D’Agostino, Casey
Casey attends the University of Connecticut and will be graduating in 2014 with a Bachelor’s degree in Biology. She plans to continue her education for a career in the veterinary field. Casey joined us in early 2008 as a volunteer and has worked her way up to an instructor. She teaches all ages of students and levels of riding. When not teaching, Casey can be found in the barn spending time with her favorite mare Minnie.

Peterson, Katie
Katie has recently graduated from Manhattanville College in 2009 with her Bachelor's in English and Secondary Education. She is continuing at Manhattanville in getting her Masters of Writing. Katie is a certified educator in both Connecticut and New York with plans to become a full time educator. She still finds time to instruct riding lessons and visit her horse "Cadet" every day. Katie teaches all levels and ages of students including students with disabilities. She has been an instructor since 2003 and has been a part of Mead Farm since 1998.

Peterson, Susan
Better known as Mrs. P or the Mom of the Barn, Sue has been an instructor at Mead Farm since 2004. She is a graduate of Greenwich Hospital School of Nursing and is a licensed nurse in the State of Connecticut. Mrs. P has worked at Yale New Haven Hospital in the Medical Coronary Unit, Medical ICU, Resuscitation Team and since 1988 has been a choreographer for Central Middle School in Greenwich. A mother of four and grandmother of five, she enjoys all children. Mrs. P has experience in working with children with different abilities from very young to the novice adult.

Prout, Bill
In his early teens he trained under Victor Hugo Vidal and did select “A” circuit shows in hunter and equitation classes then shifted his concentration to eventing. At sixteen, he trained under the tutelage of noted dressage coach Migi Sherrell to expand his eventing skills while attending several USET evaluations in Gladstone , NJ conducted by Bert de Nemethy as part of their three-day development program. He competed internationally at the Canadian Olympic Center in August 1963 with Chef d’ Equipe Frank Capot as a member of the USET development program. He has recently been awarded his Advanced NARHA therapeutic riding instructor certification. He has worked as a trainer/instructor in western and eastern Pennsylvania and at selected barns in eastern Connecticut and Westchester County , New York . He believes in continuing his own instruction, attending the British Grand Prix/Olympic Jumper clinic with Tim Stockdale in 2000, and in Fall 2010, he attended the USHJA trainer symposium with George Morris in Buffalo , and was recently awarded his USEF Trainer Certification. He ended his international eventing career after suffering an accident while competing at the Armathwaite Horse Trials in England in 2000.

Stoupas, Kate
Kate Stoupas was born in England and rode in the local Pony Club as a child. She moved to Australia at eleven and continued to ride throughout her teenage years. Kate studied as a photographer working in film and television with such stars as Nicole Kidman. She also worked as a ski instructor which has transitioned well into riding instructor. Moving to the USA in 2000, Kate returned to riding with gusto. She is on the Board of the GRTA, owns her own horse "Willow" and teaches adults and teenagers at Mead Farm. "I love this job" she says "working with women and taking them from beginner to jumping fences is a great reward". Kate competes in local shows and Hunter Paces and can be found at the barn most days. She has also just published a book entitled "Women & Horses - Passion or Obsession".

Todd, Teresa
She started riding almost as soon as she could walk thanks to her father who was a Jockey in Ireland . Teresa followed in her father’s footsteps being a point to point jockey while managing
a friend’s barn working with the mares and foals in Hertfordshire, England. She is a graduate of the British Horse Society and has been helping out at Mead Farm since arriving to the USA in 2001.