Finding Your Super Horse

For more than 50 years, Lynn Palm has championed the partnership of horse and rider. An international clinician and competitor, she travels extensively teaching the fundamentals of Palm Equestrian Academy throughout the country and abroad.Lynn is an American Quarter Horse Association judge and holds her USEF R Western Dressage Judge's License. She continues to compete in both the United States Dressage Federation and the Western Dressage Association of America. Palm's competition record is second to none, having earned four AQHA Superhorse titles, over 30 AQHA World and Reserve Championships, several AQHA European Championships, more than a dozen WDAA World Championships, 15 USDF All Breed Awards Champions, and most recently the Dressage and Western Dressage Championships at the AQHA World Show.Lynn was a special guest performer at the 1996 Olympics and was named 2000 AQHA Female Equestrian of the Year by the Women's Sports Foundation. In 2003 she was the recipient of Equine Affaire's Exceptional Equestrian Educator Award, and she was titled Horsewoman of the year in 2007 by the American Quarter Horse Association. In 2010, she presented at the World Equestrian Games as a clinician and entertainer and did the same at the 2017 FEI World Cup Finals in Omaha.Lynn and her husband, Cyril Pittion-Rossillon, lead annual European Journeys, and she presents Winning Ways with Western Dressage alongside Marie-Frances Davis. Lynn is also an author who frequently contributes articles to leading equine publications along with an active online community. Her extensive educational library of videos and books can be found online (lynnpalm.com).Marie-Frances Davis joined the Palm Equestrian Academy team in the fall of 1997 armed with a
business degree from Salem-Teikyo University specializing in Equine Careers and
Industry Management. In the years since, Marie-Frances has successfully
mastered many facets of the business, from managing show horses and breeding
stallions to competing in hunter classes, dressage, and Western dressage. She
now focuses on maintaining daily operations of Palm Equestrian Academy and its
events, including Winning Ways with Western Dressage, teaching tours, clinics,
competitions, and European Journeys led by Cyril Pittion-Rossillon and Lynn
Palm. Rebecca M. Didier has worked for Trafalgar Square
Books, the leading publisher of equestrian books and videos, for 21 years. She
currently serves as both Managing Editor and Graphic Designer, and her
role in the small company spans acquisitions, editorial, design, and marketing.
She has worked with top riders, trainers, and equine experts from around
the globe to bring their books to print. In addition, TSB publishes a
specialized list of craft titles, and a limited number of canine and
nature books. The book Naturally Curious: A Photographic Field Guide
and Month-By-Month Journey Through the Fields, Woods, and Marshes of New
England by naturalist Mary Holland and conceived of and edited by
Rebecca, is a winner of the National Outdoor Book Award. Rebecca has
designed more than 200 book covers for the non-fiction, biography, memoir, and
fiction genres, as well as packaging for videos, including the
Telly-Award-Winning series 7 Clinics with Buck Brannaman, from the
director of the international hit feature film Buck. She is
co-author of the book Dressage with Mind, Body & Soul with
world-renowned animal behaviorist Linda Tellington-Jones.