Ellie Celarek
Trainer & Owner
A bit about
Ellie Celarek & Classical Riding
Once Upon A Time,
Ellie started taking riding lessons when she was five years old and shortly after, dedicated her life to the study and riding of the horse. She was active in her 4-H group competing and earning Grand Champion Working Hunter Over Fences at the Ohio state fair at age thirteen. Age thirteen was also when she began her teaching career in equitation. Then Ellie was a member of the USEA Area VIII Young Riders Program and from there went off to college to major in equine management.
While attending Midway College she also trained and studied in the United Kingdom at Bishop Burton College enrolled in the Bsc. (hons) Equine Science Program. Bishop Burton is known for producing excellent,well educated and capable riders, instructors, trainers, coaches and breeders. Fields of study included equine bio mechanics, the equestrian athlete, training and exercise, reproduction & stud management, veterinary science, therapy and rehabilitation, alternative therapies, and advances in equine science and technology. Bishop also included riding instruction, and the completion of her internship. Ellie was also given the opportunity to ride the instructors personal horses to further her training in eventing and dressage. Ellie rode in the Advanced Instructors (soon to be BHS instructors) classes and rode several advanced level eventing horses at Bishop as well as upper level show jumpers and dressage horses. Also while attending Midway College Ellie was a member of the Eventing Team, Dressage Team , IHSA Hunt, and IHSA Stock Seat teams riding in the open divisions winning numerous high point rider and high point team awards.
Classical Riding LLC was started by Ellie after completing her degree at Midway College; helping people in many disciplines attain their equestrian goals. Although she specializes in Dressage and Eventing, she competed in AERC endurance rides on an arabian stallion for a season and also rounded up a section for a polocrosse tournament. Currently Classical Riding LLC leases horses to students, and has begun a small breeding program to develop talented and good minded eventing horses for the eventing community and to personally chase those upper level goals.
Accomplished trainers and competitors Ellie has trained under:
Dagmar Zimmerman-Classical Dressage
Jerry Schwartz-Dressage
Jimmy Wofford-Eventing
Karen O'Connor-Eventing
Dorothy Trapp Crowel-Eventing
Manuel Roncollo-Eventing
Cathy Wieshhoff-Eventing
Mark Combs-Eventing
Mary King – Eventing
Bobby Dryer-Hunters
Robin Walker - Eventing
Shelby Hume-Reining/Natural Horsemanship
Ann Paling-BHS (British Horse Society) examiner/instructor
Classical Riding's mission is "Creating value in horses and improving the
skills of riders in all manners of
horsemanship."
Pictures
Princess Song Of Joy 2018
Clients whale watching
Endurance
Working student Terah Primack
Princess Song Of Joy AECs
Picture credit JJ Jayhawk Sillman
FWF Princess Shatka wins South Farm HT for the second time.
Georgian Grand Horse Of The Year for eventing FWF Princess Shatka
Joy, Shatka's younger sister also gets Georgian Grande horse of the year for eventing . This is a hunter pace in Florida.