We offer an integrated approach to horse care and training at Windswept, collaborating with some of our region’s top vets, farriers, bodyworkers, and other professionals to help you and your horse achieve your goals, whatever they may be.

Training and Management

Windswept’s management team coordinates care and training on a day to day basis, helping to create individualized programs to help each horse and rider team reach their goals.


  • Trainer & Barn Manager

    Our head trainer and co-barn manager Greta Vowell has been riding since she could walk, and has been training horses as a professional for nearly twenty years. A USDF Bronze and Silver medalist with distinction, Greta has trained numerous horses and riders from green to the FEI levels, in addition to her own lengthy list of competitive accomplishments. As a young rider, Greta attended the NAYRCs as a member of the USDF Region 5 Young Rider team in 2007. She is an alumna of the USDF Young Rider Graduate Program, and has trained with many of our sport’s great teachers, including Debbie McDonald, Conrad Schumacher, George Williams, Karl Milkolka, Kathy Connelly, Steffen Peters, Linda Zang, Lilo Fore, Jeremy Steinberg, and Jan Ebeling. She currently trains regularly with her coach and mentor, Olivia Lagoy-Weltz. With her own Guinevere CPF (UB 40 x Contango), she has been a many-time winner of Rocky Mountain Dressage Society awards and Regional Championships as they have ascended the levels, and last year was Champion at the US Dressage Finals in the Intermediare 1 Freestyle, and fourth in the Intermediare 1 class. Greta operates one of the only FEI youth programs in Colorado, having taken several students to the NAJYRCs and to regional and national youth titles, in addition to training many adult amateur clients to successes at home and in competition. This year, in addition to Guinevere, she will compete Jolie Rossing’s Rahannah at the Prix St. Georges, and Anne Schmid’s Solex and Sloane Rosenthal’s Famosa WF in the young horse classes. A lifelong Coloradan, Greta lives in Longmont with her husband Josh, Windswept’s farrier extraordinaire, and son Lane.


  • Owner

    A lifelong horsewoman but a recent convert to dressage, USDF Bronze and Silver Medalist Sloane Rosenthal and her family have owned Windswept since August 2022. Sloane brings a range of off-the-horse business experience to running Windswept, as both a start-up founder and an attorney, and is committed to building Windswept into both an elite but relaxed training facility and a center for education and growth of the sport of dressage here in Colorado. She competes her own Con Air V (pictured here at the 2022 US Dressage Finals) in the Adult Amateur divisions, and is working with Greta to develop her coming five year old mare, Famosa WF. When she is extraordinarily lucky, she gets to ride her daughter’s legendary Andalusian, Huelveño VI. Sloane lives in Boulder with her husband Dave and children Maya and Avery, who are all active parts of Team Windswept.


  • Trainer & Barn Manager

    Julie Barringer-Richers has been getting children and adults their starts in dressage in Colorado for nearly 40 years — almost as long as the rest of our management team has been alive! A legendary presence in the Colorado dressage community, Julie specializes in teaching children and adult beginners through Third Level, and loves giving riders the foundation they need in good dressage seat equitation to succeed as they go up the levels. Her training business, Wild Rose Farm, is one of the only children’s dressage programs in Colorado, and one of the only programs with lesson horses available for students who would like to explore the sport without making the leap to leasing or owning. Julie has coached countless students to USDF Bronze Medals, Regional and Rocky Mountain Dressage Society championships, and on to long and productive years at the FEI levels. An enthusiastic student of equine nutrition, Julie works with our partners at Tribute Equine Nutrition Products and our local hay suppliers to coordinate Windswept’s feeding program, as well as helping to manage day to day barn operations.

Our Core Partners

While boarders are welcome to use the providers of their choice, we are fortunate to work with a team of equine professionals and providers to help your horse feel his or her best, including many of the top practices in our region.

Dr. Wade Shoemaker
Sports Medicine & Complex Veterinary Care

Dr. Wade Shoemaker runs Countryside Large Animal Veterinary Services in Greeley, CO, and regularly visits the farm to provide lameness and sports medicine services to our equine athletes, including, where applicable, diagnostic services, joint injections, shockwave, PRP, and other advanced medical technologies. Dr. Shoemaker also provides other advanced diagnostic care to our horses both at the farm and at the clinic.

Josh Vowell
Farrier

A member of the Equine Lameness Prevention Organization, Josh Vowell provides expert hoof care to our horses. He works closely with Dr. Shoemaker on corrective shoeing, where applicable, and ensures that each horse has the podiatric tools they need to work in the most biomechanically efficient way possible.

Dr. Pam Muhonen
Equine Chiropractor

Dr. Muhonen provides equine chiropractic and acupuncture services to help keep our horses feeling and moving their best. She regularly visits the farm to provide a range of evidence-based services to support our equine athletes in reaching their potential and in managing any long-term soundness priorities.

Dr. Stacy Bluhm
Emergency & Routine Veterinary Care

Dr. Stacy Bluhm of Foothills Equine provides routine and emergency veterinary care of all types to our horses, including vaccines and deworming, wound care, illness, and other matters requiring immediate attention. Dr. Bluhm’s ambulatory practice is based close to the farm, making her a key asset to our team in emergent situations.

Lauren Harmon
Equine Bodywork

Lauren Harmon of Instill Harmony is not only a longtime client and friend of our community, she’s an expert equine bodyworker who provides supportive care to many of our horses. Whether she’s helping a competition horse get tuned up to go in the ring or a lesson horse prepare for a week of teaching younger riders, Lauren helps each horse achieve the freedom of movement they need to use their bodies safely and effectively and stay comfortable and sound in their work.

Tribute Equine Nutrition
Feed Provider & Equine Nutrition Consultant

We feed a range of Tribute feeds at the farm, and work regularly with Tribute’s equine nutrition team to ensure that each horse is eating an optimal combination of concentrated feed to build the muscle and body condition they need to support their training. Tribute’s equine nutritionists regularly visit the farm to provide feedback on each horse in the program, and while feed decisions are ultimately a collaboration between barn management and each client, we find their feedback a huge asset as we work to support each horse in their work.