NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED CLINICIANS

Kole Price

Reining

Kole Price was born and raised in Wyantt, Illiniois. At the age of 16, he moved to Aubrey, Texas to work for his first Reining horse trainer, Brent Loseke. After graduating high school, Price attended Blackhawk College. Upon graduating college, Kole then went to work for NRHA Professional Horseman, Gabe Hutchins for the next five years. Kole started Price Performance Horses in Leland, Illinois in 2015.

In his leasure time, Kole enjoys playing guitar and spending time with family. Accomplishments: • 2021 Run For A Milion Champion • 2021 The Last Cowboy Winner • NRHA Million Dollar Rider

NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED CLINICIAN

Michele McLeod

Barrel Racing

Michele McLeod is a professional barrel racer and 4 time NFR qualifier and 4 time NFR round winner witht he fastest time at NFR 2014. She is the Old Fort days Durby Champion, AQHA Congress Sweepstakes Champion and has multiple rodeo and Furturity wins under her belt. She has a total of $695,939 career earnings. Highlight of Accomplishments: • Multiple Futurity and Derby Winner • Multiple Top 10 placings at the Old Fort Days Futurity & Derby • OKC Summer Shootout 1D Champion • Reserve Champion Old Fort Days Futurity • Fastest Qualifier to the Old Fort

Days Derby • Multiple top 10 placings

Barrel Futurities of America

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• Indiana Futurity Champion • Barrel Bash ShoMe Slot Futurity Champion • 3rd Barrel Futurities of America World Championship Juvenile

Futurity • Reserve Champion Barrel Futurities of America Future Fortunes Sired

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Otto Thorwarth

Chaplain at Indiana Grand Race Course, Shelbyville, Indiana Otto starred as Ron Turcotte, in Walt Disney’s Secretariat

Otto Thorwarth, a native of Hot Springs, Arkansas, is a gifted teacher of the word of God. He is also a horseman, outdoorsman, and public speaker. Professionally Otto currently serves as the chaplain at Indiana Grand Race Course located in Shelbyville Indiana. Otto previously rode as a jockey for fifteen years in Kentucky and throughout the Midwest winning over 1,800 races and multiple leading riding titles. Otto starred as Ron Turcotte in Walt Disney’s “Secretariat” in 2010. Otto also co-wrote, produced, and acted in the faith based film “The Prodigal Cowboy” Otto is an entrepreneur always looking for a way to stretch out his stakes. He is also founder of Faith Builders of Men and Otto Thorwarth Ministries.

Otto’s career as a jockey and roll in Disney’s “Secretariat” has given him a platform to speak all across the country at churches and as a keynote speaker at special events and conferences sharing how God likes to use ordinary people to accomplish extraordinary tasks. Otto is a graduate of National Park Community College and Lifestyle Christianity University. Otto resides in southern Indiana with his wife Brandi and their three children where he is involved in his local church. Otto flourishes in his God given gift of healing, teaching and proving that anyone who says to this mountain, be removed and cast into the sea, and does not doubt in his heart, but believes those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says! ( Mark 11:23)

NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED CLINICIAN

Tommy Sheets

All Around Events

Tommy Sheets is a professional All-Around Horseman from New Albany, Indiana. He has been in the horse business most of his life. With a multitude of World Champions, Reserve World Champions, and 40 Congress wins to his resume. Tommy was the 1996 AQHA - GMC Sr All-Around Champion with Zippos LTD and 2007 AQHA -Sooner Jr All-Around Champion with Good For the Ladys. He has 15 total AQHA National Honor Roll Champions. Titles in Western Pleasure, Reining, Western Riding, Trail and Performance Halter. Tommy has earned over 7,000 AQHA points and has been a 6 time AQHA Team Wrangler Member. Tommy resides with his wife Leslie, who owns a commercial and residential interior design company, and their son Murphy.

Ken Levy, PhD, MBA

Dressage

Ken Levy has been an active equestrian for the past 30 years. He experiences include Foxhunting, show hunters, Eventing and Dressage. He and his wife Barbara own and operate Legacy Farm Dressage in Noblesville, Indiana where he trains and teaches beginners through advanced horses and riders.

Levy is a United States Equestrian Federation “r” Dressage Judge, a USDF Certified Instructor, and an active dressage competitor (competing horses from training through Grand Prix). Ken is an active volunteer for the dressage community. He is a past GMO President and is currently an IDS Director and the chair of the Education committee.

Nationally he is the 2018 outgoing United States Dressage Association’s Region 2 Director after serving 9 years and an advocate for Dressage to all equestrian disciplines. Ken was instrumental in helping to bring Dressage to the American Quarter Horse Association, by being invited to sit on the committee that developed the Dressage Awards program for AQHA members. In addition to his equestrian career, Ken after 22 years, retired from Roche Diagnostics as Head of Medical and Scientific Affairs in 2012 and was also Associate Professor of Medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine from 2012 to 2019.

NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED CLINICIAN

Dawn Harris-Stumm

Hunter/Jumper/Equitation

Dawn Harris-Stumm is the Trainer at Greyhavens Farms LLC in Zionsville, Indiana. Her family started Greyhavens in 1983. She has been training riders and horses of all ages from Beginner to Advanced Jumper riders since 1993 and began showing horses in 1979. Though Dawn no longer actively shows, her many riders Championships shows her dedication to teaching and training. She has produced many very effective riders and with a focus on superior horsemanship. Dawn has a special niche with helping young and or difficult horses.

Dawn’s daughter, Ashley Stumm, is the Catch Rider for Greyhavens Farms. She is also accomplished in her own right at the age of 17. Ashley has won many Championships and is now showing her horse Ismael in the Future Grand Prixs at World Equestrian Center in Ohio.

