Our Friendly Instructors

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Susan Turner-Davis is the owner of Yass Pets and principal coach for riding. As a junior member of Mersey Valley Pony Club (in Tasmania) she represented her club in eventing at State level, gained her B and pony club instructor's certificates and held the position of District Commissioner for three years. She has competed successfully in all Olympic disciplines, "B" Grade show jumping, official Novice Eventing and Prix St George dressage. She is a qualified EFA, R DA, CAD Level 1., General Principals National Coach Level II, on the official National dressage judges panel, and an EFA Horse Trials Technical Delegate.

Susan also holds her Certificate IV in Workplace assessment and training. Although Susan started in pony club, she has also successfully held her racehorse's trainers license in Tasmania including riding in amateur races and hunt races. Susan was lucky enough to train with Franz Meringa, Numo Olivera, Ginny Holgate, Martin Plewar Christopher Bartle plus many other wonderful coaches giving her a broad spectrum of knowledge, but probably the most influential trainer Susan has worked with is one of her ex-pupils from the King Island Pony Club - Dr Andrew McLean.(aebc.com.au)

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Anna Marsden is an equestrian journalist for major Australian print and web - based equestrian media, as well as a qualified NCAS/EFA level 1 coach (General).

She breeds Anglo Arabs and Trakehners as well as coaching and competing (occasionally) in dressage. She became a qualified NCAS/EFA level 1 coach in 1987 and was a national dressage judge F level from 1992 to 2004. She has broken in and trained her own horses over a number of years and now focuses on in hand training for young and green horses.

Anna began riding in Western Australia at eight years of age and was an active competitor and Pony Club member as a teenager. During a two year working holiday in Europe and the United Kingdom, she gained experience as working as a groom in a French showjumping stable and and a North Yorkshire hunt livery stable.

Returning to WA from the east coast, she became Chief Instructor of The Horsemen's Pony Club for two years and ran her own agistment and boarding centre on the outskirts of Perth. While becoming a nationally qualified instructor she also returned to competitive riding as an eventer. Now permanently back on the east coast, she has been a dressage competitor and judge as well as a founder member of the Murrumbateman Adult Riding Club.

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