Employee Biographies

Autumn Rae

Autumn rode her first horse before she was a year old in a front-pack that her mother wore, and hasn’t stopped riding since.   When she was six years old, Autumn began taking riding lessons with natural horsemanship guru Durlene Meck.  As she progressed in skill levels, she was given the challenge of training an “unmanageable” pony that Durlene had bought from a slaughterhouse. If she could tame it, the horse would become hers. This is when Autumn fell in love with training horses and found that communicating with them came naturally to her.

Autumn has continued her equine education and in 2003 became the founder and president of Scattered Acres Sport Horses, LLC.   She has international riding experience and continues to train, compete and coach avidly throughout the year.

Autumn has trained with many excellent coaches and riders including Kim Severson, Craig Thompson, Wendy Shaffer, Eric Horgan, Phyllis Dawson, Sharon White, Allison Springer, Bob Orton, Jimmy Wofford, and Linda Zang.  She is currently training with Jan Byyny (XC & stadium), and Britta Johnston (dressage).

Autumn also holds a dual degree in Experiential Education and Conservation Biology from George Mason University. She has a rich background leading outdoor education trips and coaching people to push themselves towards reaching their goals, empowerment, service, and working as a team.  She has facilitated the personal growth of many students through adventure activities such as backpacking, rock-climbing, kayaking, and wilderness survival all over the U.S. and abroad.  Since she started Scattered Acres Sport Horses, she has been applying her training in experiential education to riding instruction and coaching.

Autumn has trained hundreds of horses from in-hand work and saddle breaking through FEI levels in eventing and dressage. Likewise, she has coached hundreds of students from beginning riders through Preliminary eventing and Intermediate I in dressage.

Autumn is highly educated, skilled, focused on, and excited about helping students to reach their personal goals and about training horses to become athletes and willing partners.  Her experience and education includes, but is not limited to:

• Founder and President of Scattered Acres Sport Horses LLC.
• Vice President and co-founder of HorsePower Equine Assisted Learning foundation
• Apprenticeship in Germany with Falk Shubert studying dressage
• Multiple USEA Year End High-Point Awards for her students, her horses and herself
• Successful competition through FEI levels on self-trained horses
• International equine import experience

Autumn is an active, competing member of the USEA, USEF and USDF.Jimm