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Mackenzie Gwin Equestrian

What she offers

Training & programs.

Lessons, full training, and horse shopping in Lexington, Kentucky. Built around the horse and rider in front of her.

Horse sales

Sport horses for sale. Each listing covers disposition, level, and what the horse needs from a rider — in plain language.

  • Trial rides and video
  • Transportation coordination
  • Honest representation

Shopping consultation

If the right horse isn’t on the list, Mackenzie sources it. She does the legwork — needs assessment, scouting, evaluations, and negotiation on your behalf.

  • Goal setting
  • Sourcing & screening
  • Trial coordination

Training & coaching

Lessons, full training, and show coaching. Programs are built around the horse and rider in front of her, not a one-size template.

  • Full training
  • Show coaching
Mackenzie trotting Biggie at the Iroquois Hunt Club Day in the Country Horse Show, September 2025

Biggie (Big Warden) at Iroquois Hunt Club Day in the Country, September 2025.

Disciplines

What she rides & coaches.

Chance mid-jump over a log and hay bales obstacle, alternate angle

Hunters

Hunter rounds at home, schooling shows, and rated competition. Mackenzie rides every horse she shows and every horse she sells, and her clients ride the way she does.

  • Schooling at home
  • Rated and unrated
  • Trip planning
Mackenzie jumping Dax, her bay sport horse, over a butterfly oxer in a stone-wall arena

Jumpers

From green horses figuring out a track to amateurs working on their adjustability. Most of Mackenzie's program comes through the jumpers at some point.

  • Green horse mileage
  • Adjustability
  • Schooling away
Dax practicing a cavaletti gymnastic, photographed in profile

Equitation Coaching

Junior and amateur equitation coaching — flatwork, position, and ring craft.

  • Junior & amateur riders
  • Flatwork
  • Test schooling
Mackenzie riding Pitching Fast, a chestnut OTTB, in a dressage test at the Retired Racehorse Project Makeover, 2023

Dressage

Dressage as the foundation under everything else — and as its own competition. Useful for hunters and jumpers who need straightness, and for sport horses being brought up the levels.

  • Foundation work
  • Test prep
  • Cross-training
Mackenzie riding Bonfire, a grey horse, through a creek in formal foxhunt attire

Foxhunting

Mackenzie earned her Colors at the Fort Leavenworth Hunt. Coops, coverts, and a horse that stays settled in a field of fifty.

  • Hunt-fit horses
  • Field manners
  • Coops & panels
Mackenzie riding Hawksbridge, a bay sport horse, clearing a sponsored cross-country oxer

Eventing

Restarted off-the-track Thoroughbreds and amateurs moving up. Cross-country schooling at the area's recognized venues.

  • XC schooling
  • Restarted OTTBs
  • Move-up support

On the calendar

Where to find her next.

See the full schedule

Talk through a program.

Tell Mackenzie about your horse, your level, and your goals.

Inquire about trainingOr see horses for sale