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We have a vision to provide all of the equine-related websites in the WHOLE SOUTHERN USA a place to list your business, service, product or supply into one huge directory website and we are constantly developing discipline oriented Partner or subsidiary websites.

We offer special reciprocal linking to other directory-type websites so that we all are in this together! We believe that it is not necessary to be in competition with other, fellow horse websites and we should all work together to provide all of those interested in horses, in the horse business, horse show competitors and managers, horse fanatics (like us!) and advertisers a directory level website for YOU!

There are a lot of great equine websites around and a lot of the same information is disseminated and a lot is different, but wouldn’t it be great to have a ‘regional’ directory to FIND all of these websites? Especially a directory that lists all of these great equine websites and other equine directory/informational sites that pertain to your area of the southern U.S region?

*At HorsesintheSouth.com, we want to give you a one-stop shopping and viewing experience like a huge regional mall of everything that is happening in your neck of the woods! We are starting with the southern section of the United States (think of the U.S. as split into 4 sections) with HorsesintheSouth.com. Later, we will roll out HorsesintheEast.com, HorsesintheWest.com and HorsesintheNorth.com and finally, HorsesintheUSA.com.

Both Premium and Basic listings are available in our Directory Listing for a whole year and you may change your listing and photo/image throughout the year at no extra cost. Premium listing can be associated with up to 6 categories and Basic listing may be associated with up to 3 categories. And, you don't need a website to be in our Directory, so think of this as your own mini-website. The PREMIUM LISTING has your business information, link and email and is listed in the RESOURCE GUIDE sections, too. This is where we publish articles that are associated with the horse business, disciplines, associations, health, disaster support, showing and events, articles, results and more. Read our FAQs page for more information on the Directory and business Resource Guide.

Projects, Development, Website Design, Search Engine Strategies

The foundation for a successful project is a clear understanding of the client’s business and the criteria for success in whatever endeavor is under consideration. We at HorsesintheSouth.com work to identify your key business features and the your position in the overall market. HorsesintheSouth.com works to define the yours proposed strategy, analyze the provided content, research the market and define the all important target audience. This leads to an unequivocal list of real world goals and a crystal-clear understanding of your objectives.

We are 'horse people' who work and play in the industry and we are dedicated to supporting the equestrian industry in any way we can!

We create original, high-quality designed web pages, giving your business the professional touch and with a unique flair.

Our prices are competitive, especially for the quality of work that you receive. Much effort goes into developing your site or pages and in submitting it to the search engines. Search engine submission is on a scheduled basis. Get our expertise to provide you with the know-how on the tips and tricks in marketing your service or product on the Internet. You will reach a huge audience by being a part of HorsesintheSouth.com!

Knowledge about the Horse Industry and in Internet, Software and Computer Systems Design, Development and Project Management

We have an extensive development background in: Project Management, Database Design, Systems Engineering, Business Analysis, Graphic Design, Print Design, Marketing and Search Engine Placement, Webmaster, Datamaster, Equestrian Knowledge: theories in "centered and balanced riding", natural healing, alternative therapy, Tahition Noni Distributor - Equine and Canine Essentials are used everyday, magnetics (Nikken Independent Wellness Consultant), TTouch Training and equestrian instruction and showing.

J.R. Khan & Teri at a show.
He's 18hh & she's 5'8"!

Teri Rehkopf, President, CEO- Teri's background is as an AVP, Sr. Business Analyst, Systems Engineer II and Project Manager and Computer Security Analyst for Barnett Bank Technologies Division - Asset Management (later this area became Bank of America Asset Management Systems). Before that, she was the Financial/Systems Analyst for the Investment Division for Barnett Trust Company. Her degree is in Computer Information Systems. (Before she had her children, she was working on her degree in Photography and Design.) While working for the bank Technologies Division and the Trust Company, she wrote business plans/specifications for the bank's "business partners", provided design specs for applications, technical support, database conversion and project manager and Sr. business analyst for the division.

She also was just accepted into the prestgious Princeton Premier Business listing for 2008-2009.

UPDATED 7/17/08 - Teri is also a member of USDF, USAE, USEF, USET, NFDA and owns Lifetime Teri on "Rocki" - Glenord's Rocket Dancer - Clan Butter Glenord's Glened x Rocket to Antares. Dressage Equitation USDF/USEF member horse, an American Warmblood out of a champion Budweiser Clydesdale crossed with a racing TB-App mare, Glenord's Rocket Dancer. She previously owned 18hh J.R. Khan, seen above and currently owns an ex-racehorse, Panimetro at Teri's place with kate & bo from VICCTRE Panimetro, rescued from the Virgin Islands, cared for by VICCTRE. He had broken his left front leg in 4 places during a race. He laid down for long periods of time and the leg has healed, but does have some calcification in the fetlock, so he is her mare's companion horse. Metro is on the cover and as the December horse on the 2009 VICCTRE calendar. You'll see him running around still like a racehorse!

