Featured Rider March 2019 AADA Featured Rider “Anke Ott” Name: Anke Ott Currently living: New Canaan Connecticut Horses currently owned: Mercenario FC 15 years old, PRE approved breeding Stallion Favorite Horse’s Name: barn name “Matcho” When did you start riding: As a 9 year old girl in Saarland, Germany. What or who inspired you to ride […]
Featured Rider February 2019 AADA Featured Rider “Ruth Shirkey” Name: Ruth Shirkey Currently living in Livermore, California (SF Bay Area) Horses currently owned: Wyleigh Princess, Hanoverian mare, coming 9 Royal Rhapsody (Roxie), Hanoverian filly, Weanling I started riding in the Dressage discipline in 2004. Prior to that, ever since I was a toddler, I have […]
Featured Rider January 2019 AADA Featured Rider “Dawn Metzger” I currently live near The Woodlands, Texas, about 40 Miles north of Houston. My current horse: Corrado M, a 17 year old Andalusian gelding.He is my favorite horse. I started riding around age 12, and got my first horse, a quarter horse mare at age 16 […]
Featured Rider December 2018 AADA Featured Rider “Timmie Pollock, Phd” Name: Timmie Pollock Where do you live: California Current Horse(s) Name, breed and age: Tiadoro Hanoverian Age 8 Finnegan Westphalen branded Oldenburg Age 8 Narcissa Hanoverian Age 27 (retired) Dam of Tiadoro Silhouette Oldenburg Age 21 (retired) Dam of Finnegan Daughter of Narcissa Favorite […]
Featured Rider November 2018 AADA Featured Rider “Kaitlyn Naughton” Name: Kaitlyn Naughton Where do you live? Rhode Island Current Horse(s) name, breed and age: Baron, 2005 RPSI Gelding. When did you start riding? I was about 6 years old when I began taking riding lessons. Prior to that I can remember staring intently from […]
Featured Rider October 2018 : “Jennifer Bryant” Current Horse(s) name, breed and age: My retiree is Davignport’s Diamond, a 2003 Oldenburg mare Davignport x XX). My current dressage horse is Dux, a 2008 Westfalen gelding (Diamond Hit x Florestan I). Favorite Horse’s name: I’d feel disloyal playing favorites! When did you start riding? At age 10 What […]
Featured Rider September 2018 AADA Featured Rider “Wendy Furlong, DVM” I always wanted to ride. My parents had no idea where this child came from as they were both die hard tennis and golf players! I graduated from a guinea pig to a dog to a pony. I rode for a horse dealer through high […]
Featured Rider August 2018 AADA Featured Rider “Armande Herold” Born in the The Netherlands in 1961, I was not exposed to horses until 1967 in Hamburg, Germany. My father worked for Philips and my family was transferred every three to four years. Our new neighbors’ daughter, who was my age, dragged me to the stables. […]
Featured Rider April 2018 AADA Featured Rider “Samatha Farrow” For as long as I can ever remember, I have always wanted to ride and be around horses. My childhood was spent in South Africa, galloping ponies along the edges of sugar cane fields and swimming with them in a lake, bareback, and with just a […]
Featured Rider March 2018 AADA Featured Rider “Gardy Bloemers” I am originally from The Netherlands and started my riding career on ponies. After moving to Virginia at a young age and living on a dairy farm, I competed pony hunters, rode all over the countryside with my friends and foxhunted some too.. I attended college […]