About Konza Prairie Dressage
and its owner, Jennifer Mosier

Born in 1971 in Anchorage, Alaska, I have lived in many places in the United States, as well as Germany and Canada.

Horses have been a common thread in my family for many generations. My grandfather, JD Krell, worked with horses on the farm. He participated in a family Annie-Oakley-style act as part of the Bronco Krell Wild West Show. My mother inherited her love of horses from him as well as her grandfather, Leo Craft, who worked with horses all his life. She continued riding in her adult life and I was introduced to horses at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Here, I began my riding education as a member of the Fiddlers’ Green Pony Club and as a junior member of the Fort Leavenworth Fox Hunt where the two Masters of the Fox Hunt Sam Hines and George Hogue kindly allowed the participation of a small group of children on very suitable ponies. There were three of us and I remember every ride. I also remember how Mom warmed our toes on really cold days.

I spent three years in Germany where my mother, my sister and I took weekday lessons in dressage and weekend lessons in jumping. My sister and I also participated on a vaulting team. We rode on one joint Fox Hunt. My father taught my sister and I to ski in Germany; the Alps were kind to us as we are still alive to tell the tales. Camping, fishing and hiking gave us a wonderful taste of a beautiful country. I have many fond memories of Germany.

I went to high school in the small rural Kansas town of Chapman. There were 87 people in my graduating class. There were no locks on any of the school lockers as none were needed. There really are some safe places in the world and I am happy to have experienced it. I went to University in Manhattan, Kansas.

My riding experience includes a wide variety of experiences. I love to Fox Hunt and I am a graduate HA pony clubber. I have been on a vaulting team, briefly ridden & shown western pleasure and trail, shown hunter/jumpers and equitation, was a working student for Olympic Dressage rider Cindy Ishoy and her husband Neil for three years, and for Olympic Dressage rider Evi Strasser for almost a year. I am grateful for the chance I had to learn to ride and train the upper levels. I took a three-year-old horse with me and came home with a Grand Prix horse.

I have been working to establish a breeding program on the family farm in Kansas, hence the name Konza Prairie Dressage. Konza is a Cheyenne Indian word for Kansas; it means "people of the south wind." This part of the state is high prairie desert. It can get very cold in the winter and desert hot in the summer. We currently have two adult stallions, 11 mares (ranging from suckling to 21 years old), two geldings and one two-year-old colt.

Currently, I teach clinics, breed, ship semen, feed horses, ride and train. I plan to show my stallions this fall and winter (2008) when breeding season, hay, and the weather slow down.

Thank you for visiting my website and to everyone breeding to my stallions: thank you for your acquaintance and your patience.

Jen

 

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