Hard Hats And Thinking Caps
Chronicle of the Horse
May 21, 2010
By Anne Lang
AT THE BEGINNING of each December, Reed Kessler of Armonk, N.Y., says goodbye to her classmates and teachers and heads to Florida to show for four months. When she returns in early April, Kessler said she’s far enough ahead in her studies that she can “pretty much coast for a month or so.”
That’s because the tenth-grader enrolls in a guided study program operated by Private Tutoring Services, which offers classroom settings and one-on-one instruction at several winter show circuits, including HITS Ocala (Fla.), Gulfport Winter Series (Miss.) and Jacksonville Winter Series (Fla.). But the company’s primary equestrian branch is located at the FTI Winter Equestrian Festival in Wellington, Fla., where Kessler shows.
