Kate's involvement with and love of horses spans half a century. The daughter of native Californians who were themselves lifelong horsemen, Kate learned to ride at the age of six and went on to participate in competitive trail riding and raising, training, and showing Arabians. Prior to moving to North Carolina, Kate served as a Lieutenant in Pennsylvania's Butler County Sheriff's Mounted Posse. Now living on New Avalon Farm in northern Durham County with her Morgan Horse, Mouse, and Appaloosa, Pawnee, she is a founding member of the Friends of Hill Forest and a member of the Triangle Rails To Trails Conservancy and the North Carolina Horse Council, working to preserve and enhance riding opportunities for generations of North Carolina equestrians to come.

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• Schooling the green horse under saddle
• Instruction for the novice horseman
• Lightness, flexibility, confidence
• Starting foals
• Behavior and performance problems

• Ground manners
• Longeing
• Trailering
• Tying, Leading
• Standing quietly for tacking, grooming, shoeing, and vetting

Trailering to New Avalon: On your horse's first visit, please bring a copy of his current negative Coggins certificate for our files. New Avalon is located in northern Durham County, NC, just north of the city of Durham, near the pleasant community of Bahama. It's an easy drive from anywhere in the Triangle Region, about 35 minutes northwest of Raleigh-Durham International Airport, and accessible via I-85, I-40, I-540, US-70, US-501, and the Durham Freeway (NC-147).