Equisearch Advisory Board
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EVENTING Wash Bishop Mike Huber Kim Severson Jim Wofford HUNTER/JUMPER Missy Clark Scott Hofstetter Frank Madden George Morris Louise Serio DRESSAGE Charlotte Bredahl-Baker Lendon Gray Anne Gribbons Peter Lert Axel Steiner WESTERN Todd Crawford Lynn Salvatori Palm Andrea Simons |
EQUINE BEHAVIORISTS Sue McDonnell Katherine Houpt LEGAL ISSUES Mike Beethe Sandra Tozzini RIDER PSYCHOLOGY Janet Sasson Edgette VETERINARIANS Barb Crabbe Joyce Harman Karen Hayes Midge Leitch Matthew Mackay-Smith Duncan Peters FARRIERS Tom Curl Rob Sigafoos Steve Teichman |
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EVENTING At the age of 16, Wash Bishop was invited to train with the United States Equestrian Team eventing squad with legendary coach Jack LeGoff. Ultimately this unique opportunity led to places on the 1980 Olympic Team, at the 1995 European Championships, the 1996 Olympic short list, and placings at international events. On Ask Away, he claimed first place honors at the 1993 Bromont CCI** and the 1994 Rolex Advanced Horse trials, second place at the1995 Rolex Kentucky CCI***, and fifth place at the 1994 5th Fair Hill CCI***. In addition to training with the USET, Wash has also trained with Olympians Jim Wofford and Mike Plumb. While his competition record is extensive, Wash's legacy has been sealed with the success of his students, including 2000 Olympian Julie (Black) Burns, who placed ninth in the individual medal hunt, and 1996 Olympians Mara Depuy, who placed sixth individually, and Canadians Kelli McMullen-Temple and Stuart Black who placed fifth and fifteenth, respectively, individually in the team competition. Stuart placed seventh at the 1998 Badminton CCI**** and third at the 1996 Rolex Kentucky CCI***, both with his Olympic partner, Market Venture. Another student, Lauren Hart, helped the USET squad to a silver-medal performance at the 1999 Pan American Games, as well being short-listed for the 1996 Olympics. Student Julie Gomena won the 1994 Rolex Kentucky CCI***. Wash has also coached four North American Young Rider Champions or Reserves. Currently on sabbatical, he still consults with his longtime clients from his Sherwood Farm in Middleburg, Virginia. Mike Huber has been a selector for the United States Equestrian Team eventing squad for five years, starting with the 1996 Atlanta Olympic team, which claimed team silver and individual bronze. Mike earned his own double gold in the team and individual events riding Quartermaster at the 1987 Pan American Games. He also rode to a team fourth-place finish at the 1990 World Championships, as well as spots on two additional World Championship teams and the 1980 Alternate Olympics. At his facility in Flower Mound, Texas (Gold Chip Stables, named after an Olympic mount), Huber has trained several students who have gone on to compete for the USET, including Cindy Collier who competed as an individual at the 1998 World Equestrian Games. Mike served as president of the United States Combined Training Association from 1993 -1996 and currently sits on the board of the USET and the American Horse Shows Association Events Committees. He has also served on the AHSA and USCTA boards. In addition to his contribution to the eventing chapter of Riding for America: The United States Equestrian Team, Mike has appeared in such magazines as Practical Horseman, Dressage and CT, and Eventing USA. Kim Severson has had her share of ups and downs in the past two years. In 1999 she rode to victory at the Rolex Kentucky CCI*** and Blenheim CCI*** on Over the Limit and the Radnor CCI** on Silent Partner. She and Over the Limit galloped out of the starting box strong in 2000, with a fourth-place finish in the Rolex Kentucky CCI****. The pair led the strong international field following the cross-country phase. United States Equestrian Team selectors chose the pair to represent the United States at the 2000 Pan American Games, but Over the Limit was pulled due to lameness. They won the North Georgia Horse Trials CIC*** and were short-listed for the 2000 Olympic Games, but didn't make the trip to Australia due to another minor lameness problem. Born and raised in Tucson, Arizona, Vinoski trains out of Linda Wachtmeister's Plain Dealing Farm in Scottsville, Virginia, and is coached by former Olympian Jim Wofford. She looks forward to participating in the sport at an organizational level with the United States Combined Training Association.  Jim Wofford has ridden for the United States Equestrian Team at four separate Olympic Games. He galloped to team silver in both the 1968 and 1972 teams. At the 1980 Alternate Olympics, he won the individual silver medal. Jim's winning ways didn't stop with Olympic silver, though. He won a team gold medal at the 1967 Pan American Games, placing fourth individually. In the World Championships, he won individual bronze in 1970 and team bronze in 1978. He's also a five-time winner of the United States National Three-Day Event Championship.Since Jim's retirement as an active competitor, he has devoted his time primarily to the development of top eventing riders. His list of past and current students reads like a who's who in the eventing world. For the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, all the team members, one individual competitor, and two short-listed athletes were current or former students. Team members Karen and David O'Connor won team silver at the 1996 Olympics Games and team bronze in 2000; only needing gold to complete their medal collection, David galloped to the individual gold medal in Sydney. In consecutive years (1998 and 1999), short-listed Beale