After high school, Caroline Sankey trained as a working student with Leslie O’
Neal Olsen, FEI Dressage Rider and Judge and USDF Bronze Medalist in Villa
Rica, GA.
While attending the University of Georgia, she worked and trained with Dr. Carole
Ludwig (Grand Prix Dressage rider and trainer) at the Georgia Stallion Station in
Athens, as well as with Olympian Julie Burns at Foxhall Farm.
Since 1995 she has raised and trained Hanoverian/ TB crosses in Dressage,
Jumping, and Eventing.  Caroline has competed in the US Area III Championships
in both Eventing and Dressage. Gentleman Jack (by Leslie Olsen's "Gixibar") and
Caroline competed through 3rd Level and allowed Caroline to start judging
schooling shows through 2nd Level.           


                                         





















Prior to moving to South Carolina, Caroline managed and trained at
Serenity Creek Farms in Monroe, GA.  There she was responsible for the 100+
acre boarding facility, lesson program, camps, shows, training, and facility
upkeep.   
From 2004 - 2005, she was President of the Athens Area Sporthorse Association.  
She and eventer Julie Memler promoted membership in the club, managed shows
throughout the area, and developed the year-end awards banquet and silent
auction.  
After moving to SC, Caroline began riding in flat races as an amateur jockey, in
addition to showing and training eventers and hunter/jumpers. She was 3rd at High
Hope in the International Amateur Jockey Race in May, 2008.
Caroline  teaches and trains out of Spirit Valley Farms Equestrian Center in
Chesterfield, MO, with her sister, Ida Baisch, in the summer.  Spirit Valley
specializes in hunter/jumpers, and offers dressage, event, as well as polo
instruction and training.
Toe the Line always has a unique selection of quality sales horses, including event
prospects, hunters,  jumpers, dressage and  steeplechase horses.  Horses are
accepted on consignment on a limited basis.  Toe the Line operates out of
Windsor, SC, from October - May.
About Us
Michael and Caroline with "Touring England" after winning the
Charlotte Steeplechase Sport of Kings Maiden Hurdle.
Michael in the irons on Feeling So Pretty, 2007,
Callaway Gardens
...and on Suits and Ties after winning Aiken's
Maiden Hurdle, 2007.
"Wherever man has left his footprints in the long
ascent from barbarism to civilization, we find the
hoofprint of a horse beside it."
John Trotwood Moore

Michael Traurig, son of renowned hunter/jumper trainers
Bernie Traurig and Tiffany Teeter, is now accepting horses and
clients in the Stockton, NJ area.  
20 years as a steeplechase jockey and in the hunter/jumper arena
has provided Michael with a diverse background in the equine
sport. Following high school and the tutelage of his father, Michael
trained in Germany, learning the basics of classical dressage. Then
he was on to Holland, where Michael improved his jumping skills
by working for a large hunter/ jumper sales facility.














Upon returning to the states, he trained with such luminaries as
hunter/jumper trainers Vince Dugan, Margie Goldstein, Frank
Chapot and George Morris.  In addition to his hunter/ jumper
pursuits, he was assistant trainer to Mr. Jonathan Sheppard at his
Camden steeplechase training facility.  Michael has shown
successfully on both the hunter/jumper circuit, as well as in the
eventing world, while still maintaining his steeplechase career.
Michael is now accepting students of all levels and ages
in the Stockton, NJ area.  Also accepting horses in training,
from starting young horses to the Grand Prix jumper.
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