About Us
Contacts
Officers
President
Brandie Taylor
1545 Bradford Rd. Petersburg, TN 37144
(931) 637-2892 | email: tackintocash@hughes.net
Vice President/Membership Chair
Beth Harris
1807 Lombardy Ave
Nashville, TN 37215
(615) 618-3412 | email: Elizabeth.Harris@vanderbilt.edu
Treasurer
Dr. Chris Saia
cnsaia@bellsouth.net
Secretary/Newsletter
Michael Foster
ma1foster@bellsouth.net
Board Members
Kathryn Bauman , Event/Meeting Coordinator
2584 Kennedy Creek, Auburntown, TN 37016
(615) 408-4085 | email: pvskkb@dtccom.net
www.pioneervalleystables.com
Lori Hoos, Ads/Promotion; Hospitality
whoos@bellsouth.net
615-790-9358
Hospitality
Carolyn Foster
Diane Dorsa
Communications/Website
Chelsey Sawtell
Dr. Chris Saia
cnsaia@bellsouth.net
CTDA Members Assisting the Board
Sherry Pride, Events
6650 Arno-Allisona Road
College Grove, TN 37046
sp4horses@united.net
615-477-7510
Officer Bios
CTDA Officers
Brandie Taylor
President 
Brandie is a 2000 graduate of MTSU with a BS in Horse Science. She got her first horse at age five (a miniature horse that Brandie’s mom still owns at the ripe old age of 31!) and has had horses ever since.
Having shown everything from miniature horses, driving, eventing, hunters, Intercollegiate Equestrian team, western pleasure, stock seat equitation and ven some showmanship, she always comes back to Dressage and admits it’s her true love. She’s also finding that the older she gets, the more she likes flat work!
Brandie teaches and trains at her farm in Petersburg as well as traveling to other local farms in Middle Tennessee. She loves working with young horses and enjoys teaching. She is currently showing Rita, a 7 year-old Trakhener cross, and her newest addition, Mercury (pictured) an 8 year-old Trakhener.
Beth Harris, Vice President, Membership Chair
Beth Harris moved to Nashville in June of 2006 to take her first "official" job as a Pathologist at Vanderbilt. She started riding in Maryland 15 years ago and rode hunter/jumpers with the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association. Beth says that soon after graduating from college, she had a lesson with a visiting dressage instructor and "saw the light”. While living in Georgia, she started training with Richard Lifton, and currently rides in his clinics as often as possible!
The move to Nashville has turned out to be a wonderful thing! Beth bought her first horse, Roanoke's Landing (an off-the-track TB gelding) in November 2006, who is the kindest, most generous horse. She got married in August 2007 to Mark (he rides bicycles, not horses!), who is enjoying his immersion in the horse world! And she recently bought a lovely, very sweet, Oldenburg youngster and is looking forward to growing and learning with him in the new 2008 season!
Kathryn Bauman
Educational Events Coordinator
Kathryn and her family moved to Auburntown
Tennessee from Wisconsin in early 2006.
She owns Pioneer Valley Stables Riding School &
Training Center, sells Real Estate for Parsley &
Todd Realty, and is the mother of eight children.
Kathryn’s passion is education and her focus is on
receiving and providing the best of educations for
herself and others. She hosts and participates in
Instructor Workshops, Monthly Clinics, Trainers
Workshops, the L Program, USDF University
programs and more.
A Bronze medalist, Kathryn is working toward a
2008 Silver. She trains regularly with Richard
Lifton and competes her three mares; Madaline,
Athalia, and Adalia.
Lori Hoos
Ads/Promotion/Hospitality
Lori Hoos trains at Wil-lo Blue farm with her husband (Bill Hoos), daughter (Rebecca Hoos),
and son (Josh Hoos). The Hoos' breed, raise and train horses.
Primarily into Holsteiners, they also have KWPN and
Thoroughbreds. Boasting AHHA Site Champion and Reserve Site
Champion for the 2007.
Lori has helped train riders to receive their USDF Silver Medal. She has also helped her husband train and
successfully ride at the Rolex 3-Day Event numerous times. Bill was selected to train for the World Games in 2004. She
additionally helped her daughter to be selected and ride for the Area IV Young Riders Team. Both Becca and
Bill have ridden to Advanced level in Eventing (on horses the Hoos's trained).
Michael Foster
Secretary, Newsletter
MICHAEL FOSTER.
Michael and his family moved to Tennessee from Southern California in mid-2006, only five months after he started riding Dressage in California with Carol Tice. This return to the saddle after doing some show jumping as a teenager (seemingly a lifetime ago!), has allowed Michael to dive back into his lifelong love for horses.
Since 2007 Michael has enjoyed his work with the CTDA as Secretary, and as Editor for the club’s newsletter, Transitions.
Michael and his two horses, Patriot and Amarillo, train under the watchful eye of USDF Silver Medalist Kerstin Moltmann at Old Hillsboro Manor Equestrian Center in Franklin.
Michael's wife Carolyn and son Adam also ride, and his daughter Natalie attends university at Spelman College in Atlanta. His mother, Millie, enjoys going out to the farm to visit the horses, feed carrots and treats and share in the ‘horse fever’.
Chris Saia
Professionally, I am a chiropractor and acupuncturist. I have ridden horses most all of my life having spent many years showing on the A-circuit including the National Indoors
circuit with hunter/jumpers. My FEI Hanoverian mare Wynona and I have been in training with Garra Walline for six years. In addition to Wynona, I have three other horses, two young warmbloods in training and one retired TB. My husband, Gary Waters accompanies me to horse shows. He's the best groom/handler in the whole world. My horses love him. The rest of the family includes four dogs.
CTDA MEMBERS ASSISTING THE BOARD
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