Riding Lessons

`Instructors`

Leighanne Brocki

Since August of 2004, Leighanne has taught as the Full-Time Riding Instructor at French Hill. Having worked as a professional for several years on the East Coast and Texas, she decided the Pacific NW was her new home. Leighanne graduated from Meredith Manor International Equestrian Center in 2001 with an emphasis on Education and Hunter/Jumper training. She has shown in the Three-Day Eventing, Dressage, and Jumper Divisions. In 2014 Leighanne became a United States Hunter Jumper Association Certified Trainer. She took an extensive course through the USHJA which is a new system of training and certifying trainers by enabling them to get further education in the American Forward Riding System. Leighanne loves teaching all ages and levels of riders and believes that the Riding Academy is a crucial step in the education of riders. Her greatest passion is seeing riders reach their goals and surpass their own expectations of how far they can go in their riding. Many riders go on to show and own their own horses and for Leighanne that is the best part… to see them competing and visit with them at the shows.

Student Assistants

Our student assistants are teens with extensive experience in both riding and horse care. Their job is to assist students in getting horses groomed, tacked up, and untacked. They also help students mount their horses and clean their tack after lessons. Additionally, they help instructors with turnout, blanketing, and horse laundry. They are very hard workers and without our student assistants, we would not be able to have such a wonderful program.

FHF Riding Academy Horses (Click On A Horse For Larger Image)

Our school horses are the best cared for school horses anywhere. They are treated exactly the same as the show horses in the barn – receiving the same veterinary care, dental care and farrier care. They get regular turnout year around, whatever they need as far as feed, supplements and maintenance are concerned, and they are schooled weekly by one of the instructors. In the following horse info you’ll see the word “hands”. Hands refer to their height. One hand is 4 inches, and horses are measured with a special measuring stick in “hands”.


Ginger	GG	Pokie	Fox

Peter	Tempe	May

The riding instructors…

`Instructors`

Leighanne Brocki

Student Assistants

FHF Riding Academy Horses (Click On A Horse For Larger Image)

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