Meet the Pleasant Valley Horse Club trainers and camp leaders, including owner Michelle LeClair. Read about their experience, and what they love about working at Pleasant Valley Horse Club.

Trainers

• Michelle
• Lucas
• Carey

Meet Michelle LeClair

Michelle LeClair, Pleasant Valley Horse Club Owner and Instructor, has been riding horses for 35 years. Her riding career began when she was five years old. At eight Michelle participated in 4H. Later, as a teenager she became interested and competed in Western Trail, English Hunter Jumper, and Equitation. By nineteen Michelle had progressed to a pick for the U.S. team in the 1984 Olympics. Add to that barrel racing in rodeos, working on a cattle ranch, sorting, and team penning. Just before opening Pleasant Valley Horse Club, Michelle became a school teacher. Now Michelle brings her passions and talent together into one business containing two primary ingredients: a love of horses and horsemanship, and a love for children and their learning process.

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Meet Lucas

At 17 Lucas had already won the AA California State Championships for Barrel Racing in 2005. He also won the All Around Boys Western Series in Carmel, and has many ribbons from Western Pleasure, Trail Junior Cattle Sorting. He has shown well in jumpers. Lucas has been riding from the time he was "around four" and was raised with horses his whole long life. He has trained horses from the ground up. Lucas says he loves to jump his horse Patch, barrel race with Oscar, and work cows.

Lucas lives on the ranch with Michelle, his mom, and is both an instructor and a primary member of the Leadership Team.

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Meet Carey

Carey has been riding horses since she was 10.  She started lessons in the Sacramento Area, and after attending Rutgers University she continued riding in New Jersey.  Her focus has been mainly Hunter/Jumpers and Equitation, but since coming to PVHC in the fall of 2009, she has picked up an interest in Western Pleasure and Trail.  She enjoys being outside and working with kids.  She brings her experience as a part of the English instruction team.