



Shirley Klassen's specialties include training, conditioning and showing halter
horses up to and including Canadian National and U.S. National Top Ten wins.
She has trained and shown successfully in English and western pleasure, pleasure
driving, hunter, show hack, jumper, reining and trail with Arabians, quarter horses,
American saddlebreds, Canadiens and several other breeds.
Robert Painchaud's specialties include barrel racing and pole bending for which he
has won many championships and training horses of many breeds for saddle and
harness, sleigh and trail riding. Robert has also had considerable experience in the
ring with halter and pleasure horses in the Arabian division.
Shirley Klassen has been an accredited Judge with Equine Canada since 1982 and
holds Senior National status in the Arabian Division and National status in the
General Performance (all breeds) division. She also does consulting work for horse
evaluations for legal, estate and insurance purposes and gives instructional training
and judging clinics. For further information please see the link Consulting
services..
Our training and showing services encompass most everything that is done with a
horse from teaching a baby to lead to showing your seasoned campaigner. We
stand outside stallions at stud and we will evaluate your horse and teach you to
show your own horse if that is your goal. No training job is too big or too small and
every horse is a priority to us. We also offer the services of purchasing or selling
horses for our clientele.
For further information regarding our training or showing services, fees etc. please
contact us directly through e-mail or phone so that we may create a plan that is
tailored to your requirements and that or your horse. We require no minimum
length of training and we accept horses and riders for short term consultations to
remedy problems. Please feel free to browse our section entitled "Our clients say"
for the thoughts and experiences of our past and present clients.





















Shirley Klassen has owned, bred and trained Arabian horses since
1973. A full time, professional horse trainer, Shirley operates
Ferme Klassique located in St. Joseph-du-Lac, Quebec (near
Montreal), an indoor horse training facility with a capacity for 30
horses. As a trainer, Shirley Klassen has won U.S. and Canadian
National honours in divisions as diverse as halter to show jumping.
Although all breeds of horses are accepted for training at Ferme
Klassique, Arabian horses are the specialty being encouraged to
compete in everything from dressage to barrel racing.
The Arabian Horse Association listed Shirley Klassen on
their list of Recommended Arabian Judges in l987 where she held
the highest possible rating since 1999. Before recently retiring from
judging, Shirley held Senior National Arabian Judges status with
The Canadian Equestrian Federation (now Equine Canada) since
l982 and General Performance Division status since l992.
Shirley gives instructional training and Judging clinics and
performs appraisals and evaluations on horses for legal, insurance
and estate purposes.
Shirley Klassen is a past Vice President of The Canadian Arabian
Horse Registry and Region l8 of International Arabian Horse
Association. She has served on the Board of Directors of The
Arabian Horse Association of Eastern Canada and is past Vice
President of The Quebec Arabian Horse Association.
As a breeder of Arabian horses, Shirley Klassen has bred U.S. and
Canadian National Top Ten winners in the halter division and was
the breeder and trainer of Canada's first National Show Horse Top
Ten winner. Shirley has owned many Arabian horses, two of whom
are stallions who have produced U.S. National Champions.
In l989, Shirley Klassen was voted Horse Person of the Year by the
membership of The Arabian Horse Association of Eastern Canada.

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