Gary Lane

Gaited

Gary has worked with many gaited horses over the years. He is dedicated to enhancing the knowledge of the novice and professional gaited horse rider, developing a free going horse, and obtaining a relaxing easy trail gait. He has spent many years teaching leadership skills to young military officers, which has given him a unique insight into the relationship between horse and rider. As a military commander in Desert Storm and a Kentucky State Police Detective, he understands that leadership has an essential role in training any horse. His ability to break the training down into simple steps is an asset to his teaching style, which creates a positive learning experience for the horse and rider. Gary’s definition of horse training is “the art of influencing and directing your horse to obtain his willing obedience in the accomplishment of a task.” Gary is the author of the best-selling gaited horse book, Training the Gaited Horse, From the Trail to the Rail. With the help of his book, his training DVDs, Balance and Movement Study Guide, Freedom Bits, and the popular Lady Lite Saddle, he has been able to help thousands of people find the magic in their gaited trail horse.

Gary has trained and shown horses himself; he has also prepared both horses and riders for competition in many disciplines. He has a broad base of knowledge that has allowed him hands-on experience with many different Gaited Breeds, Dressage, Western Pleasure, and Versatility Breeds. Gary is a riding teacher and teacher of teachers. He has demonstrated and enhanced the popularity of the Gaited Breeds with National and International students at clinics and major equine expos in North America. He will be available to answer your questions during his demonstrations and at his booth at the Indiana Equine Roundup. Gary believes students are not an interruption of his day but the purpose.

Colton Woods

Horsemanship / Liberty

Colton is an evolving horseman who is dedicated to teaching his students a progressive horsemanship approach built on practical application and understanding of the horse on a mental, physical, emotional and spiritual level. To Colton, horsemanship is not just a way to train a horse, but it is everything we do with our horses and in our own lives. Colton and his wife, Maredith, own and operate Colton Woods Horsemanship based in Lexington, Kentucky. They serve their clients through their online educational opportunities, the Heart of Horsemanship Podcast, teaching clinics around the United States, training horses and teaching lessons. His own horse journey started in equine rescue where he saw the drastic need for horses to have a strong foundation and the adverse results for those who had not received that education. He pursued his own education building the skills to teach horses’ fundamental groundwork and under-saddle skills, which has led him today to be one of the most sought after young horse development specialists on the East Coast. While Colton’s personal horses are more along the lines of Western Dressage, Reined Cow and Ranch Reining horses, much of his time is spent developing Hunter, Jumper and Dressage horses, as well as coaching riders in each of those respective disciplines. Colton has a deep passion for bringing together the similarities and uniqueness, which both Dressage and the Vaquero Bridle Horse traditions have to offer. He is continually pushing himself personally and professionally to develop his own understandings, insights, and skill sets to help better serve the horses and humans that he is blessed to work with. Whether he’s working a green colt or coaching a seasoned professional, Colton’s dynamic, introspective, holistic, and consistently evolving approach to horse and human education is sure to leave you inspired, more knowledgeable and wanting more.

NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED CLINICIAN

Dave DeWell

Ranch Horse, Ranch Riding Dave DeWell, of Stone Ridge Training Center, has a diverse background in the horse industry. He has successfully shown NRHA, AQHA, ARHA, AHA, and APHA. He is a money and point earner, has many year-end awards, circuit championships, ROMs, and World Titles. He was the 2016 ARHA Open Year End Champion. He has guided Youth and Amateur to earn many awards and titles. He is a 4H supporter with forty years as a volunteer leader. When not showing Dave enjoys judging American Ranch Horse shows and presenting our country’s colors at horse events. His emphasis for any horse breed and rider is to improve their communication to reach their goals. He likes working with any rider and horse who are willing to work hard whether it be a trail rider, open show rider, or circuit rider. While Dave appreciates a good horse and has worked with multiple breeds, his favorite would be a Ranch Horse.

Follow him on Facebook at stoneridgetrainingcenter or visit his website at stoneridgetrainingcenter.com.

Wayne Williams

Equine Jeopardy Wayne Williams has a long background in Radio and TV both on the air as a disc jockey as well as newscaster along with working behind the scenes in sales and production. Mr. Williams has always been involved with horses. Since age 6 to the present, he has involved himself with horses. He has appeared in Parades from the Indianapolis 500 Parade to the Rose Bowl Parade, exhibited in Open and Palomino shows, and most recently, he and wife Pat pay tribute to Roy Rogers and Dale Evans on Horseback with Silver Saddles and costumes of the era. Mr. Williams has totally dedicated himself to the Equine Industry since 1985. This is when a part time passion became a full time career. Mr. Williams began mixing his announcing background with horses as the “Voice of Many Horse Fairs”. He has become the “Voice of over 20 top Horse Expo’s Nationwide and in Canada. He also aids many Expo’s in presenting entertainment on horseback and various equine acts. He has announced from Sacramento to Baltimore. Equitana USA every year was a Major part. His latest accomplishment was the “Equine Entertainment MC” at the World Equestrian Games 2010 in Lexington KY, Rose Parade Equestfest 2018 and 2019 Producer/Director in Pasadena, work with the Indy 500 Parade, Culver Military Academies, the Voice of Breyerfest at the Kentucky Horse Park for 20 years and Many More! He also has over 20 years of directing and hosting the “Theater Equus” evening show at Harrisburg, PA during the Horse World Expo every March. For relaxation Wayne enjoys Trail Riding and camping with wife Pat, in addition to riding in parades, and being the man “Behind the Microphone. He is the Host of “Speaking of Horses” TV and Radio which continually brings a variety of Equine information to you at your fingertips on www.speakingofhorses.com.