UKCC level 3 Eventing.
Amy Burbage
UKCC Level 3
Amy holds her UKCC level 3, as well as being a Centre 10 advanced coach in sports, been on the national development programme for coaching excellence and a Pony Club B test assessor.
After joining pony club aged 10 and taking in part in all activities that the pony club offered, Amy found a love for eventing. She has a range of horses which she competes as well as finding a passion for breeding event horses.
Amy McLauchan
Accredited PC Coach
Amy has a broad range of experience having worked with dressage and event horses, on a large professional livery yard and a stud breeding and producing sports horses. For fun, she has Team Chased to Intermediate, hunted extensively and can often be seen escorting children on the hunt field !
Amy is working towards her UKCC Level 2 coaching certificate. She is a confident and empathetic coach, instilling confidence and belief – she is already finding a draw to coaching our minis and juniors.
Lucy Hinch
Level 3 Accredited Professional coach
Lucy is passionate about helping riders of all ages and abilities build confidence, develop their skills and achieve their goals. Her coaching focuses on building trust and strong horse-and-rider partnerships through fun, engaging exercises both in and out of the saddle.
Having grown up in the Pytchley Pony Club, Lucy went on to work for international and Olympic-qualified dressage rider Beverley Brightman and 4* event rider Nigel Taylor, before working as an exercise groom in the pointing industry.
Eventing and dressage are Lucy’s main passions. Having competed in both with three home-produced horses, she is currently producing her own young horse alongside running a schooling and livery business. She also has a passion for retraining young ex-racehorses and helping riders develop the confidence to enjoy their horses and reach their potential.
Lucy is also a Centre10 Advanced Coach.
Keeley Martin
UKCC Level 2
Keeley is one of our stalwart coaches, having coached members for more years than she likes to admit ! Her strength lies in building confidence through fun and her enthusiasm with our younger members and can always be heard singing ‘The Fernie song’ with any group.
Keeley has many years experience of event grooming at international level and has extensive experience working with hunters, young stock, mares and foals and is most recently teaching freelance and within a riding school.