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Rhein River Farm is a small training facility dedicated to training and preparing horses at all levels, from young stock to Grand Prix, for successful showing careers.  Farm owner and trainer, Angela Hecker-Jackson, personally handles and trains all horses with her husband, Keene Jackson.

 

 

                                                         ABOUT ANGELA HECKER-JACKSON

 

SHOW JUMPING

 

A successful show jumper in her native Germany, Angela won the Gold Medal Riding Award in Jumping, the silver medal at the German Young Rider Championships, and Equitation over Fences held at the Volvo World Cup Qualifier in Dortmund.  She has also competed at many international shows throughout Europe, from CSIs to CSIOs, with a second place win at the CSI Aachen Indoor Show, jumping 6’6” ( 2.10 m.) in the puissance. 

 

DRESSAGE

 

After immigrating to the United States, Angela focused on dressage, showing at FEI level at international dressage competitions, including CDIs.  Among other wins, she claimed top honors at the $25,000 Dressage/Jumper Spectacular in Wellington, Florida.

BREEDING

 

Angela has been training young horses out of the family breeding operation for over 20 years.  Their breeding program has produced numerous Grand Prix horses in both dressage and jumping.  Horses of all ages are available for purchase. 

 

Currently accepting horses into training, Angela is also available for clinics, coaching, and lessons.

 

It has been a beautiful fall and I am still able to work the horses at home. Hopefully the weather will hold for just a little while longer so I do not have to move the horses to the indoor until January. Leaving for the H/J Show in Lake St. Louis for the two weeks in Dec. and than the year is pretty much over. It has been a good year and I hope everybody can look back and say that they made it thru the tough times alright.

 

We arrived in Chicago and it rained and rained. The rings are wet and the footing soupy. Rolex settle in and we worked just for a little while in the rain. With the nice cool weather and not gotten out the day of the trailering he was very fresh. It cleared for the jog and I got the first ride in the Prix St. Georg at 8am. The ring was soupy but not slippery. We ended up in 8th place and I was very happy with that since we did have mistakes in the tempis. We came into the Championships in 14th place so I felt like there was a chance to move up a little. On Sunday I had a better ride and we placed 11th and since the Sunday class counted for 60% we ended up in 11th place overall in the championship. Rolex did very well and I was very proud of him.

The following weekend I went to the MSEDA Dressage Show at the Horse Park in Lexington Kentucky with a young horse of my Father Rocco. He won his training level and got high score of of the show with a 76.75%. Rolex had been working so hard to get qualified for the Developing Horse Championship and did so well the weekend before that I took him and just let him have some fun at the Robert Murphy Fall Jumping show. He had a good time winning 3 out of his 4 classes.He really is a jumper by heart. Him and I had so much fun I decided to come back the second week of the jumping show and we won the level 6 (4'3") and placed 5th in the $ 3000,- Rood and Riddle Mini Prix.