Based near Moelfre on the beautiful Isle of Anglesey (North-West Wales), Sara Jones-Williams has a lifetime of experience with horses. She has lived on Anglesey almost all of her life, and began riding at the age of three. Throughout childhood, from 3-14 years of age, Sara showed ponies, working her way through the different Welsh Pony sections and then onto Welsh Part Breds! At 14, however, she met Eileen and Debbie Clarke and their Morgans, which changed Sara's life forever. Over the following years, Sara's interest turned from Showing to eventing and dressage, and she rode the first British Morgan to compete in affiliated Eventing (Cloister Choirboy). 

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After finishing her "A" levels, Sara worked in a stunt yard for 9 months before returning to Anglesey and working in a riding school teaching children to ride, alongside working in a Point to Point yard and avidly hunting. In parallel to this, she was volunteering with the Riding for Disabled (RDA) and became the youngest-ever qualified RDA coach age 21 - a record that still stands.

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Though Sara's working life moved away from horses as her second career in Local Government Finance developed, she remained an active exhibitor in Morgan breed events, competing the beautiful Lanside Minuet (Lucy) and collecting the accolades of European Champion Morgan Horse (both in-hand and ridden) and European Champion Morgan Rider. Sadly, Lucy's competition career was curtailed by injury but she went on to become the dam of our current stallion Cloister Coradog (Max).

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Over the years, Sara has coached numerous riders to Pony Club B+ test success, successfully trained a member of the British Saddleseat team and coached para riders to national RDA Championship level, most recently a totally visually impaired rider who was both placed nationally at the RDA Championships but also competed successfully in able-bodied dressage in North Wales.  With her extensive experience teaching neurodiverse (e.g. ASD) riders via RDA - she is a National RDA coach - Sara can switch her teaching style effortlessly to accommodate riders with different learning styles, both able-bodied and those with disabilities. Sara is committed to ongoing professional development as a coach, trainer and rider - she recently added RDA showjumping coach to her existing national RDA coaching credentials. 

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Sara is passionate about promoting access to equestrian activities, including competition, for all. In a voluntary capacity she is the joint North Wales RDA Dressage coordinator (working closely with  BD Para Dressage Wales) and a member of the RDA's National Dressage Committee. 

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