Welcome to the Clouser Event Team
We are all about the HORSES!!
I believe that for just about every problem with a horse there is more than one approach to fix each problem. There is no set way to train horses. Horses are just like us, no one is the same! Each horse I take on is evaluated and a plan is devised to obtain that horse's best potential. I train horses and riders for eventing, dressage, show jumpers, and pony club.-- Clouser Event Team (C.E.T.)
About Jennifer Clouser- Rider and Trainer of C.E.T.
Jennifer Clouser is not only a rider but a dedicated horsewoman! Jennifer has grown up with horses in her life. Even as a toddler she could be found on the back of a Tennessee Walking Horse accompaned by her late grandfather. When her family moved to the Newville Pa area the family Walking Horses were sold. Horses soon returned to the family though. Jennifer's mother, Donna, got bit by the 'horse bug' again. She purchased a young hand raised Saddlebred. The mare was young, spooky, and had a very bad rearing problem not just riding but in the stable as well. Jennifer was around 10 years old when that mare was bought. Despite professional training, the mare returned to the family farm uncontrolable again. Jennifers' natural insight into horses began just sitting in the mares' stall with grain in her hands. After about a week of doing this the mare came around and started to accept Jennifer, by eathing out of her hands. Within weeks Jennifer was able to groom this mare in the stall and cross-ties. Soon Jennifer and the mare were out riding in the fields as if they were old time best friends...
Ever since that standoffish unruly mare came around Jennifer has been taking on one difficult horse after another. At 13 the family bought an older TB, Sleepy, he had raced in his earlier years then competed in dressage and eventing. This horse taught Jennifer that there is more to riding than just training. Within two months of owning Sleepy he bowed a tendon while turned out in the field. Leaving 8 months of bonding time with hosing, icing, wrapping, and hand walking. During that time Jennifer spent her time studying the horse structure and mechanics. After almost a year back into work Jennifer and Sleepy were schooling for a prelim event, when her horse stepped wrong taking off to 4 foot jump, completely blowing apart all the soft tissue and fracturing bones in his lower leg. Three vets said put the horse down as he would never be able to put weight on the leg again. Jennifer convinced her family that she could make him sound again! It took two and a half years of treatment, every step done by Jennifer. Grant it Sleepy was not sound to be ridden...he was however able to enjoy a retirement life that he deserved. Sleepy lived out his life on the family farm as a babysitter for the race horses and foals who eventually called Jennifers' farm home. (Sleepy passed away April 1, 1999 due to natural causes at the age of 24.)
Jennifer has learned to not only treat injuries and misbehaviors but how to prevent them. Granted not everything is preventable, yet if caught early the out come is generally very good. Every horse that Jennifer takes on is treated like her own. Every preventive measure that can be taken is done so. She takes pride in a job well done. She has since 1995, at age 15, consistently taken on the horses people cannot handle or want anymore. Most of Jennifers' horses have been from the race track, others are homebred, and some were purchased from people who were over horsed. Some over horsed people even later bought back their 'problem' horse when Jennifer had re-trained them!!
Today Jennifer is married and has a young son. Even with a family she has goals in mind that only a strong horsewoman would even think of undertaking. With the support of her husband, Ken, Jennifer in 2008 is beginning to prepare for the instructor certification offered by the United States Eventing Association (USEA). If all goes well, by the end of the year she will be the only instructor with the USEA teaching within a two and half hour drive from her home base in Newville PA. Jennifer is also currently looking for promising horses who can take her on to her judges and offical licenses in both dressage and eventing! Jennifer is also looking into becoming an Pony Culd examiner at regional and national levels.
Trained, cliniced, and/or worked for/with: Jane Sleeper, Sharon Best, Montie Eagle, Robert Dover, Jimmy Wafford, Bruce Davidson, Deanna Hines, Micheal Godfrey, Dr Furlong and family, George Morris, Lendon Gray. (Plus other instructors from time to time in jumpers and eventing.)
Level of riding: competed- prelim eventing, second level dressage, 4' jumpers, two mile paper chases, hill topping, cubbing, pony club, local schooling, and barrel racing.
Levels schooled with consistency: eventing- through advance level (head groom and prepared through schooling and condtioning work horses for three star events inculding Pan Am and Olympic trials), dressage- prix st george, and jumpers 5'
