Blenheim Stud is a family-run Equestrian Livery Yard, offering livery within quality stabling, situated just 3 miles from Waterford city. Clean and relaxed with horse centred care at the heart of our business. We also offer private lessons and host Equestrian Clinics with world renowned National and International Professionals.

Tara is a professional riding instructor with 20 years’ experience bringing out the best from riders and their horses. She holds a BHSII (Level 4 Senior Coach) Professional Teaching qualification as well as a wealth of equestrian knowledge and expertise, having been involved with horses and ponies since childhood. Tara keeps up to date with continual professional development, and is currently studying Integrated Equine Massage Therapy with Equi-Ed.

Anna is a qualified AQHA Event Manager and has organised a number of AQHA Affiliated National Shows, Clinics and Special Events.

Eilish Fisher is a qualified equine sport’s massage therapist and McTimoney-Corley equine and canine physical therapist. Growing up on a farm in rural Vermont, Eilish has worked with and owned horses since childhood. Her years working with competition and leisure horses and in particular, hunters, sparked a keen desire to learn the best ways to promote muscle recovery, strength, flexibility and above all, willingness and comfort in the horses that were in her care.She founded her practice Stablehands in 2009.Past clients include Dublin Horse Show winners, hunters, national hunt horses, and national champions in various disciplines. Some of her favourite clients include rescue horses, dogs and even a cow!Eilish strongly believes that every horse owner/rider should have access to basic massage and palpation techniques and that by learning these, a deeper empathy and understanding is achieved between horse and owner/rider.Eilish currently provides clinics on basic massage for the horse owner.

Glenn has been working with horses from a young age, from breakers all the way up to top level horses in both Ireland and the UK.Glenn is a BHS qualified instructor and has trained to Prix St. George Dressage level in the UK. He worked and trained with Daniel Watson and Nicola Naylor, from preliminary to Grand Prix level.Glenn is driven by a passion to further promote and advance the sport of dressage in Ireland, through his coaching and training, to reaching Grand Prix.

Paul Dietz is a humble Horseman and not “just another” clinician. Paul’s knowledge of horses is exceptionally thorough. Moreover, he is gifted with communication and teaching skills reaching far beyond the average and into the handful of “top professional” horsemen today. He has developed a very personal teaching method about the incredible journey that can lead to a oneness between horse and rider– developing an effortless, soft connection, with the horses mind, body, and feet, ultimately creating a oneness between horse an rider. Paul is in touch with the internal, invisible intent a true horseman must have which initiates the connection between horse and human before any external moves are evident.Paul rode with Buck Brannaman when he was just 14 years old. Even as a young teen Paul was sensitive to how Buck’s horses behaved, “more with him and less distracted,” comments Dietz. Paul did everything he could to ride as often as possible with Buck. His exposure to this horsemanship resulted in a commitment to work with horses for a better change, not only in the horses but within himself. In time it became clear to Paul that the horses were a mirror of who you are as a person, good or bad as it may be, and that they don’t lie. As a result Paul began to change his focus for himself and the type of person he wanted to be. Greatly influenced by Buck, eventually the relationship evolved into a 3 year internship with him traveling the country and learning from thousands of horses. That close handed work with Buck, as well as learning from others such as Ray Hunt, Bill Dorrance, an others over the past 20-plus years, proved the foundation and path for refinement of Paul’s own horsemanship skills and style. Though Paul would never brag, this personal style has landed Paul numerous awards for Trainer of the Year, and recognition by many top professionals around the country.Horses were always Paul’s connection to his real self. They were the only vehicle that allowed him to break through his shyness barrier finding peace and comfort without effort in their presence. Initially, teaching was difficult for Paul but slowly he began to break down what others had taught him and developed his own stile of teaching. His gift became evident and now can be partially defined by his use of vivid analogies and word pictures to bring the language of great horsemanship into everyone’s realm of understanding. In this way he can articulate the invisible concepts, the intent we have for our horses that is so essential to the partnership we desire as well as teach about the “little things” which mean so much to them.Paul was invited to ride in the Tom Dorrance benefit in Ft. Worth, hosted by Ray Hunt, and there he was encouraged by a prominent influential to share his ideas and talents publicly by presenting clinics. He had something special to offer. That encouragement, as well as his own feeling that there was an insufficient amount of quality horseman and teachers available , lead Paul to begin traveling the country to share his knowledge of horses through large an small workshops. He developed his own style which includes a personally developed format combining a balance of group time, private time and personal time all within the confines of a clinic presentation.Paul offers his students a feel, a soft connection, first between himself and his students and then between those students and their horse. “A feel that is effortless can connect with the mind, feet and body of a horse”, says Paul. This is essential to slow down, speed up, move the feet forward, back, right and left as well as up or down. This freedom of movement is essential to any discipline. “It is really nice to show people another way of handling horses, more suited to the horse,” comments Dietz, “the horse was not born to carry the load. It isn’t natural. I try to teach not just good horsemanship but great horsemanship for both the rider and the horse.” Without great horsemanship “problems with a horse are one accident away from people getting hurt. Everyone wants to get along with his horse but sometimes they do things not to get along. They get so focused on the end result they are trying to achieve that they don’t see the problem.”Paul is based in Phoenix, AZ, but offers clinics and demonstrations from coast-to-coast as well as Europe. His clinics are geared toward the ability and interests of the participants. He doesn’t have a preference about whether the participants use English or Western saddles or what discipline they prefer. There isn’t a discipline that doesn’t involve moving the horses’ feet. Paul directs the learning process creating theenvironment for understanding the importance of that control and how to achieve it effortlessly. Only with that control can we hope to hold the key to timing, placement and direction essential for the job at hand.Paul Dietz is a humble man and a humble horseman. He finalizes his teaching sessions by asking with interest and compassion, “How can I be a better teacher?” And he means it “as humility leads to better horsemanship in every student.”