Talented
Alex Beaton is an experienced, talented, and successful equine professional. Since the age of 8, Alex has competed in horse sports. She began locally, continuing to provicial level competition, and ultimatley competed at national and internnational levels.
Knowledge
Alex now offers her services as a trainer and coach. She maintains a lesson and training program, conducts clinics, and offers consultations. Alex has an encouraging and engaging style of instruction, a compassionate training style, and a wealth of knowledge gained from a lifetime of experience with horses.
Service
Services include riding instruction in dressage, jumping and cross country either in a regular lesson program, or in a clinic format. Alex also offers consultation and lecturing services on stable management, general horsemanship and new equine purchase.
About Us
Beginning at age 8, Alex has been an avid and extremely successful eventing competitor.
In 1986, She achieved Pony Club “A” level with honors (one of only 2 awarded that year in Canada) and won the Canadian Pony Club three-day event national championships. This success earned her a place on the Canadian team that competed at the Pony Club of Australia’s 150 Jubilee International Event Championship. The team did very well winning gold in dressage and silver overall, and Alex earned a bronze medal in the individual competition.
On the heels of these successes, Alex began seriously competing earning the Horse Trials Nova Scotia provincial champion for preliminary level in 1984, 1985 and 1986. During this time, Alex was honing her equine skills as a working student at Fox Ridge Farm with Jane Fraser, and with Jen Hamilton.
After completing a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture from the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in 1987, Alex continued her equine career as a working student and then barn manager for Mrs. M.A. Laframboise of the Farm of the Mountain in Luskville, Que. In both 1987 and 1988, Alex won the preliminary division at Bromont Horse Trials, Quebec, and was long listed for the Canadian Olympic team in eventing in 1988. Alex continued to successfully compete in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick until 1990 when she began to focus on coaching, earning her NCCP coaching level 1 and coaching level 2 technical.
Continuing her career-long involvement with Pony Club, Alex has been the head coach for the West Valley Pony Club since 1998 and is currently the Nova Scotia Show Jumping Chairperson. In 2019, Alex became a National “A” examiner for the Canadian Pony Club having served as a Junior “A” examiner for some time.
Presently, Alex maintains an active lesson program teaching dressage, jumping and eventing to students at a variety of ages and levels and is a popular clinician. She is also sought after as a consultant for riders seeking new mounts, stable management concerns, and general horsemanship. Alex is well known for her impressive knowledge and experience as a coach and trainer and is widely appreciated for her encouraging and motivating teaching style.
WHAT WE OFFER
What Can Alex Help You With?
Lessons, Training, Clinics, Consulting, Lectures and more. See below for more details.
What is Eventing, Dressage, Show Jumping, Cross-country?
Dressage – a French term most commonly translated as training, which involves the execution of patterns and movements in an arena of specified size, designed to show skill of both horse and rider.Show jumping – riding horses over a course of jumps in an arena with penalty points for time and jumping faults.
Cross-country – an endurance test that forms one of the phases of the sport of eventing. It involves jumping natural obstacles (logs, ditches, streams, banks, water) in a particular order and within a time limit in forests and fields.
Eventing – (also known as three-day eventing or horse trials) is an equestrian event where a single horse and rider combination compete against other competitors across the three disciplines of dressage, cross-country and show jumping.
Awards and Accomplishments
• Pony Club “A” level with honors – 1986• Canadian Pony Club three-day event national champion – 1986
• Canadian team member – Pony Club of Australia’s 150 Jubilee International Event Championship-1986
• Horse Trials Nova Scotia provincial champion for preliminary division – 1984, 1985, 1986
• NS Equestrian Athlete of the Year – 1986-87
• First place preliminary division at Bromont Horse Trials, Quebec -1987, 1988
• Long listed for Canadian Olympic Eventing team – 1988
• Coach of PEI Atlantic Coast Games eventing team – 1991
• Inducted in Yarmouth Sports Hall of Fame
• Coach of Dr. Nicole MacHattie, NS Horse Trials pre-training champion, 2016, and training level champion – 2018
• Coach of Mirah Stultz, NS Horse Trials junior pre-training champion– 2017
• NSEF Volunteer of the Year for work with the NS Pony Club and organization of Canadian Pony Club Show Jumping Championships
• NCCP level 1 coach and level 2 technical coach
Services that Alex offers include:
• Individual and group lessons – from beginner to advanced students, age 8 and up. Training in dressage, jumping and cross country• Training and development of horses in a variety of disciplines
• Available for clinics in dressage, jumping and cross country – willing to travel
• Consulting for horse and rider compatibility for new equine purchases
• Lecturer on general horsemanship and stable management
Develop Your Skills.
