Kathy Connelly is an international dressage rider, trainer and coach as well as an S level judge. She has won national titles at all the FEI levels including The United States Grand Prix Championship and The United States World Cup Championship. She represented the USA at the World Cup in Gothenburg, Sweden, and was the highest placed member of the Grand Prix bronze medal team at the North American Championships. She has always selected her own horses and trained them to the Grand Prix. Kathy trained extensively with the late German trainer Herbert Rehbein and also trained with Ernst Bachinger, current Director of the Spanish Riding School of Vienna. One of Kathy’s specialties is training piaffe and passage on the long lines.

Kathy has successfully partnered her riders with horses for over 25 years. Her horses and students have competed on Olympic teams, at The World Cup, The World Games, and The Pan American Games, The Canadian World Cup and The United States Young Rider Teams. She has acted as Chef d’Equipe tor the U.S. Dressage Team and coached the U.S. Silver Medal-winning International Young Rider Team in Australia in 2003.

Many successful international riders have trained with Kathy, including Shannon Dueck, Jessica Ransehousen, Betsy Steiner, Todd Flettrich, Reese Koffler Stanfield, and George Williams (with Marnix and Rocher, United States Grand Prix Champion, and winner three times at Dressage at Devon). She also trains many amateurs and Young Riders, including Katie Walsh, the 1995 NAYRC National Champion.

She has published numerous articles in all United States Dressage magazines and is co-author of the book “Dressage Insights and Excerpts from the Experts” Kathy is on the Advisory Board of “Dressage Today” magazine, and she is the Dressage Products Advisor for Dover Saddlery. She is also a popular clinician throughout the U.S.

Kathy is based in Concord, Massachusetts, in the spring, summer, and fall, and she winters in Wellington, Florida.