Lisa Reid - anyone know her? 'Reviews' please

[Trailrider70]

Saw her website, she sounds awesome. Anyone worked with her? Ride with her? Know her? How is she as an agent for purchasing or as an instructor?

If you aren't comfortable giving a 'review' on the board please feel free to PM me. Just want to make an informed decision before diving in with a new pro.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!:D

[Ishi]

If we have a sale horse that matches what she is looking for in a client, we'll tell her about the horse, she'll come out and see it go, often more then once. As a seller, she's made it easy to sell (We just get the horse ready and show it, no emails, no tire kickers, no inapropriate buyers) and she has made some AWESOME matches! One COTHer (maybe she'll post on this thread) bought a horse from us last Fall and they are kicking butt right now. Another horse we sold through Lisa has won almost every event he's been in, but he needed the right person for him, so we were thrilled with the match. We are small scale sales and just want the horses we sell to go to the best possible new homes, and Lisa helps us with that. Her students seem to do very well at events too.

You an PM me if you have any specific questions, I may not know the answers, but I'm more then happy to help if I can. I do know a few COTHers take lessons from her, so hopefully they can be more help.

[eventrider]

Lisa is one of the most professional, honest, straight forward people I know. I have purchased my current prelim mare through her, as well as 2 horses for myself sight unseen on her recommendation. I have purchased horses for clients as well as sold my own horses through her. Lisa schooled me over fences when I was running Teddy intermediate and advanced, and I credit her a lot for his jumping ability. What you saw of Teddy with Karen was instilled in part by Lisa before Karen took over the ride. I have nothing but respect and admiration, which is rare in this horse world. I would recommend her for anyone as a teacher, as sales agent, or a seller. I actually just got back from Middleburg this afternoon picking up another horse I bought from her sight unseen.

Christan

[53]

I trust her 100% and I've never met her in person. She bent over backwards for me and I have nothing but good things to say about her.

[AKB]

Years ago, she matched quite a few pony clubbers with athletic, talented, green horses who were way too much horse for them. Most of those kids gave up riding after too many scary experiences. Lisa can pick lovely, talented horses, and hopefully has now gotten better at matching the horses up with the right riders who will enjoy them.

[piaffeprincess98]

I am the person Ishi is talking about I think. I have worked with Lisa for a few years now. My little "testimonial" is on her website. She does have a good eye for horses and seems to know everyone. Each week I see her, she is telling me how she has found a horse for this person, this ULR or whoever. At shows, most horses that come into the ring have some sort of connection with her!

I feel like she is an "old school" trainer. She rode in many a three day and still uses her experiences to train her students. But she understands how the short format is going now and has adapted to teach that way of riding too.

[LisaB]

Me me me!!!
She found Winston for me. Now talk about out of the woodwork and a great match! Who would have thought and Amish cart horse and geek would get along?
She also found a little tb for me that got my confidence back into horses. It was the only horse I sold for a profit.
The first time, with Norm, she listened to me and called my trainer. While I wanted to go prelim, I wasn't ready for it by any means. I was a defensive rider with a tiny budget. She found a horse that got me back into the swing so I could go on to prelim.
Then with Winston, we had first looked at a lovely Westphalen. I still love that horse but while passing the vet in Germany, he didn't cut it here. But while I was riding him, she saw that i had some training. The German guy was helping me out and my old dressage ways came out. She had seen me out there with the in between Norm and Winston horse and realized how bad that horse was because I could actually ride and I could actually probably do prelim like I said. She told me about Emily too. So I was taking lessons with her, trying to get this horse to do something, anything. Since the wb didn't pass the vet, she was out hunting again. She had a long conversation with Emily about me and the possibilty of getting such a freaky horse (Winston is a freak). While a nice horse, he's weird on the ground. Flighty and not huggable and such. So, Emily said I could handle it and off we went to the hinterlands of PA. And so I bought a horse that I thought looked like a Tyrannasarous Rex based on Lisa's recommendation. I absolutely trusted her expertise and her knowledge of me and my limitations/skills.

[366474]

I have been impressed by her. She does seem very professional and a nice person.

[Shaq]

What is her web address?

[Carol Ames]

I've known people to buy both good :yes:and suitable horses well as a good horse with severe hock :eek:problems;it was a shame:sadsmile: because that was a nice mare and suited the rider at bn; but, moving up ws not an n :no:option; so, you have both sides

[eventrider]

www.reidtowin.com.

[Jaegermonster]

I've known people to buy both good :yes:and suitable horses well as a good horse with severe hock :eek:problems;it was a shame:sadsmile: because that was a nice mare and suited the rider at bn; but, moving up ws not an n :no:option; so, you have both sides


thats why you do a ppe

[pwynnnorman]

I've never met Lisa in person, but I've spoken to her a few times on the phone--and I've had folks "deep in the know" recommend her on several occasions. My impression is that people who have good reason not to trust just anybody, DO trust her. To me, that says a lot about the kind of person she is.

[SophieGirl23]

I started off riding with Lisa about 18 years ago. She taught for our Pony Club for many years and then I continued riding with her after I finished with Pony Club. She breaks things down well and lessons (while tough) were always fun and rewarding. I haven't ridden with Lisa in a few years as my older mare is no longer up for eventing and we have ventured into the world of hunters these last few years. But, I see her at least once a week and periodically on an eventless weekend she'll pop out to watch me show in the hunter ring.

She has found every one of my horses for me during the time I was with her and even found me a fantastic free lease situtation when I had to put my horse down. I wanted to get to Pony Club Championships that year and she made sure I had a horse to get there with. My older mare is actually pictured on her website. She's the horse that's ranked 3rd in the VHSA Adult Hunter and 1st in Adult Equitation. What the site doesn't mention is that this horse is about to turn 22 years old. We bought her through Lisa as a 5 yo and have had her ever since. She competed through Training (schooled up through Prelim). She had a unfortunate founder a few years back and we were able to bring her back to work and she has now been competing in the hunter ring for the last few years. She also found my new horse for me, a great little OTTB that we plan to start in the Green Hunter this year.

As for the person who bought the horse with hock problem. That is what a PPE is for. Sellers can hide a lot of issues with a few quick injections or pills. It is the buyers responability to have a PPE done so that they are not taken by surprise. When Lisa and I were shopping for my OTTB we had 3 horse vetted prior to the one I bought. Sometimes the vets will find things that could be a problem down the road and just hasn't really surfaced yet.

[LisaB]

Yup, we had checked out a lovely lovely lovely Westphalen just imported. The outfit was doing importing for a living so they did all the vetting and stuff in Germany. Used good connections and all. I contemplated not ppe but with the purchase price, I just wanted my piece of mind. So I did the ppe and was glad I did. We were both surprised (and the owners were too!) that he didn't pass. In the xrays, it showed too long of pasterns and at a broken angle such that he probably wouldn't hold up to eventing. Just looking at him, it didn't appear that way but boy, when the vet put the xrays up on the light, there was no doubt. The poor owners thought they had a real gem. I'm sure the previous owners and that vet got an earful.
But no one knew and all parties were honest and upfront.