Bristol Show Stable is a top notch full service hunter/jumper facility sitting on 10 beautiful acres. Bristol's arenas include a very spacious jumping field and a lovely lit arena. Both areas are 

surfaced with the Nike footing making them the best footing in town!! This facility focuses on the happiness of the horses. Bristol prides itself on having ample turnout for the horses to be out of their stalls as much as possible. We go by the philosophy that horses are meant to free feed on hay as they are grazers by nature. The horses are fed what they need, not what a barn manager feels the facility should pay for. Hay is fed three times a day. Pellets and supplements are fed mid day. Both barns have fly control systems for the summer. The barn is never closed. You are free to come visit or ride your horse any time you like. 

Gretchen Lof started Bristol Show Stable when she came out of the junior ranks in 1994. Bristol originated in Tucson where she grew up.  Gretchen had a very successful junior career growing up in an equestrian family with her step mother/trainer, Lynne Lof.  Growing up in that environment she had the opportunity to ride and train many many horses that most juniors wouldn't have gotten the opportunity to ride.  Essentially she has been training since her younger teens as her step mother didn't ride. Lynne did her best to have Gretchen ride and train with as many other professionals as possible growing up.  She spent summers as a working student with different trainers making it possible to pull different philosophies from a broad group of equestrian professionals.    She relocated to Phoenix in 2006 to work privately for a family in the valley.  In 2015 she bought the facility and opened the business back up to the public.  Gretchen has developed many successful junior riders taking them to national finals. She really loves to teach and feels strongly about teaching not just a frozen ineffective position but how to feel what is happening underneath you and how to move naturally with the horse.  She feels that balance of your own body and controlling the balance of the horse is key to being an effective and successful rider. 

Michal was born into a horse family and started riding with her Dad before she could walk. She rode as a kid at the Chagrin Valley Hunt Club and showed throughout the ease until the family moved to Arizona when she was 11. At that point she got a western saddle for her pony hunter and rode western and english until high school.  She then sold her horses to attend NAU. Michal met her soon to be husband there and was married after they both graduated. Quite a few years went by with no horses in sight but once the second of three children was born, she decided it was time to get back into riding. In no time at all, Michal had bought a horse and was fully immersed once again.

She rode as an adult amateur for many years before turning professional.  The fact that she has ridden and shown as both an amateur and a professional gives Michal great inset and empathy when teaching and riding. She enjoys helping people of all ages to become better at whatever level of horsemanship they aspire to. She believes horses have many things to teach us both in and out of the saddle. Riding and ground training are about communicating with the horse, and the more effective you can become in that communication, the greater your effectiveness and enjoyment becomes. This, Michal believes, can carry over and enrich all areas of life.

Desert Circuit Weeks - 1, 2 and 6

Tucson Winter Circuit weeks- TBA

West World- TBA

Blenheim- TBA

Showpark- TBA

Del Mar National- TBA

Temecula Valley Horse Show- TBA