MEET OUR TRAINERS

SANDRA CURRIER - Manager/Trainer

My childhood included the mandatory stubborn little Shetland pony who had a fondness for a particularly sweet spot of clover in the front lawn. In my teens, I owned a Hunter that I showed locally... he however was not particularly fond of walking into the stall on wheels. Fast forward to college, and two years of taking all of the recommended courses for a chemical engineering degree, I still found time to train horses each summer. Before I knew it I had a barn full of client horses and a successful training career.

After training and showing a variety of breeds, Meg Preston of Rum Brook Morgans called and offered me a private job, so off to New Hampshire I went. We stood the number one breeding sire at that time - Immortal Command. We bred 58 mares that year and I had lots of nice youngsters to work with. In 1990, Maynard Casler of Misty Hills Farm called with a job offer that included some very nice horses to show. Supreme Odyssey and Mrs. Schaefer won at Louisville that next year and not until I got back to my hotel room and shook green shavings out of the cuffs on my pants did I realize that I had trained a horse that WON AT LOUISVILLE!!

In the fall of 1994 I accepted a job with the Perwien's here in Texas. I left briefly to work in Kentucky for two years and then returned to Bluebonnet where we have bred and raised numerous top horses including RWC Blue Sapphire, WC Selena's Song, RWC CH She-bop, RWC Be Bop Lady, RWC High on Heir, WC Rocket City, RWC Bluebonnet's Challenger, RWC Xuxa and RWC MMMBop, RWC Sudoku, WC Nella Fantasia, CH Uncut Jewel, CH Tuffy’s Miss Allison, WC Bluebonnet’s Hip Hop, WC CH Carmen Miranda ™, WC Albert Kapoony, RWC CH ITunes, and of course, crowd favorite and Mr. P’s beloved iPod. . All in all it has been quite an adventure with numerous friends and stories accumulated along the way!

MARTIN PIENAAR-Trainer

I was born and raised on a farm in the Free State, South Africa with 2 siblings. An older brother and younger sister. During my school years, I ran track, played rugby and was a competitive swimmer. I didn't start riding horses until I was about 15 years old. Once I started riding it became everything to me. The love of horses and riding is just hard wired into my DNA.

After finishing secondary education (high school in the US), I went on to University and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Education. I was offered a job with Elizka Jordaan of BuckRidge Stables and left teaching school behind. However, I did apply that learning to teaching my equitation, junior exhibitor and amateur riders.

I've worked for Do-Try Stables, Heyns Stable, Juhantha Stables and then opened my own barn in October 2012, Dream Acres. Since 1994. when I became a professional training, I have had the privilege to work with some amazingly talented horses for which I am very thankful. Some of those horses were Guess Who, The Flight Captain, Vida Vidas, Radetzky’s Sun, Affirmative Action, Dodge, Pride And Passion, The Drill Sargeant, Brave Heart Warrior, Walking Tall, Hot Ticket, Fearless Believer, High Speed, Final Stand, Magic Prince, Blue Print, Eye Believe, French Legionnaire and many more who was either Champion or SA Grand Champion in their divisions at our SA World’s Championship Show at Bloemfontein, South Africa.

Through the years I’ve been in love with equitation and to help the rider understand the mechanics of riding and to apply this to help their horse to be better and together achieve personal goals set. Riders of mine won the 3G and 5G Equitation Champion of Champions through the years and were selected for SA’s National Teams competing Nationally and Internationally. I was fortunate to have been selected as a coach for the South African World Cup team many times through the years and I have been awarded South Africa Equitation Trainer of the Year in 2017 in addition to South Africa Reserve Equitation Trainer of the Year in 2015 and 2015. I’ve been blessed to train great juvenile and amateur combinations through the years.

I dream, eat and live horses. I’ve got a way different approach than most other trainers to training horses and I’m trying to enhance the natural way of the horse, to help them grow to be the best that they can be and live a healthy and happy life after their careers. I absolutely love being around horses, starting young ones and finding jobs for them, helping juvenile and amateur riders to find their way forward on their journey to make their dreams come true and I love to work with misunderstood horses to find a way to get their clocks ticking.

There is always more than one way to get the job done and I believe firmly kindness breeds kindness.