Muffy Seaton from Williston, SC, is a well-known driver, trainer and breeder of driving ponies. She has been an active CDE and Pleasure Driving competitor, judge and clinician for the past 28 years. In addition Muffy has served on ADS & USEF driving committees and has been the Mid-Atlantic Regional ADS Representative for three years. She is a Registered USEF and ADS judge in Pleasure, Combined Driving and Driving Dressage. She also is one of very few worldwide to hold the prestigious Light Harness Horse Instructors license given out by the British Driving Society.

Driving her Dartmoor pair of “Fleas”, Muffy has won every major Combined Driving Event in the East and in 1997 was invited to represent the United States at the Royal Windsor Horse Show in England where she placed third overall and was the highest placed American. She has been the USEF National Pony Champion 4 times, first with a four-in-hand and then with her pair. In 2005 she trained and qualified the single pony who won the gold medal at the World Pony Championships in England. She is now training and competing a new large pony, with the Pony World Championship as a goal.
She and her husband, Doug, run a residential driving program from their farm in South Carolina open to any and all drivers and their horses to come and learn more about driving.

As a clinician, Muffy believes a strong bond of confidence has to exist between the driver and the driving horse in order to have a safe and happy turnout. She stresses communication and trust in all her training sessions. She feels that without communication, there can be no trust and therefore no teamwork between driver and horse.

Muffy and Drive On Productions have released a book and a video called “Bending the Driving Horse” that outlines her training methods of producing balanced happy driving horses, as well as the videos “Turnout and Presentation” and “Combined Driving 101”. Her newest video, Navigating 101, helps with questions from would be navigators. Drive On Productions is now working on a new video addressing the basics of harnessing for those new to the sport of driving.

Her website is www.muffyseaton.com where you can keep up with clinic schedules, in house training, and current events.