Meet Lynn Gallup

Riding Instructor, Gaited Horse Clinician, Multi-Gaited Breed Horse Show Judge

Lifetime Equestrian

Lynn Gallup is the owner-manager of and riding instructor at Gracewood Farm Paso Finos, established in 1984, specializing in the breeding and sales of quality versatile Paso Fino horses. Formerly she was co-owner of Crickhollow Paso Fino Farm established in 1977.

Gaited Riding Instructor and Horsemanship Clinician

Lynn Gallup gives private riding and horsemanship lessons on her Paso Fino horses to all ages of riders ... in the past as young as age four to as old as age 65! She has also shared her knowledge and experience as a gaited horsemanship clinician in North Carolina, Virginia, Oregon and Alaska. Gaited breeds of horses that have participated in Lynn's clinics are: Paso Finos, Walking Horses, Rocky Mountain Horses, and Kentucky Mountain Saddle Horses. In her other time, Lynn is a Web Technologies instructor at a Community College.

Paso Fino Horse Show Activities

Lynn began riding Paso Finos in 1975 and first started exhibiting them in 1977 at the Piedmont PFHA and Atlantic PFOBA regional shows. She won the Reserve National Pleasure Gelding Championship on Viajero Hermoso in 1977 in Montgomery, Alabama, and numerous Atlantic and Piedmont PFHA regional High Point awards with her Paso Fino horses. Lynn continued to show actively into the 1980's winning the first National Agility Champion on Pasiflora Sin Par and other national placements in Versatility, Pleasure and Western Pleasure. Other proud owners also have enjoyed show ring success with their "de Gracia" bred Paso Finos.

More recently, Lynn supports the Piedmont PFHA regional shows, the Piedmont Futurity, the PFHA Stallion Auction and Breeders Sweepstakes class showing her "de Gracia" Paso Finos. Her 2001 gelding Teson de Gracia won a 2002 Piedmont Futurity Championship, as well as winning a PFHA National High Point Bellas Formas award.

Paso Fino Horse Association Activities

Lynn Gallup has been an active PFHA member since 1977, breeder, exhibitor, owner-trainer, judge and breed promoter. She is a Lifetime PFHA member, and has been a member of Piedmont PFHA since it was started in 1978. Lynn was the Chairperson of the PFHA Communications Committee and a member of the PFHA Marketing Committee for seven years. She has been the Piedmont PFHA Vice-President and served on their Board of Directors for four years. Lynn has participated on the NC State Fair Horse Show Advisory Committee and as Paso Fino show chair. She has been Piedmont PFHA's breed representative for the NC Horse Council for many years.

Paso Fino Horse Show Judging

In 1992, Lynn Gallup was certified as a Paso Fino Horse Association judge, and became a Senior Certified PFHA judge in 2000. She is currently a Registered "R" Paso Fino judge with the U.S. Equestrian Federation. Lynn is honored to have been able to serve as judge for the PFHA Paso Fino Grand National Championship Show in Perry, Georgia in 2000 and 2002. She has judged both the West Coast Paso Fino Championship twice; and the prestigious Piedmont Classic in Asheville, NC twice, including when it became the first USEF "A" rated Paso Fino show ever; at that time it was the largest Paso Fino regional show in the USA.

Mountain Horse Show Judging

Lynn Gallup is a Senior Certified show judge with the Rocky Mountain Horse Association. Lynn is also an "AA" Judge with the United Mountain Horse Association, and a judge with the Kentucky Mountain Saddle Horse Association/Spotted Mountain Horse Association. Lynn is honored to have judged the Rocky Mountain Horse International Show in Lexington, Kentucky in 2001, 2005, 2007, and 2010, including being the Timed Events Judge in 2009. Lynn was selected to judge the 2011 Kentucky Mountain Saddle Horse International Show at the Alltech Arena in Lexington, Kentucky. She also, judged the 2002 RMHA International Futurity Show and the 2007 KMSHA International Futurity in Lexington, Kentucky.

Horse Show Steward

In 2011, Lynn became a certified PFHA Paso Fino Show Steward, an United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) "r" C2 Steward, and an Arabian Horse Association Steward. She was the RMHA International Show Equipment Steward in 2003 and 2004. Lynn has officiated as a steward at Paso Fino, Saddlebred, Morgan, Hackney, Roadster, and Friesian class horse shows in 2011. She also became certified in CPR in 2011, and in case needed, for all the equine activities she is involved with.

Experience the smoothest ride with Gracewood's Paso Fino horses. Schedule a visit for a test ride, plan for a horsemanship riding lesson with Lynn Gallup or plan for a horsemanship clinic with Lynn in your region. Call 919.961-0675 or email Lynn.