Les Vogt                      

NRCHA Hall of Fame

Idaho Horse Expo is pleased to announce NRCHA Hall of Fame Trainer Les Vogt will be one of our featured clinicians for 2019! With over 55 years of accomplishments and experience as a Master of Educational Horsemanship and a Western Equine Technician, Les has held clinics all over the world from South America to Australia! 

Butch Mowdy

Equine Kindergarten

Butch Mowdy is the heart of Equine Kindergarten which is located in Emmett Idaho. The teachings are based around the principles of Ray Hunt and Tom Dorrance as Butch understand them. We teach horses how to learn, soft quiet and relaxed, no sense of urgency. Butch feels that these baby horses can do some incredible things after they find out we will wait for them. We are trying to make saddle horses, so everything he does on the ground can be copied sitting on their back. We fix a lot of troubled horses with these same principles. Idaho Horse Expo is excited to bring his teachings to our great event. You won’t want to miss his "baby" classes throughout the weekend. 
  

Nadine Schwartsman

USDF Gold Medalist

Nadine Schwartsman is an international Grand Prix Dressage rider and trainer.  Originally from Germany where she received her superb dressage education following the classical German principles, she moved to the United States in 2008 and obtained her US citizenship in 2015. 

A USDF Gold, Silver and Bronze Medalist, Nadine owns and operates her own world class show stable Les Bois Dressage, LLC in Eagle, ID where she lives with husband Roman and son Nikolai.

Nadine raises and trains US-bred horses into happy and healthy internationally competitive High Performance athletes.  She hopes to represent the United States in Olympic and World Equestrian Games in the future. 

Shelby Rosholt

New Generation Trainer

Shelby Rosholt is a new generation trainer with a heart for all horses and special fondness for the Mustang breed. Her desire is to make a difference in the life of the horse and improve the horsemanship and the relationship with the horse for her clients.

She grew up riding a difficult first horse that most would have labeled a “problem horse”. At the age of 9, Rosholt attended her first horsemanship clinic and has continued to gain knowledge over the years from many great horsemen and women, attending clinics and interning. Most teaching the ways and techniques like that of the great horseman, Ray Hunt. The skills and understanding of the horse that she gained from attending clinics launched her knowledge base far beyond her peers.   

 In her early years, she participated in 4H showing horses in all riding disciplines and continued through High School. Rosholt started putting her training skills to use gentling mustangs in the Teens and Oregon Mustangs Program at the age of 13.  Once she turned 18, she moved onto the Adult Extreme Mustang Makeovers, and placed in the top five three out of four times. She also received the Champion Young Gun Award twice. Shelby continues to show horses in all disciples and at all levels.