Royale Equestrian Centre
Striving to develop/maintain happy, quality, well trained horses & to provide horse owners/riders with a fun and safe place to ride, where we will treat your horse like one of our own!
Meet The Team!
Owners/Operators
Emily Bertrand
Emily rides and trains full time, teaches part time and runs the barn with her hubby Laurence Jean-Pierre. Now 26, Emily has had a passion for horses from a young age, it all started when she had her first ride on a horse when she was just 4 years old and ever since then she never stopped riding! For years she took lessons at a local barn in Quebec and would spend weekends riding at her aunts farm. At the age of 10 it was apparent this wasn't going to be a faze and she started working at her aunts stable. Over the years she then moved on to training and working at various local stables in the Ottawa area gaining great knowledge and experience from working as a trail guide, to exercising, breaking and training horses, barn manager, and instructor/freelance coach.
She has done everything from western pleasure, hunters, fox hunting and dressage but her main focus is in eventing and she enjoys developing young horses. Emily is working hard and has been lucky to train under some great riders and coaches including; Bruce Davidson, Sandi Patterson, Jill Henselwood, David Wilding Davies just to name a few! She continues to ride and train on a full time basis, she has a strong desire to succeed and trains under the tutelage and guidance of FEI Course Designer, Level 3 Coach and former International Event Rider Paul Popiel.
Dawn Patterson
Dawn is Emily's mother and she works full time as manager of the agricultural surveys in the government. In her spare time she takes care and manages the administration side of our business, not to mention on her days off she is our trailer driver and hauls our big 6 horse trailer to all the shows! Dawn also had a passion for horses at a young age and would spend all her time riding the neighbor's horses and competing in local shows as well as being a veterinary assistant when she was in her twenties.
Coaches
Paul Popiel
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Amanda Boone
Amanda also known as “Mandy” joined our team in October 2008 and is Equine Canada Certified Level One Coach. She graduated with a Diploma in Equine Studies at the Kemptville Campus in 2001 and then went on to work for several Level 2/3 Coaches over several years including two-time Olympian Show Jumper, Jay Hayes. With years of experience and knowledge gained from some of the industry’s top professionals, Amanda passes on this knowledge to her student’s weather they are a novice riders or more experienced horsemen.
Amanda Boone manages and coaches our very successful summer camps as well as coaches our students at the local schooling and trillium show, and runs our Equine Canada Learn to Ride Program including several other special interest clinics at our barn. Along with teaching riding lesson, Amanda with her husband and two boys, breed, train and compete their Canadian horses in breed shows and in the Open classes with great success.
Meaghan Kearny-Pearson
Meaghan has been teaching at Royale Equestrian Centre since April 2009. She is friendly, patient, and outgoing and lessons with Meghan are always fun and educational.
Her love for horses started at the young age of eight, when she first started taking riding lessons. This early beginning has grown into a life long passion and career. Over the past fifteen years, Meaghan has taken lessons and clinics with some of the industry’s top professionals and continues to work hard to further her education and career.
She has done everything from western pleasure to competing in the hunter’s but her main focus and interest is in the dressage ring and breaking and training young horses. Meaghan attended The
This year Meaghan will be taking her Therapeutic Riding Instructors Exam and beginning a new chapter in her teaching career and is planning on taking the Ontario Equestrian Federation Coach 1 exam within the next year as well. Meagan is also looking forward to training and bringing along her new thoroughbred gelding, a winning race horse that she acquired as a rescue from a race track in
Kim Barkley
scratch right up to competing Advanced International 3 Star Events, we are honored to have such a wonderful coach on our team!
Paul was born in Krakow, Poland in 1935 and immigrated to Canada in 1949. He first started eventing in 1965 and soon was riding at the highest level of the sport on horses that he started himself. Paul was short listed for the Canadian Olympic 3-Day team in 1976 and then again in 1984. He is an Equine Canada Level 3 Eventing Coach and was recipient of the “Entraineur par Excellence” award from the Quebec Equestrian Federation in 1997, 1998 and 1999. Having been instructed by top coaches himself his students have successfully competed at all levels of eventing. Paul is also an EC “R” (cross-country) course designer and retired FEI course designer. In 1990 the USCTA awarded Paul the PHD (post hole digger) Trophy for the innovative cross-country course designer and builder. His courses have included the 1987 Pan American 3-Day Event course in Indianapolis, Indiana; 1989-90 Circle K International Horse Trials at Trojan Horse Ranch in Phoenix, Arizona and the 1993 NAYR Championships at Tempel Farm, Wadsworth, Illinois.
Amanda Boone
This year Amanda will be coaching our students at the TGIF and OESS series horse shows as well as running our day camps. Amanda also runs our Equine Canada Learn to Ride Program and several other special interest clinics at our barn."
Kim Barkley
Kim has had the fortunate experience of being a yoga instructor for many years. She is patient and compassionate, she can easily adapt her teaching skills to each individual and makes her lessons fun and always ends them on a positive note. Kim has been riding since a young age and her first experience working with horses was at a trail riding facility when she was 10 years old, she has been coached by some of the best coaches in the greater Ottawa Area and has since found her home at Royale Equestrian Centre where she teaches beginner to intermediate riders. Kim has been riding for the past 25 years and has owned her own horses and leased others, including successfully competing in hunter and dressage rings.
Miranda Lepore
Miranda is a Jr. coach here at Royale Equestrian Centre and is working toward attaining her Equine Canada Coaching Certification she is excellent with childern and beginner riders and teaches all the lunge/lead line lessons. Miranda works under the coaching and guidance of Emily Bertand and Amanda Boone and is also an avid rider and competitor, she has been riding for over 8 years and has a passion and drive to learn and succeed.
