MD Reiners
Where Dreams Begin
Mix Amercan Ambition with Gallic pluck and what do you get? An unique sucess like Maryse Dupaul.
A French Canadian, she grew up doing chores on her father's dairy in St. Pie, about 20 miles from Montreal. When she was three, she began asking for a horse. By eight, she "just knew" they would be her career. At 13, she had a part-time job cleaning stalls and saddling horses at a nearby stable. Two years later, Maryse became the youngest person ever certified as a Canadian equestrian instructor. (The minimum age now is 18.)
During high school, having learned essentials of reining with a trainer in Quebec, she began giving lessons and training some horses on her own. After a year of agicultural college, she knew she would have to come to the United States to expand her knowledge.
In 1992, with only her clothes, her saddle and $300, Maryse took a bus to New Jersey. She saw a man with a cowboy hat and addressed him in the few words of English she knew: "Me...ride...job...good." He turned out to be from Cleburne, Texas, and she wound up working at his Quarter Horse breeding farm.
Over the next six years, she gained experience and polished her English at training barns in North Carolina, New Mexico, California and Oklahoma, returning to Texas to work for Joe Hayes in Gainesville, Texas and Clint Haverty in Krum, Texas. After a stint with one of Haverty's clients in Quinlan, Maryse decided it was time to go out on her own and established herself as MD Reiners in 1998.
She was ready. That first year she won the bronze in the open and limited open divisions of the Rocky Mountain Reining Horse Association Futurity, the limited open and reserve in the intermediate class at the Southwest Reining Horse Association show, and the NRHA Central Affiliate Finals limited open championship, completing the year in the top 10. In 1999 she was a finalist at the NRHA Derby and then won the SWRHA Snaffle Bit Open. Last year she was ranked fourth in the NRHA intermediate open standings.
After leasing a facility in Greenville, Maryse bought her own place two years ago just down Highway 34 in Cash. Here she has 25 stalls, an 80'200' covered arena, round pens and walker, and a 350' x 200' sliding track. Facilities for working cow horse training are being completed.
She is assisted by D. Maddux, who runs the ranch. They work six days a week and Maryse is up at 5:30am and rides as many as 10 horses during her long day, which doesn't end until 8 or 9 at night. The 25 stalls are full. Three-quarters of those currently in training are for reining competition. The others are roping and barrel racing horses, checked in for 120 days of reining tune-ups to improve their handle.
Article from: April 2002
Lone Star Horse Report
Fort Worth, Texas.
by Dan Talbot
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