Penwick is a team of professionals committed to training eventing & dressage horses and riders, it is managed by Chelsea Palmer. To learn more about eventing, please click here. To learn more about the professionals running Penwick, please see below.

Chelsea Palmer started riding at age three, when her mother passed along her love of horses to Chelsea. Chelsea rode in weekly lessons for many years until she was old enough to begin working at the barn, where she started to do turnout for 70+ horses every Saturday morning. Chelsea.s first horse was a young fiery red headed mare off the track that nobody would ride, under the guidance of Sally Hinkle-Russell a Grand Prix jumper rider in Connecticut, the horse and Chelsea became successful in eventing and jumpers. From this little mare, Chelsea fell in love with off the track thoroughbreds (OTTB) and her talent for green and .crazy. horses was found (and continues to this day!). Chelsea was an active member of the US Pony Club, attending the show jumping championships in Kentucky. It was through Pony Club that Chelsea found her love for eventing. Chelsea spent a summer in the mountains of Vermont at Vershire Riding School, training twice a day and riding in some of the top Area I events. During and after college, Chelsea worked for a number of years on Wall Street, in the Mergers and Acquisitions industry and the Currency Trading Market. She was very successful but decided to follow her dream of becoming a professional rider and trainer.Throughout her riding career Chelsea has been able to ride and work with many talented dressage, jumper and eventing teachers, including Sally Hinkle, Michael Page, Marilyn Payne, Susie Gornall and Cathy Morelli.

Sally gave Chelsea her first job teaching riding lessons at her farm, Mystic Valley Hunt Club, to children and adults. Being apart of a large lesson program gave Chelsea the opportunity to instruct all different types of people and learn to teach with different styles. Under Sally Hinkle and other mentor's guidance Chelsea.s passion for the training and riding of the "ultimate" athlete was solidified and she has spent to date her riding time and horse education focused on training and caring for the competitive event horse.

Currently Chelsea is competing her Thoroughbred gelding, Roc King at the Training and Preliminary levels and is bringing along with the help of Steuart Pittman, White Witchcraft an imported Irish Sport Horse Mare. We expect a lot of great things from this talented mare! She is also lightly riding and trail riding her future eventing star Regal Affaire, a Cleveland Bay/Thoroughbred stallion. He was evaluated by Steuart this Spring and given two thumbs up as a future top event prospect. He will be attending a few Cleveland Bay classes this summer in Upperville and Virginia and the Future Event Horse Classes in Areas I & II.

Frank Wilson, Warwick, NY, Penwick's Farrier

Sarah Gold, D.V.M. of B.W. Furlong & Associates

Sarah's cut to the chase attitude and honesty makes her our Veterinarian of choice.

Born in Nuremburg, Germany, Dr. Sarah Gold grew up in Suffern, NY (Rockland County). Her involvement with horses began at age 9, when she began riding with Mindy Minetto at Stonehedge Farm. By grooming, training, and showing horses for Mindy in the hunter/jumper industry, she developed a strong background in horsemanship, and decided pursue a career in equine medicine. Sarah graduated cum laude from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University in 2000 with a degree in Animal Science. She also was captain of the Women's Varsity Equestrian Team at Cornell. Dr. Gold was then accepted directly into veterinary school at Cornell University, where her primary interests were sports medicine, reproduction, and pathology. She completed a one-year internship at the Alamo Pintado Equine Medical Center in the Santa Ynez Valley in California. She joined B.W. Furlong & Associates in the summer of 2005 upon completion of her internship as an ambulatory practitioner, with a special interest in lameness, reproduction, and diagnostic imaging.