Kristen Phelps

Crescendo Training Centre, LLC,
Ephrata
Two loans totaling $242,700

HORSES THAT AREN’T JUST HORSING AROUND. By the age of fifteen, Kristen Phelps (pictured right) had trained her first horse and by the end of high school she had built up enough clientele for a business. When Kriss, as she is known by friends, moved to Pennsylvania in the mid-90’s she started from scratch but soon had a booming business again. Crescendo Training specializes in breeding and training Arabian horses and is the only high level regional training facility to specialize in the good natured yet high spirited breed.

For many years, Crescendo Training operated out of another business’s training facility. Kriss knew that to produce the best horses she needed to have control over the entire process and renting space was not allowing her to do that. Kriss’s first step out was the purchase of a farm in Ephrata. Kriss approached Community First Fund for financing of the enclosed 80 by 180 foot arena and 16 additional stalls. An enclosed arena will allow Crescendo to train and teach year round, while offering a controlled environment to produce high quality show horses.