NAWD Professional Cathy Drumm
Cathy Drumm has been training and teaching professionally for over 35 years. Her training philosophy is Individual based. Every horse and rider is different. Step by step. Break everything down into its smallest parts to create a series of achievable goals, which lead up a ladder towards bigger goals. Don’t set a rigid time schedule. Respect each horse and rider’s individual path.
Cathy has competed in Hunter/Jumper but always maintained a strong interest in Trail Riding/Hunter Pacing/Pony Club. She has coached at the WNEPHA Dressage Series and WDAA World Championships.
Cathy’s students competing in the Hunter/Jumper world have won 4th in the USEF/PESSOA Medal Finals at Harrisburg, 3rd in the HBO/Marshall & Sterling Jr. Medal, Top Twenty in the USET/BET Talent Search Finals at Gladstone, N.J., Winner of the Katie Battison Horsemanship Award at the NEHC Medal Finals, and Top placings at WNEPHA Finals multiple years from 1995-present.
the NEHC Medal Finals, and Top placings at WNEPHA Finals multiple years from 1995-present.
Cathy is a USHJA Certified Trainer, WDAA Train the Trainers Graduate, MA Licensed Instructor, USEF Professional member, WDAA Professional Member, NAWD Professional Member.
Cathy offers clinics, lessons, and training for all horses and rider levels. She has trained hundreds of horses.
Western Dressage Thoughts and Goals:
Cathy’s goal with Western Dressage is to teach it to help riders achieve better harmony with their horse. She achieves this by helping them understand what balance, suppleness and obedience on a properly conditioned, happy, horse should feel like and then explain the steps required to get there.
Cathy offers a 10% discount to NAWD members.
Cathy currently is working on a book and has information she likes to share on her blog https://cathy-drumm.squarespace.com/cathys-blog/ and on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ccdrumm
Western dressage has given me access to a whole group of riders that I couldn’t reach before. I have always used Classical Dressage techniques to train or retrain my horses and students so it made perfect sense to apply those techniques to Western Riding. During the course of educating myself about WD I have found that there are some things that I like better about the competition aspects of it from Traditional Dressage. Mostly I like the emphasis on lightness. I have been greatly disturbed by the forced frames that have become so common and rewarded in TD.”
— Cathy Drumm
