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Jessica Jo Tate
Dressage Rider, Trainer and Coach; USDF Gold Medalist in Dressage
photo by Karen Lietz
JJ Tate and Elite Hanoverian Stallion, Donavan
JJ trains horse and students in the art of Classical Dressage ; she coaches at competitions, and shows horses at all levels for their owners. At times, she also represents horses for sale . She gives many clinics throughout the year at many locations both near her home and across the country. She is an articulate speaker, instructor and clinician. JJ Tate has ridden in clinics with notables: Gyula Dallos, Hungary, World Cup and Olympic Competitor; Oded Shimoni, Israel; Steffen Peters, US. Olympian; Charles de Kunffy; Walter Zettel; Jane Savoie , Nicole Uphoff, Olympic Champion and others
Watch for JJ as she makes her way to the top of her field, with integrity, poise and dedication to what is best for the horse and the rider.
JJ aspires to success in World Cup and Olympic competitions and seeks sponsors as she seeks the top of her field.
~WE appreciate and admire the way JJ has ridden and trained our stallion; always with love and respect, talent and compassion.. please join us in our support for all she does and hopes to do. ~Wendy and Marty Costello, owners of Donavan, Elite Hanoverian Grand Prix Stallion
left, ~Karen Lietz photo; Center and Right ~ MJCostello, Anyone wishing to know about breeding to Donavan should call
262-243-9190 or visit www.esdonavan.com
Wyngate phone: 262-275-8595
Wyngate fax: 262-275-0530
JJ's Cell Phone: 262-325-0099JJ's Home Phone: 262-275-3394
JJ's schedule for 2005
Winter months , Jan. through April JJ is in Wellington, Florida.
Spring 2005
April 2005. Monthly clinics At Elkhart Lake Dressage Center resume. Cost is $95pp / 45 minute lesson.
JJ and Donavan!, Elite Hanoverian Stallion will return to the Midwest Horse Fair April 15-17 in Madison WI. JJ and Donavan will perform a Special Musical Freestyle in celebration of his 20th Birthday and this will be his Final Exhibition of this type.
In April JJ will attend the World Cup Competitions in LasVegas , the 20-25. ( as observer).
Her May schedule includes shows at Silverwood, Paxton Farm CDI*** (Ohio); and she gives a clinic in Canada the last weekend.
June 3-6th will be a Charles de Kunffy Clinic at Wyngate. Call for more details.
June through to end of September, JJ is competing at shows in WI and Illinois. Watch for her at Sorensen's, Silverwood and Lamplight. She is riding her new Grand Prix horse, Swedish warmblood Cambay (Chip) in Grand Prix tests and Freestyles.
She is also riding several young horses for their owners, at Training , First and Second levels. They are Duesenjaeger ( by Donavan), Ukeegan, Donnermuth.
As of June 15, they are all scoring in the high 60's to mid/high 70 %'s , bringing home many blue ribbons and high placings!! JJ will definitley be taking many horses to Regional Championships, and perhaps on to Devon in PA.
~Jessica Jo Tate ~
Aspiring to Olympic Success!
Having ridden for most of her life, Jessica is inseparable from horses. She began dressage lessons in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin at age 7. Later, under the guidance of Charles de Kunffy, world-renowned dressage instructor, clinician and USAEquestrian judge, JJ had the opportunity to study dressage in Budapest, Hungary for two years with that country’s Olympic and World Cup finals competitor, Gyula Dallos. While in Europe she successfully competed at international competitions both at the CDI and national levels.
JJ was a member of the Region 2 Dressage Team at the North American Young Rider Championships in 1996, 1997, and in 1999 when they won the Silver Medal.
JJ has earned her United States Dressage Federation bronze, silver and gold medals in dressage. During 1999, JJ participated in the Pan American Games Selection Trials and is on the United States Equestrian Team Developing Riders List. Jessica Jo has published several articles in a variety of equestrian publications.
Since 2000, JJ has trained horses and riders, along with her co-head trainer Greta Pell, at their Wyngate Dressage Center in Walworth, Wisconsin during the spring through fall, and in Florida during the winter season. She gives clinics and trains students in several states, and is currently competing on several horses at the highest levels of dressage, including the Grand Prix. She has earned scores from esteemed judges in the high 60- to 70-percentiles at Intermediate II and Grand Prix on several different horses, including the imported Elite Hanoverian Stallion, FEI competitor Donavan, sire of breed show and performance champions. She has returned often to Hungary and Germany to continue her training and in 2002 began riding under Oded Shimoni, Israeli Olympian and World Cup competitor, both in the US and in Europe.
In 2004-2005 JJ acquired and began campaigning the Grand Prix horse, Cambay, a Swedish warmblood imported from Germany with steady success at the highest level of Dressage, the Grand Prix . Her achievements have contiunued to reach higher levels of success with scores consistently in the 70%-iles.
JJ prides herself on using classical dressage to ride and train all of her horses. She gets great pleasure in bringing dressage to riders of all ages and donates her time and talent to worthy causes.
JJ Tate seeks sponsorship to help her achieve her dream of representing the USA in the Olympics and other international competitions. For information on how one would help, please contact her directly, or, if she is overseas, through Candace Tate, at the Wyngate Dressage Center, 262-275-8595 or home, 262-275-2885; or through Wendy Costello, 262-243-9190 or doubleyou@wi.rr.com.
Visit her first sponsor The Equine Source ..from the Links page at http:// ESDonavan.com.
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