My name is Jordyn Shaw. I am from Battle Ground, Washington, a small town north of Portland, Oregon. I have a love and passion for horses that developed at a young age. I started learning dressage at the age of 10, and have since ridden and competed through Intermediate I. I have my USDF bronze and silver medals. After graduating with my Bachelor’s in Accounting, I decided to take the big step towards my future dressage career and move to California to accompany Mette and her incredible horses as her groom/working student in March of 2021. It has been a fun and exciting journey so far, with new opportunities arising every day. Working with Mette, I have learned about all the great details that go into the quality care of her top horses. One of the biggest takeaways from my time with Mette is that being a professional in this business is only 10% riding, and 90% everything else. With Mette’s guidance, I have realized that if you have the motivation, dedication, and drive, you can make it anywhere in this world if you just take the chance and do it. The education and experience that I am gaining from working with Mette continues to grow each day, and I am looking forward to many more opportunities with her in the future.
Adequan Global Dressage Festival - Wellington, FL
Adequan Global Dressage Festival, CDI 4*
It feels incredibly exciting to go down the centerline at the @adequanglobaldressagefestival in Wellington, FL. The atmosphere here is so inspiring with lots of great horses, riders, trainer and judges. Sadly due to Covid-19 we are missing the big crowd of people that normally come to watch the show, but we are so lucky that we are able to make this happen and that we are able to compete.
Finally the CDI has started to really kick off the 2021 show season. My horse feels fit for fight and except for my broken kneecap I’m more than ready to go!
I’m very grateful to have Debbie McDonald here to train with. She is an outstanding coach and a long time friend of mine. We all need someone who can tell us to ride better and push us a bit further every day!
Thank you to all my amazing sponsors who are also part of this journey and of course to the co-owners of Dzeko, Robin Cathey and Cory Walkey!
First show of the season in Wellington, FL.
With a fracture in my kneecap, I did the best I could and rode my beautiful horse Dzeko in a great test to win the National GP today at Global! Thanks to Debbie McDonald, the best of the best! The part owners Cory Walkey and Robin Cathey, love you both sooo much!!! I thought GP was hard enough .. one broken leg doesn’t make it better! Forward to CDI 4* next week! I’m on it!! Cross your fingers!
Here's to a brighter 2021!
Dear all of you,
I wanted to start by thanking you from the bottom of my heart for all the support, friendship and loyalty that I have experienced this past year.
As we all know, 2020 turned out to be a very challenging year on so many levels. Many people are struggling and way to many have lost their lives or someone close to them. It’s sometimes hard to look forward, past this tragedy that has affected all of us. But at the same time, we need to stay together to support each other and make the best of every day. We have learned more than ever, not to take anything for granted.
As a quick recap of 2020 - It started off, as every new year, with high goals and lots of enthusiasm! In the beginning of the year I got a new, very exciting addition to my string of horses. Dzeko! I had been looking for a while for my next Grand Prix horse, someone who could fill the shoes of my last one, Marron. Those were big shoes to fill but thanks to my dear friend Cory Walkey and Robin Cathey a new partnership was created and made this possible.
For what it looked like in the very beginning of the year, this was great timing for my new horse to arrive in the US, to make it just in time for the new show season to start. Sadly this all changed due to the Covid-19, and the well planned show schedule was shortly after set on hold for everyone. On the positive note, I was able to really get to know my new horse and focus on building a strong relationship.
This year has now started off with even higher goals and even more enthusiasm!
My other horse, Chrevi’s Ramour aka Ram, is also developing very nicely. I took him out in the CDI Small tour, as we were able to get out into the showring a few times this fall. We are working on and focusing on making it up to the Grand Prix level but in the meantime I’m proud to announce that he was awarded 5th place in the Nation as “Dressage Horse of the Year End Award” in Intermediate 1!
So while at home, with most clinics and events canceled due to the pandemic, I have been busy with a very nice group of clients and horses in my training program at Arroyo Del Mar, where I’m based.
I really enjoy teaching but as much I love my clients, I’m still in this for the competitions and the development of my own horses and riding. For me, teaching and riding goes hand in hand and the more inspired I am the more I can give to my students.
As for so many of us on the west coast, the big shows with very large number of riders, will still be in Wellington, Florida. I’m very excited to say that this year, I am on that list as I will be in Wellington for a few month starting right in the beginning of the year.
