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Meet Sally


​When I was five my parents bought a farm in Oxford, 
PA and I started riding.  I soon joined the local Pony 
Club and was introduced to the sport of eventing.  

Additionally, I showed ponies in the hunter divisions 
and also fox hunted; both sports helped me develop 
as an all-around horsewoman.

By my mid teens, I completed my first one-star 
three-day event and continued to move up the levels. 
At 20, I traveled to England to compete at the 
Badminton Horse Trials, stayed in England that year, 
and completed the Burghley Horse Trials in 
September. 

During that stay in England I bought Strike-A-Light 
following Spring. When I returned home in 1986, I took
and then completed the Badminton Horse Trials the a 
job working as a stockbroker at Merrill Lynch, while 
continuing to compete at the highest levels of the 
sport, including numerous runs at the Rolex Kentucky 
four-star event.In 1991, I won the Essex Three-Day with Castle Cay and soon 
after, announced my engagement to Nat Cousins; we were 
married on July 6th (needless to say there were no competitions 
that weekend).  I continued to produce event horses and started 
catch riding horses for other riders, winning the Bromont Two-
Star on Drizzle, and competing him successfully in many three-
star events.

After 16 years at Merrill Lynch, I decided to become a 
professional and devote myself exclusively to my riding career.  
In 2005 I purchased property in Aiken, SC so I could compete 
and provide instruction for the three months of winter when 
Pennsylvania is covered in snow and ice.   Thanks to a 
successful competition schedule and the depth of experience I 
garnered as an amateur and a professional, I have been ranked 
among the top 10 riders on the US Eventing Leaderboard for the
last six years.  

I have relished competing at the top levels but I have equally 
enjoyed the time spent training and instructing students and 
their horses. Quite often I draw from my own lessons with Mike 
Plumb, Bruce Davidson and Torrance Watkins, and because I 
believe in drawing on other disciplines’ strengths, I have also 
ridden with Frank Chapot, Anne Kursinski, and George Morris. 
My dressage training has been with Gunnar Ostergaard, 
Donnan Sharp, and Scott Hassler.




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