Academia de Phoenix Internationale : Team : Classical Dressage • Horse Training • Horse Jumping • Horse Riding Lessons & Clinics • Horses For Sale • Sports Psychology • Equine Psychology : Angus MacGreigor : Bow & Bellingham, Washington

Amelia Tritz, Angus MacGreigor, Bo Bishop - Team Phoenix Internationalé

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Angus MacGreigor, Chief Trainer of the Academia de Phoenix Internationalé, is a lifelong student of equine sciences. Angus started riding and taking lessons at a early age, taking advantage of any equine opportunity presented. Angus studied many disciplines in his younger equine career including dressage, hunters and jumpers which led him to compete in the ASPCA Medal Maclay. He drove fine coach horses and heavy teams, rode cutting horses and re-schooled polo ponies. He competed in NCAA calf roping and team roping; he also worked at and helped to run a major university equine center. He won numerous awards at the local and national levels. While studying avionics and electronics in college, Angus minored in equine sciences. He studied university level equine physiology, kinesiology, nutrition and psychology. He also studied commercial equine management and the thoroughbred race industry. He pursued a high tech career which took him to Europe and eventually to Silicon Valley where he rose to the level of senior director of strategic technical marketing.

In the late 1980s and early 90s, Angus competed in national level show jumping. In 1996 while working in Europe, Angus decided to focus his attention on dressage. He began training under classical dressage masters in Europe, specifically in Holland, Sweden and in Germany. He has trained, schooled and successfully shown young horses through Prix St. George and has successfully competed internationally at all levels of dressage. Through this time Angus continued to ride hunters and jumpers, though not his primary focus. He is currently splitting his time between the USA and Ireland riding and showing jumpers at the highest levels.

In 2005-6, Angus competed internationally as a masters’ level biathlete. While training for biathlon, Angus was able to work at Olympic training sites with human sports nutritionists, physiologists and psychologists. Angus brings this strong background in human sports sciences to his life-long experience in equine sciences. He teaches students the secrets of how to train their horses and themselves to work and think like world class athletes.

Angus has the vision to see the possibilities in a raw product (i.e., horse and rider) and the skills to teach and motivate horse and rider to reach their highest potential.

Angus MacGriegor

Bo Bishop, director of Phoenix Dressage Horse Psychology division, has been involved with horses in different training and competitive and non-competitive venues most of her life. She has studied with master-level teachers in the equine world as well as masters of human psychology. Bo works with horses to tap into their mental and emotional learning centers from which she builds the foundation and skill set that supports any training discipline. This style of training creates horses that understand what their riders are asking, rather than horses that react in fear and flight. This allows horse and rider to reach their true potential.

Amelia Tritz, a horse lover since childhood. Growing up, she took advantage of every opportunity, riding many horses. She became involved with the Pony Club at age 18. She brought home silver and bronze medals from Championships West for horse management in show jumping in Ogden Utah. She qualified for the National championships in the “Know Down”, a test on all horse knowledge. In Crestone, Colorado she learned stable management, the economics and logistics of running a boarding stable. As an endurance racer, she utilized her horse management skills to keep her horses fit over the 50 and 100 mile distances. During that time she worked with a corrective shoer who taught her how to do a natural trim and how to set shoes. She studied with Jonathan Field learning natural horsemanship in Abbotsford, BC.

At a Hanoverian breeding facility in Germany, she rode many young horses, one being a filly who later became Eva Bittner’s Grand Prix show jumper. With Eva, Amelia traveled to the Hamburg Derby and the Tournament of Nations in Rome, Italy where she groomed and assisted in the warm up arena. Amelia tried her hand at breeding and came out with a National Grand Champion from the Friesian Blood Horse Registry. The filly is 3 and still at home with her mother Jewel.

In Germany, Amelia fox hunted with the local club. Drag hunting in Washington, Amelia met Angus MacGreigor and became a working student, schooling all levels of Dressage Horses and Jumpers. Lessons in dressage and jumping as well as fox hunting on the weekends paid off as she soon became a Whipper-in. Currently, Amelia is working with Bo Bishop to expand her natural horsemanship skills. Amelia is in charge of teaching high performance equine feeding, hydration, pre-event and post-event care to keep horses at optimal performance. She also teaches grooming and proper German leather care. Amelia schools, young horses, and does pre-show warm up and post show cool down. Her expertise in equine psychology, bio-mechanics combined with her European High Performance sport horse experience make her an invaluable asset to Phoenix Internationalé.