Future Professionals’ Training Intensive

Learn about running operations at a training barn without losing focus on your own goals.

How many dressage trainers only train horses? Not many.

Most trainers are also the billing department, the scheduler, the HR manager, the client-relations team, and the person who notices that the water trough is leaking before anyone else does. Few future professionals see that side of the job until they’re already in it. This individualized program gives a serious future professional a hands-on look at what it actually takes to run a successful training barn, and at how to create systems that do some of the heavy lifting on parts of the job you don’t love.

How to keep focused on the horses.
If you want to be high-achieving in dressage, not getting derailed by day to day barn operations is key. This program is designed to help future professionals learn both what is involved in running a successful training barn, as well as seeing some systems to keep their focus where they want it: on the riding.

Program details

  • Ages: 13 to 17

  • Prerequisites: current regular riding program student & ideally working student in a program

  • Length: 2 weeks, inquire for longer opportunities

  • Group size: One participant at a time, for individualized attention and quality of instruction

  • Schedule: Live-in situation, work is 6 days/week

  • Location: Revel Ranch Sporthorses, near Park City, UT

  • Cost: $2000

A note to the rider

I always say that this program will either cure you of horses forever or make you terminal. Loving the horses & the sport is the easy part. This program is about finding out what it takes to build a life in it.

You’ll spend two weeks assisting the real work of a running training barn: riding, yes, but also the schedules, the invoices, the phone calls, and the problems that show up at 7 a.m. Some of it will be fun, some of it will be tedious, and some of it will surprise you. You will learn a lot you didn’t know you needed to know.

The goal is to give you a realistic vision of the life you think you want; how resilient are you? The horses & the business ask that of us every day. That being said, we love what we do & think there it’s possible to create systems that make the hard tasks easier & let us focus more of our energy doing what we love.

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2026 Future Professional: Emerson G.

  • young dressage professional baby horse

    Emerson meets Monochrome

  • young girl dressage horses at vet

    Emerson holding horses at the vet clinic

  • dressage junior schooling at show

    Getting ready to show

  • young girl moving hay bale

    Horse shows are more than riding

  • “We sent Emerson to Revel Ranch because she says she wants to be a trainer, and we wanted her to see the whole job. She came home tired, more capable, and with a new respect for everything that happens behind a good ride. She talked about managing client & employee relationships (almost!) as much as horses, and she was proud of both. The honesty of the program is what we valued most. Whatever Emerson decides about her future in this sport, she’ll decide it with open eyes.”

    —Father Peter G.