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As a young girl I watched the "World Famous"  Lipizzaner Horses perform in Louisville, Kentucky and dreamed about the day I would be able to perform the "haute ecole" on a prancing white stallion.

In the early 1990s I was introduced to Peruvian Pasos and trained these gaited horses for several years.  My Peruvian Paso friend directed me to a "help wanted" advertisement for someone to work with Spanish horses. I interviewed (about 100 people responded) and was hired as a part-time training/horse selling assistant with Denham Ranch in Aubrey, Texas in 1996.

Within several months, I had sold my Quarter Horse and purchased a 7-month old Spanish Andalusian filly named Keberes D who I nicknamed "Leia." A few years later my mother and I purchased a half-sister Andalusian mare to Leia named Nobleza D.  Both Andalusian mares went on to become Champions via the International Andalusian & Lusitano Association (IALHA).

While at Denham Ranch, I worked with the herd of 50 or so pure Spanish Andalusian horses, handled and clipped mares and foals, bred stallions, gave tours, showed horses, videotaped and photographed sales horses, trained young stock, mare-broke colts, attended "fiestas" and clinics, participated in Cria Caballar inscription/revision, and took dressage riding lessons.

Around 2001 I went my own way and separated from Denham Ranch.  My Andalusian mares were then bred and boarded for some time at Herradura Andalusians in Denton, Texas. I have attended IALHA Nationals and local shows for many years. I've trained my Andalusian horses for English pleasure, Western pleasure, reining, doma vaquera, trail riding, dressage, and tricks.

Spain "the mother country" is never far from my mind when it comes to breeding my Spanish horses. I read Spanish and have gained valuable knowledge from Spanish horse literature and websites. I've also studied hours upon  hours of videotape of Pure Spanish horses (Pura Raza Espanola) brought back from Spain.

I am active in maintaining several websites devoted to the Spanish horse and am making educational videos so that people can appreciate the beauty and heritage of this special breed from Spain.

At Denham Ranch I started 5 or 6 young Andalusian mares and colts for riding and worked with a large number of weanlings and yearlings.  I trained gaited Peruvians for several years.  I've trained my own Andalusian horses for show and pleasure and especially like working with young horses on ground work. I'm currently practicing classical dressage with my Peruvian Paso and working to improve his piaffe, passage, and high school dressage moves.

I've worked for many different horse trainers and have attended clinics on de-spooking, desensitization, obstacles, natural horsemanship, and dressage. While I don't train outside horses, I do assist friends and family from time to time with their horse projects. 

When I moved to Texas I drove horse carriages in downtown Dallas, worked on some dude ranches and estates, gave riding lessons, and began riding Andalusian horses and Peruvians.  I've taken riding lessons from several instructors in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.  Recently I began competing in AERC limited distance and 50-mile endurance rides and love the challenge of riding a sound horse over tough terrain against the clock.

Whenever I travel I try to ride at different places - I've ridden horses in Puerto Rico, along the Oregon coast, at Padre Island in Texas, and in the mountains of Colorado.