North American Western Dressage Judge
Angela Paltram
A native of Austria, Angela began riding at a very early age. While growing up and pursuing her riding goals in Austria she was fortunate to receive tutelage from Ernst Bachinger, a former chief-rider and director of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna and five time Austrian Champion. After moving to the USA, she continued her education with former SRS chief-rider, the late Karl Mikolka and Shannon Peters.
Angela believes that a fit horse is a happy horse and continually strives to ensure her horses receive the care they need in order to maintain their health, fitness and contentment.
Experience
Angela has 25+ years experience of successfully training horses and riders in classical dressage
“I believe in an emphasis on horse and rider partnership. The horse must be happy, pain free and trusting of his rider to be able to perform successfully at his full potential..”
–Angela Paltram
Western Dressage Thoughts and Goals:
The interest in Western Dressage was sparked by the realization that show dressage, to a high degree, has lost it’s common ground with the classical approach of training a horse.With adding Western Dressage to AP Dressage’s curriculum we are looking forward to offering our clients the ability to show and train in an environment which promotes the partnership between horse and rider and focuses on training the horse to it’s highest abilities without force.