Services include riding instruction in dressage, jumping and cross country either in a regular lesson program, or in a clinic format. Alex also offers consultation and lecturing services on stable management, general horsemanship and new equine purchase.
Dressage
Show Jumping
Cross-Country
Eventing
Contact MeLearn From A Professional.
Alex maintains an active lesson program teaching dressage, jumping and eventing to students at a variety of ages and levels and is a popular clinician. She is also sought after as a consultant for riders seeking new mounts, stable management concerns, and general horsemanship. Alex is well known for her impressive knowledge and experience as a coach and trainer and is widely appreciated for her encouraging and motivating teaching style. Alex maintains an active lesson program teaching dressage, jumping and eventing to students at a variety of ages and levels and is a popular clinician. She is also sought after as a consultant for riders seeking new mounts, stable management concerns, and general horsemanship. Alex is well known for her impressive knowledge and experience as a coach and trainer and is widely appreciated for her encouraging and motivating teaching style
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OUR AWESOME CLIENTS
Client Testimonials
Don’t take our word for it – here’s what our clients say:
It has been my pleasure to have Alexandra Beaton as my teacher, mentor, and advisor for all things equine for the past 15 years. As an instructor, she is always encouraging and kind with an emphasis on continuing development of both horse and rider. She is honest, professional, and knowledgeable in her approach to both riding instruction and training. Alex is continuously striving to improve her ability to meet the needs of her clients whether human or equine. I highly recommend Alex as a teacher and trainer. I cannot imagine engaging in my riding pursuits without her guidance.
Alison Arthur
With almost 30 years riding experience, I have had many different coaches. Alex Beaton is by far the best and most dedicated. She first started coaching me when I was riding my pony, and trying my hand at eventing. I had no idea what I didn’t know, until she showed me the light! Once I grew out of my pony I moved up to the young Standardbred/Arabian cross….not your usual crossbred, and yet she helped me achieve my “A” level in pony club while also winning overall high point for Horse Trials Nova Scotia (Training level) multiple times. I threw a new challenge at Alex in 2005, a fiery Standardbred/thoroughbred which had been born in my yard. She helped us also attain high point for Horse Trials Nova Scotia (Pre-training and Training level). No matter what obstacles we faced, Alex had a solution. And if she didn’t have the solution, she brought in other coaches to help us and together we figured it out. Alex has built me into equestrian I am today. Her dedication, hard work, meticulous horsemanship and stable management skills are transferred to each student, creating well rounded equestrians, not just people who can ride a horse.
Alex will treat you with the same respect and commitment, whether you are competing against yourself to be the best you can be, or travelling throughout the maritimes or venturing to Quebec/Ontario. She will always be there for you.
I’m now starting my fourth horse with Alex as my coach, and I’m excited to see what the future brings! If you’ve ever thought about taking formal lessons, or even just a weekend clinic, I implore you to phone Alex Beaton, you’ll see the improvement after just one lesson!
Dr Nicole MacHattie
I have ridden horses my whole life both competitively and for pleasure. For the past fifteen years, I have
worked with Alex as my coach and trainer with three different horses. With her extensive talent and
knowledge, she has helped me develop my skills first in the hunter ring, and currently in dressage. I love
working with Alex. Particularly as an adult rider, I find her kind and encouraging teaching style helps to
build my confidence in myself and in my horse. Over the years, I’ve had a variety of instructors, and
would count Alex among the very best!
Karen Giffen-Balcom
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Contact
4533 Brooklyn Street, Somerset, B0P 1E0 – 1.902.824.0908 – info@alexandra-beaton.com