Teri adopted 'Metro' from Habitat for Horses in March of 2007 when he was brought here from the Virgin Islands. He is such a character and loves people! He can still run around, buck and play and jumps over a water puddle in front of his paddock that can fill up when it rains a lot. Both horses have wonderful stalls with fans and open access to paddocks. Each has their own pasture that the paddock gate opens into, they get fed 3 times a day plus a lot of loving and TLC, so they are in "horse heaven".

Teri has ridden all of her life an she is an absolute horse 'fanatic'! She has ridden most disciplines. She walked 3 miles every week from her elementary school to ride at a rental barn and rode some of her friends horses. Finally, when she wa 12, she got her first own horse of her own to care for and retrain from being a wild, always wanting to run and jig, to a horse that would walk and canter just from a lift on the reins. Her first saddle was a McClellan Army saddle that she hated, so she rode bareback most of the time until she finally got an English saddle in her later teens. She would do everything on her horse 'Scottie' (short for Great Scott) - riding for miles all around her family's 30 acres in the woods of Mandarin/Greenland/Bayard area, going swimming bareback in the clear water of the 'barrow pits' that were dug to build I-95, jumping over 2 long pieces of moulding spread out over the long side of 2 sawhorses, running barrels and pole bending, galloping over a 24+ 'natural' jump course she made of made of piled up tree limbs and logs, spanning about a mile, weaving in and out of trees, ducking under low-hanging branches, sliding down a steep embankment, and generally being a adventurous, horse-loving teenager.

At Florida State University from 1968-70, she rode horses for the FSU Riding club, working the horses and helped to train some of the horses to jump on their cross-country course.

When she lived in Nashville, TN from 1970-80 and was married to Mark Ellerbee of the Oak Ridge Boys (their drummer and backup vocals) she rode, trained and showed a few client horses. In 1973, she bought her own 3/4 Arab and 1/4 Quarterhorse 2 year old stallion to train and show locally. She showed in Western Pleasure, Equitation and Hunt Seat, even placing 11th in her hunt seat class at the 1978 Appaloosa Nationals on a gorgeous black, blanket-spotted stallion she rode for a client. She also rode another gorgeous Palomino stallion in Western Pleasure and a young 16.2 hh Appaloosa gelding.

In 1980, she moved back to her home in Jacksonville, FL and completed her college degree. She rode friend's horses off and on and in 1991 got her own ex-racehorse Quarterhorse, 'Sunny', and began riding Dressage and later in hunters and jumpers. She sold him in the mid-90's and got her mare, 'Rocki' as a 2 1/2 year old. Claire Lee of what is now Haddenloch Farm (used to be Dexter Farm) first backed Rocki while Teri was healing from having 6 cracked ribs from a fall off of her ex-QH racehorse, when she missed a tight turn to a jump (a perpendicular jump that was higher than she was used to and looked too late to next jump, so turned Sunny into the jump standard - fell onto the hard sand - ouch!) She had expierienced a couple of other 'falls' on the 'fast' Sunny with associated injuries, so she had to promise her employer that she wouldn't jump anymore!

So, this is where she got her American Warmblood, 'Rocki' to ride Dressage and English Pleasure (she did jump her in Hunter classes when she first got her, but again, after the previous falls and injuries from Sunny, it was better that she ride Dressage instead). Rocki is still with her at 15 years old and is still wonderful and in her prime (Clydesdales mature late - Rocki was actually lazy until she turned 10). Also, Teri 'learned how to ride correctly' by then, i.e., how to really ride Dressage & give with the arms/elbows, meld with the horse, inside leg to outside rein, half-halt, etc.

Boy was she excited when she finally 'felt' this for longer than just a few minutes! She called her trainer, Kathy Daly of KDEquine Training, and excitedly told her that she now knew what she had been trying to get across to her for the past 5 years! So, instead of it taking her 45 minutes to warm herself up while confusing her horse by 'hanging on the reins' and not let her go forward INTO the reins, she can get on and have a great ride in 20 minutes, both she and her horse warmed up almost immediately. Rocki really 'thanks' her now... all she has to do is to 'think' a movement and Rocki will comply... ahhhh... as was said, a true horse fanatic.

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