Dzeko and Ram will both be going and will be accompanied by a client’s horse from San Diego. In Florida I will be training with my longtime coach Debbie McDonald, that I haven’t had a chance to ride with in a long time.
This year, the winter circuit in Wellington will certainly be different from past years with lots of spectator, vendors etc. We all have to do our best to make sure we can manage this safely so that we get a chance to go down that centerline again!
So wherever you are in the world, stay safe and healthy and keep working towards your goals.
I hope I will see many more of you in person soon!
All the best,
Mette
Happy New Year!
Bring it on 2021! Happy New Year to all my friends, family, clients and sponsors! I will be in Florida for the first part of the new year with my two great horses to train and compete. I’m very excited about this opportunity and looking forward to kick start the new year with a great show season!
Merry Christmas!
Wishing you all a very Merry, Happy and Healthy Christmas! May your holiday be filled with love and laughter, friends and family..of course with a safe distance to each other!
Love, Mette
2020 Dressage Horse of the Year Awards
I’m very pleased and happy to announce that Chrevi’s Ramour is being ranked 5th in the nation in Intermediate 1 as the 2020 Dressage Horse of the Year is being finalized!
It’s been a strange year in so many ways and it’s more important than ever to keep focus on the future and work forward. It’s an honor to me to be in the top 5 out of such a large group of horses in the US.
Chrevi’s Ramour
Owned by: Mette Rosencrantz and Cory Walkey
Stay safe and carry on
Dear All Of you!
I should have written something long ago…but as so often time went away, and the thought of doing it never happened!
Once again, not sure where to start??
For most of us, we celebrated the new year, and was looking forward to so many fun things that was going to happen in 2020. Places to go, shows to attend, clinics, friends and family to visit…Just name it. 2020 was going to be a better year, and we were so ready! We started, made reservations, had a plan, and with a snap of a finger it all went away!! How could this happen!????
I don’t have to mention all people out there who have had such a hard time! Losing so much, and will still struggle . Some will never come back, and I unfortunately think that it will never be the same. I never take any day for granted that I have my health, and that I’m still working, doing what I love to do!
I wish that could be the case for everyone!
In my personal life all is pretty good! I have my two great horses, Ram and my new horse Dzeko. Dzeko is owned by me, Robin Cathey, and Cory Walkey. Thanks to their support I now have him in my barn!! It’s a lovely gelding that I was hoping to show successfully in Grand Prix this season. Not sure when that will be???
I’m getting much appreciated help from Steffen Peters here at Arroyo Del Mar, San Diego, and I’m very inspired by him and thankful for his great help!!!
Ram is doing well!! He is a solid small tour horse, and is working his way up to Grand Prix. It's a fun journey, but still a bit to go, before he is ready to show on that level!
I have nice hard working clients, and I’m back to doing clinics again, so hopefully things can go back one day!
Anna, my Best Beautiful Anna Blomdahl. My best friend that has been with me for almost 20 years, is moving back to Sweden. She has a wonderful husband, Paul, one of a kind, and two lovely children, Isabelle and Oliver, and they are all leaving. How sad is that???
Not only was Anna the best working student. She then became my personal groom and assistant, and now a great horse women, rider and trainer! Anna is also the one that takes ALL the most perfect pictures, and has done it for so long. She has the best eye, and would do super as a photographer! You have to have talent to capture the moment when it’s there. Anna has that skill! So to kiss Anna and her beautiful family goodbye will be a hard one! I wish her all the best of everything in her journey of life!!!
To speculate what will happen from here when it comes to shows, clinics, events and all the rest, has the same question marks for all of us! I will continue to ride, train, teach, just hoping that we all will do our best to be safe and stay safe. Social distance, face mask, wash our hands….and….. This is not a joke! But life has to go on!
I hope I can stay in touch one way or the other, but please send me an old safe email: mrosencrantz@hotmail.com, when you need to get hold of me, or call 310 629 2279. there are so many places today where I get mail/messengers that sometimes I find it loooong after it was sent.
Good luck to All of you, in whatever you are doing! One day……
Best wishes,
Mette
Time to let go
It’s never easy to say goodbye to a well ridden, perfectly fitted pair of boots.! I loved my boots and I pretty much lived in them, day in and day out…!
