Meet the Trainers
Wild Deuce has two very skilled, professional trainers with a wide background of riding and training experience: Brenda Murdock and Terri McKinney. Brenda and Terri have been riding horses since before they could walk. Having grown up less than a mile from each other, they have spent a lot of time riding with each other from an early age.
More about Brenda:
- Has been training horses since 10 years of age
- 16 years of experience instructing basic to intermediate riding
- Competed in Medium Level Dressage
- Competed in Preliminary Level Eventing
- 10 years in Pony Club to C1 Level.
- 7 years competing in Three Day Eventing throughout Alberta
- 10 years experience back country packing and winter survival
- Completed Courses in Wilderness Survival, Winter Camping and Survival
- Current First Aid and CPR
- Completed Hunter Training Course
- Current Firearms Certificate
Brenda grew up with horses. She has shown, competed, taught and worked for numerous equine facilities throughout Alberta.
More about Terri:
- Riding and Training since 10. Training outside horses started at 16
- Teaching and instructing for 16 years - basics to intermediate riding
- Competed Training Level Dressage and Eventing
- 10 years in Pony Club to C Level
- 7 years competing in Three Day Eventing throughout Alberta
- Managed an English barn in Oxford, England
- 10 years experience in 4-H
- Show Judge experience
- 20 years mountain riding experience
- Guiding for a year in Jasper
- Head pen checker in Picture Butte
- Looked after 700 yearling cattle
- 10 experience back country packing and winter survival
- Current First Aid and CPR
- Completed Hunter Training Course
- Current Firearms Certificate
Terri grew up on a cattle farm, also with horses. She has shown, judged, taught and worked for numerous trainers and barns through out Alberta and England. Terri rides Western and English and has worked cattle on horseback on her family's cattle farm.
Brenda and Terri ride extensively in the mountains, often packing out for days with the un-broke colts they are training. They typically ride one horse and lead 8 to 10 other horses behind them.
"The mountains have been our best teacher for survival and the horses have been our best teacher for the importance of the equine-human relationship. We have seen a lot of things go right and wrong on the trail, and learned from that. We pride ourselves on our training abilities - we take training to a level most people don’t experience, because we ride to remote places where you have to depend on the partership with your horse for your survival."
Terri and Brenda are constantly expanding their training skills and their program, by including the horses in events they are involved in. For example: ranch roping, pasture roping, penning, sorting, reining and barrel racing.
