about us
We’re a highly collaborative and supportive team, coming together on every project to ensure our clients get the very best result.
Tegan Pedigo
At a very young age, Tegan could be found following her mom, Nisse, around the arena mimicking the gestures and words used in lessons. By the age of three, this insistence resulted in her first pony of her own, a Shetland named Poli that became the mascot during lessons. The insatiable need for horses quickly turned into pursuance of a career full of them. While her childhood was filled with Pony Club meetings, jump lessons, Dressage schooling shows, and trail riding with the barn group, the absolute love for Dressage truly surfaced around age eleven. That’s where Rosaria and Cantor come into the picture. These were the two horses, a schoolmaster and an unruly gelding who’d had too much time to himself, that launched Tegan towards higher riding, putting her in programs like Dressage4Kids,an incredible organization run by Lendon Gray for the youth of Dressage. Over the years since these two have come cantering into her life, Tegan has had many dance partners, and even more education opportunities, especially under her mother, Nisse Pedigo, and Lendon Gray. With the move from Texas to Virginia in 2025, Tegan is opening a new chapter with South Heron Sport Horses, a center point for training of all kinds, jumping, driving, liberty, games, dressage, you name it. In Tegan’s mind and experience, all horses and riders can cultivate trust and partnership through patience and education, tools that she is always continuing to hone with furthered education. With a young career and good head start, Tegan can’t wait to meet more horse enthusiasts of all kinds!
Nisse Pedigo
This “About Pages” has been haunting me for a long time. About pages are supposed to be a list of accomplishments and merits repressing ability and skill. I might get to that eventually, but I’ve found that it’s more important to tell you about me. My journey started like most in this industry, very young and in the extreme of grassroots efforts. At eleven, I started mucking stalls for sidesaddle lesson so that maybe, one day, my trainer would let me have a jumping saddle! I looked at every bit of information as the gold star to my future, and it helped me understand that the passion for horses has to come with the equal passion for seeking knowledge about those horses. And so, that’s what I did. I clung to every piece of information anyone would give me, I evaluated it, I expanded it, I asked questions, I observed, and I still do to this every day. The gift for combining my passion of horses and seeking knowledge about them, has led me to being able to share with others the completeness that partnership with a horse can give your life. This what I wake up every day to do. Making a connected and happy horse and rider partnership is my goal every day and in every lesson, I find I rarely fall short in that goal. To aid this ever evolving goal, I learned about more than just riding and partnership, anatomy, body working, saddle fitting, dynamics, biomechanics, medical research, nutrition, and many other aspects of the horse have all aided in my ability to make riding simply easier, regardless of discipline. I did eventually get that jumping saddle, and I’m glad I did, it led me to a short but bright eventing career early on. After setbacks and falls, I found that I wasn’t able to simply accept a fall or bad ride, the need to dissect it led me back to dressage very time. After I could mull it over no more, my understanding of “Dressage” translating to “Training” and the improvement it provides was launched. My passion to explain this core meaning, the necessity of it, and it’s incorporation into every discipline became the drive behind what I do. Ultimately, I’m just like you, once a nine year old little girl, hissing in the woods to sneak into the neighbors horse pasture, spending days imagining galloping into the sunset, and dreaming of just enjoying my partner. I hope that every partnership that comes in front of me finds that nine year old dream