 Lauren Romanelli is based out of Southern Promise Farm in College Grove, just 25 minutes south of Nashville. Lauren is a 2006 graduate of Murray State University with a degree in Animal/Equine
Science. She is currently continuing her education at Middle Tennessee
State University with the goal of obtaining her teaching certification
in vocational education, and her masters in Equine Science. Lauren grew
up riding hunter/jumpers at rated barns in northern Illinois, working and showing sale horses for her trainers. In college, Lauren moved away from the hunter barns and took up an interest in APHA and AQHA horses. She successfully showed and trained horses in pleasure classes, showmanship, working cattle classes and equitation. During summers, Lauren began a small business of fitting, showing and selling horses for her friends and clients. She created a successful enterprise that thrived on word of mouth advertising.
 Finally achieving her dream of owning her own horse, Lauren started working toward her life long love of eventing. She is currently competing at novice on her Thoroughbred gelding, Southern Expressions (Arizona) and training on SPF's Big Idea (Brandy). Lauren is lucky enough to work with horses full time, riding for several clients and giving lessons. Her specialty has become developing the backyard or pleasure horse into a well-educated, outstanding equine citizen. She determines the owners’ desires for their horse and using a low-pressure, affordable training style, teaches horses a wide variety of skills. Having grown up in lesson barns herself, Lauren’s teaching style varies to meet each students’ needs and helps them to learn and grow at their own rate, helping them to obtain their goals in riding while learning confidence and life skills. Lauren's students range from adult amateurs who aspire to safely enjoy their time with their horse to her "kidlets" (of all ages!) who enjoy a showing a few times a year and building their knowledge of horses and horsemanship through mounted and unmounted lessons, playdays, field trips and clinics. Although Lauren's focus is eventing, her students enjoy showing at local hunter/jumper, AQHA and open shows, and even the occasional event themselves! Lauren continues to take regular lessons with coach Amy Wise and attends clinics whenever possible in order to help herself and her students excel in their riding.  |
