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Administrator: Stacey Girletz
reiningalberta@gmail.com
Po Box 10279 Airdrie, AB, T4A 0H6
Office Hours:
Monday-Friday 9:00am to 4:00pm
Saturday 10:00am to 3:00pm
Your Show Management Team
Your 2025 Board of Directors
The Reining Alberta Board of Directors welcomes feedback from our club members. To get ahold of us individually please contact reiningalberta@gmail.com and our Administration will forward your email to the party you would like to get ahold of.
President
Taylor has been a member of Reining Alberta for 3 years. He brings 10 years experience in an executive level position in the oil and gas industry. He hopes to help make a positive impact with his experience, and represent Northern Alberta.
Llana Malmberg resides near Blackie AB with her husband Kelly. They are heavily involved in Agriculture and Grain Farming. Llana works as a Contract Bookkeeper and raises a couple reining horses each year. They have two grown daughters who live in Calgary with their spouses.
Christine Lamport, from Rocky View County, started Reining in 2009 with her very first Green Reiner class at a South Branch show in Cochrane, Alberta. She joined the South Branch Committee as Chairperson in 2016 and 2017 as way to give back to Reining Alberta. She has continued to serve the club and been secretary for a few years now while continuing to show at the Classic Shows.
Residing in Lloydminster, Jared brings over twenty years of involvement in the reining world to our Board. Starting out with branch shows, he currently fills the role of Cinderella for his wife and daughter at reining shows here and abroad, while awaiting his turn to get in the pen. His desire is to provide opportunities for the entire membership as he feels it is our grassroots riders and trainers who drive our industry. Never hesitate to bend his ear when you see him, he’s always open to hearing how we can make things better.
By education I am a Chemical Engineer and have worked in the energy industry for over 40 years. In 2003, my family and I bought a ranch near Caroline, Alberta and at that point in time we decided we should learn to ride a horse. Our initial introduction to riding was with Clay Webster. You couldn’t find a better person to get introduced to riding. In addition to teaching us to ride and chase buffalo he helped us purchase our first reining horse “Willow”. Both my daughters Emily, Katie and I showed Willow with Reining Alberta until her retirement last year. She is now a broodmare with her first offspring to hopefully enter the RA futurity in two years. Emily has retired from reining, but Katie continues to show in the non-pro classes. We have been members of Reining Alberta since 2005 and currently ride out of PMR and train with Sage and Terry Lee.
Rocky Turel and his wife Christa run a Reining horse training facility West of Olds Alberta in Eagle Hill called CR Equine Services. Rocky has been a Professional Farrier shoeing performance horses in all disciplines since 2000 and has been a part of Reining Alberta alongside his wife since 2003.
Horses have been part of my life since I was 11 years old and my Family moved
onto an acreage just east of Calgary, near Delacour, AB.
In 2005 a friend introduced me to this really cool discipline called ‘Reining’. Reining ‘officially’ started for me in 2006 as
more of a “let’s try something different” with my horses, I seriously never in a
million years thought I would still be doing it… 17 years later, I’m still here and still
loving it!
Shelby Mitchell
Director & Youth
Shelby has been a professional since 2010.
Right after high school she went and worked for top trainers Jesse Beckley and NRHA 4 million dollar rider Craig Schmersal.
Currently she resides in Cochrane Alberta and works and trains out of Twin Valley Stables in Springbank, Alberta.