Jami Butler has been professionally training horses for over 15 years.  Though she has been riding and showing her whole life, Jami started training professionally 15 years ago.  She has ridden and shown in various disciplines from hunter/jumper to saddleseat, western to driving, dressage to trail and more.  She was worked with a wide variety of breeds including Arabians, Quarter horses, Throughbreds, Norweigian Fjord horses, Welsh ponies & cobs, mustangs, warmbloods, Halflingers....too many to list, but well over 50 different breeds.  Though she focuses primarily on Morgan horses, Jami accepts all breeds and disciplines in to her training program.  Her horses show at all levels of competition from local open shows to "A" rated national competitions.   Jami also encourages family pleasure & trail horses in her program as well.

Jami has also had extensive experience working on the racetrack in southern California with Thoroughbred racehorses at several high profile racetracks and training facilities.  Her travels have taken her all over the country competing at horse shows as well as participating in competitive judging events.  Jami studied Agribusiness with an emphasis on the equine industry while studying at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.  Here, she also participated on their Intercollegiate Horse Show Association Team in both the western and english division.  With this team, Jami was given the opprotunity to travel around the country and compete with IHSA at the national level for several years.  In addition, she also participated on Cal Poly Pomona's WISCHA horse show team as well as their collegiate level horse judging team.  With the horse judging team she also traveled nation-wide and competed at at the Morgan Grand National & World Championships, Arabian Nationals, Quarter Horse World Championships, NACTA Nationals, and AQHA Congress.  With this team she was a 4 time World Champion individual at Morgan World, 4 time team champion at Morgan World, Champion and Reserve Champion Individual at Morgan World, as well as top 5 individual at Arabian Nationals.

Jami has also been an active member of the equine community for years.  She participated in the local 4-H and FFA program herself, and then went on to volunteer as a junior leader for the 4-H horse group and coach for several horse judging teams for both 4-H and FFA.  In 2004-2005 she helped develope the Equine group for the North County Grange Youth Fair Show Team and ended up serving as their leader and coach as well as the equestrian leader for San Diego County.  With this team, she traveled all over southern California competing at open & fair circut shows. From 2000-2005, Jami was also the head instructor for Fallbrook Silver Spurs, a non-profit youth equestrian club.  She taught english, western, over fences, trail & showmanship lessons as well as designed the horsemanship curriculum that was taught.  She was also in charge of the donation horse program, appraising, evaluating,and placing all donation horses that were accepted through this non-profit organization.  In addition, she also acted as club secretary, managed their horse show series, and traveled with students to horse shows. During this same time, Jami was also an active board member of Fallbrook Riders and served as the liason between this group and Fallbrook Silver Spurs.  Currently Jami is active with Once Upon a Horse, a non-profit organization that utilizes Morgan horses to help at-risk and developementally disabled children.  In addition, she also is an active showing member of Southern Oregon Horseman's Activities, Oregon Horseman's Assoc., AMHA (Morgan),  AMHA (Miniature), PtHA, SOPtHA, OHHA, AHA, MHAO, ODS, USDFand USEF.

Jami's training philospohy blends natural horsemanship with dressage principles (for more information, please see her "Training" page).  Another important aspect of her training experience comes from mentally and physically reconditioning abused and neglected horses.  Whether it is a horse that has been over pressured, abused or neglected, Jami's experience has given her the ability to customize a training, nutrition, and exercise program to meet each individual horse's mental and physical needs. 

Though she trained in southern California for over 10 years, Jami moved to southern Oregon in 2005, along with her family, and equine business.  For more information on our location and training schedule, please contact us.