As a child, Sally, loved horses and rode them from the time she was 3, from leisurely riding to jumping and dressage, into her mid-80s.

“As a child, my favorite thing to do was ride horses,” Sally Swift wrote in a newsletter of Centered Riding Inc., of Perkiomenville, Pa. “My mother, who was horse crazy, rented a horse for a month in the summer. Mom loved horses, and she was having a great time sharing her love of them with us.”

In 1985, Sally wrote “Centered Riding,” a book based on her method. Her “Centered Riding 2: Further Exploration” was published in 2002.

Sally became known internationally for the centered riding method, her books, in 15 languages, have sold some 900,000 copies worldwide.

In 2006, she was inducted into the United States Dressage Foundation’s Hall of Fame.