7:30 PM - 8:30 PM EST
A life-long rider, Jaralyn was fortunate to learn from some of the best, who put horse welfare first and taught the highest standards of horsemanship. Jaralyn has developed her training approaches over 40 years of effort, education, competition and practice.
Jaralyn’s focus on dressage began as a working student with US Team rider Arlene “Tuny” Page in 1994 and 1996 in Hamilton, Massachusetts. Jaralyn has been coached by many talented trainers thereafter; William Warren FEI*** judge (2004-present), Conrad Schumacher (2005-present) and Scott Hassler (2010-present). Jaralyn’s early teachers include Lainey Johnson, for whom she cleaned stalls to earn rides on school horses at beloved Mainstone Stable and who is today her best friend and mentor. Also the exceptional coaching staff at Skidmore College from 1991 to 1995, where Jaralyn was a member of the National Champion Varsity Equitation Team.
Jaralyn has earned all USDF Medals with Distinction; Gold (2011), Silver (2007) Bronze (2005) and the Gold Freestyle Bar (2012). Jaralyn has helped more than 80 clients since starting her full time training business in 2007, with many long term, invested relationships. Jaralyn loves helping students earn their USDF Bronze, Silver and Gold Medals, and setting annual goals from learning to sit the trot to qualifying for Regional Championships. While the bulk of her clients have been adult amateurs and professionals, Jaralyn is particularly proud of her young riders and working students.
Prior to being a full-time trainer, Jaralyn had two rewarding careers and during both she trained and competed horses for clients. Using her BA in Government from Skidmore, Jaralyn worked for NOW-NYS, Inc. as Director of Governmental Affairs, helping to manage and lobby for the 30,000 member women’s rights organization from 1997 to 2000. Jaralynintended to pursue law school, with acceptances to multiple institutions, but was recruited by the founders of SmartPak Equine, LLC in 2000 and joined them as the fourth employee as Marketing Manager. After 6 amazing years growing this start-up, Jaralyn resigned as the Vice President of New Business Development and launched her full time training business, Finesse Dressage LLC, based in Poolesville, MD in 2007.
Finesse Dressage has evolved into a boutique training stable, with a farm in Loxahatchee, FL at White Fences for the winter and southern Virginia in the summers. Jaralyn and her life-partner (and farrier!) Joseph Hubschman have an amazing son William and family time has become an important aspect of everyday life with the horses since William’s arrival in 2018.
NEDA Know How is a nationally award-winning virtual webinar series that runs every Thursday evening in January, February, and March. Run through Zoom, participants are muted, but can ask questions in the platform's chat feature, allowing the NEDA moderators to pass the questions along to our speakers for answers to your challenges and questions.
The goal of the webinar is to bring our membership a variety of prolific speakers aiming to increase:
- knowledge of best practices and opportunities in the dressage industry,
- opportunities to query those working in the dressage industry regarding cutting-edge advancements or best-quality educational standards, and
- knowledge of how their aspirations are impacted by others' work in the dressage community or the equine industry.
