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Tricia Aldridge - Murphy
Manager/Trainer/Instructor
 | By the age of five she could ride a horse by herself, and she received her first pony when she was | |
| six at the end of her kindergarten year. |
| Living on a farm in Tennessee for seven years, she had unlimited riding time |
| She attended over 100 horse shows including the Tennessee State Show and she has won multiple | |
| awards and ribbons. |
| By age 12 she already had over 3,000 hours of riding experience, was on her fourth horse and had | |
| already had experience riding dozens more! |
| Moved to the DFW in March, 2000. By age 13 she was hired to train someone’s horse that had | |
| seriously injured its rider. After that success many more horse owners started hiring her, and she started working at a separate barn that hired her to train and fix dozens of problem horses. |
| Tricia has attended and ridden in many clinics including 4-H, reining, Monty Roberts, Martha | |
| Josey, Lynn McKenzie and Ed Wright. |
| She has assisted Dr. Britt Clark, DVM all day in surgery at a large equine veterinarian facility | |
| near Gatesville, Texas and she spent a week with a large breeder in Tennessee when she went back to visit during spring break. |
| She has ridden English, Western, and Saddle Seat, but her focus is on play days and barrel racing. |
| She is an advanced bareback rider, and frequently demonstrates to her students various riding | |
| skills and techniques. |
| Tricia worked part time at Sergeants Western Wear in the tack department for six months and | |
| then worked for nine months at Lone Star Park Tack Store. She was hired as an assistant to one of the trainer's at the track and worked there for nine months. This gave her the opportunity to interview customers and trainers to learn what equipment, tack and supplements worked and which ones did not work. Tricia has personally tried just about every product on the market when it comes to horses. These experiences enable Tricia to save her clients a fortune by steering them away from products that are not worth while. |
| Tricia has trained personally one on one with many equine professionals including Barrel Racing | |
| Trainer Zach Thompson, Reining Training with the late Gerald "Jerry" Ellis of Ellis Performance Horses, Cutting Trainer Bill Phelps, and Dressage Trainer Jim Eldridge of Noble Champion Sport Horses. |
| More information below. | |
| February 23, 2006 - Tricia attended the 2006 Equine Workshops at Texas A & M University, put on by the Texas Cooperative Extension and instructed by Dr. Brett Scott and Dr. Pete Gibbs with a Training Demonstration by AQHA Judge Sharon Wellman. She attended the Mare/Foal Management Workshop and the Performance Horse Owners Workshop. Tricia looks forward to sharing the things that she learned with her T-R Star Ranch Students! |
| May 27, 2006 - Tricia was hired by the Make A Wish Foundation! She was able to help a 13 year old girl realize her dream of having a horse of her own. Tricia helped Make a Wish purchase the supplies the horse needed. As well as give the donated horse some refresher training. She also gave this girl a series of riding lessons. |
| July 16, 2006 - Tricia attended a two day Lynn McKenzie barrel racing clinic held at the Rendon Indoor Arena in Rendon, TX on July 15 and 16, 2006. She took Hemi with her to work with and they accomplished a lot! We were excited that Tricia won the first place award in the novice division and Kay Kooyman won second place on Digitys Happy Flame a horse that we raised and trained. Congratulations Kay and Tricia!!! |
| January through May 2008 - Tricia and Dodge are in training with a National Barrel Horse Trainer getting ready for the Old Fort Days Futurity in May, 2008 in Fort Smith, AR. This is a show with $350,000 in prize money, first place wins $60,000! Each horse has to be no older then four years old this year and they can't have been shown before Dec. 1, 2007. This will be Tricia's first National show, Good Luck Tricia and Dodge! |
| Oct 25, 2008- Tricia was hired by the Make A Wish Foundation! For a second time, She was able to help a 10 year old girl realize her dream of having a well behaved horse. Tricia helped Make a Wish give the horse some refresher training,also she will be giving this girl a series of riding lessons. |
| July 2008 - Tricia is continuing to show Dodge and Sparx in barrels and is currently interested in seeking sponsorships. Tricia is qualified to go to several world shows over the next year and she currently has two more horses she is training to run in the Old Fort Days Futurity and Derby as well as the Future Fortunes Futurity. Tricia has also started taking lessons with a Professional Reining trainer to enhance her barrel racing skills as well as to pass along this knowledge to her students and to utilize this awesome method of training with her clients own horses that she is training. |
| September 2009 - Tricia has started to show in 3-Day Eventing with Smoke. After only two months of training this five year old thoroughbred gelding off the track, Tricia and Smoke received 8th place in the Advanced Beginner Novice Class at the Greenwood Farms 2009 Fall Horse Trials in Weatherford, TX. 3-Day Eventing includes Dressage, Stadium Jumping and Cross Country Jumping. Tricia felt it was important to learn this advanced level sport to enhance her own training and instructing abilities to pass along to her students and horses. She feels this will greatly improve any other riding sport that her and her students want to accomplish! |
| May 2010 - Tricia attended a one day clinic with World Champion Trainer Ed Wright. Tricia took her new horse Hemi (Money Perks Me Up). Tricia continues to further her education whenever she gets the chance so she can pass on her knowledge to her students and horses that she trains. |