Jill Walter Robinson

Heart and soul--that can only mean owner/instructor Jill Walter-Robinson, a woman who has been teaching riding and managing stables (and only that!) since 1972. In the Peace Corps in West Africa in 1969, Jill discovered a horse that had walked out of the jungle behind her hut. The tribal chief who lost the horse allowed Jill to care-for and ride him. When she returned to her home in New York, Jill took the hint and enrolled in an instructor certification course taught by Frank Chapeu. Soon after, Jill was Olympic rider Debbie Dolan's early instructor, and has taught and managed at Sweet Briar College, VA, The Farmington Polo Club, CT where she taught hunter rider Shashine Bell, and The Maryland Horse Center, where she directed a state-certified equestrian career course. Jill is a one-woman phenomenon, also eventing her thoroughbred J.C. Chips at Preliminary Level.