Morris and Kim Vinoski both have won the Rolex Kentucky CCI***. Wash Bishop rode in the 1980 Alternate Olympics Games, and Juliet Graham rode for Canada in the 1976 Olympic Games. As a tribute to his success as a coach, the United States Olympic Committee named Jim the Developmental Coach of the Year in both 1998 and 1999. His successful training program now has reached eventers everywhere with the publication of his highly regarded book, Training the Three-Day Event Horse and Rider. Following in the footsteps of his father, Capt. John W. Wofford, Olympian and founder and first president the USET, Jim Wofford has served his sport as vice president of the USET from 1988 - 1992 and president of the American Horse Shows Association from 1988 - 1990, secretary of the United States Combined Training Association from 1971 - 1984, and vice chairman of the Fédération Equestre Internationale Three-Day Event Committee from 1986 -1988. HUNTER/JUMPER Out of her North Run in Buffalo, New York, Missy Clark has been one of the most successful hunter/jumper trainers in the past decade; her students have won every major equitation title available and often claim the lion's share of the supporting placings. Most recently, student Sarah Willeman won the 2000 BET/USET Talent Search Final East, arguably the most difficult of the equitation finals to win because of the three-phase format - dressage, gymnastics, and a demanding jumper course. Sarah has also won the Washington International Horse Show Equitation Classic and earned annual placings in both ASPCA Maclay Finals and the American Horse Shows Association Medal Finals the past several years. In 1999, she schooled herself to victory at the R. W. Mutch Equitation, which bans coaching during the competition, and topped the field at the New England Equitation Finals. Sarah also won seven straight junior jumper grands prix on Lapeti in West Palm Beach in 2000. Sarah was a member of the of the winning Zone 1 Prix de States team (Missy was chef d'équipe) at the 1999 AHSA Junior Jumper Championship at the Pennsylvania National Horse Show. In 1999, Missy had students in the five top placings in the Maclay and the Medal and four top placings in the USET Finals East. Missy's career took off in 1993 when Kelley Farmer rode the six-year old Harley, whom Missy owned and trained, to a trio of equitation honors: a Maclay victory and runner-up in the Medal and in Washington. She has taken on many working students who have mucked and groomed their way to victories. Most significantly, Meredith Taylor fought her way to the winner's circle in 1995 with a win in the Medal and seconds at both the Maclay and Washington, impressively on three separate borrowed horses that Missy had trained. Other winners and reserves include Lauren Bass, Erynn Ballard, Leslie Fishback, Courtney Donaldson, Kelly Wilson, and Vanessa Haas. As of 2001, North Run's headquarters are being split between Buffalo and a brand new fully winterized facility in Warren, Vermont. The twenty-six-stall barn and heated indoor will better serve Missy as a home base because of its comparable proximity to major horse shows. From there she hopes to adapt her rigorous show schedule to include trips to Europe to expand her students' horizons in the jumper world. She is a member of the AHSA Equitation Committee and regularly contributes her expertise to Practical Horseman magazine. Ten years after winning his first Leading Hunter Rider Award at the Devon Horse Show - and taking a 10-year sabbatical from showing - Scott Hofstetter repeated his performance in 2000 at the prestigious Pennsylvania show. He was also the 2000 Ocala Circuit Working Hunter Champion on Cill Dara. Hofstetter, who trains with Don Stewart Stables out of Ocala, Florida, concentrated on teaching in those interim years, and many students followed in his footsteps, which include a trio of equitation honors. In 1986, he topped the field at ASPCA Maclay Horsemanship Finals, placed second at the American Horse Shows Association Hunter Seat Medal Finals, and placed third at United States Equestrian Team Medal Finals. In 1999, he trained Emily Williams to the equitation double - winning both the Maclay and the Medal - the first time a rider had accomplished the feat in 10 years. Williams was also third in the Maclay in 1997 and fifth in 1998. In 1999, Don Stewart's daughter, Erin, rode to fourth in the Washington International Horse Show Equitation Classic and sixth in the Maclay; in 1998, she rode her Hilton to the AHSA Small Junior Hunter Horse of the Year title. In 1999, Teddi Jo Mellencamp was Junior Hunter Grand Champion on What Goes Around at the Capital Challenge Horse Show and Washington International Horse Show. Scott regularly contributes to Practical Horseman magazine and travels around the country conducting clinics for riders of all levels. From Hunterdon and Beacon Hill Show Stables, Frank Madden has trained some of the most successful hunter-seat equitation riders in the country, in addition to being a top American Horse Shows Association "R" judge, and a published author. Student Francesca Mazella was a double winner in 1983, topping both AHSA Hunter Seat Medal Finals and ASPCA Maclay Horsemanship Finals. Frank coached Jenno Topping to the Medal win in 1985, and Stacia Klein to the Maclay in 1987. Frank also was chef d'équipe of two Young Rider jumper teams, at Monterrey in 1997 and at the North American Young Rider Championships in 1998. Frank teamed up with Bill Cooney from 1974 - 1990, working out of George Morris's Hunterdon from 1978 - 1984; Frank and Bill opened Beacon Hill in 1995 in South Salem, New York. Frank went solo in 1991, but soon added former student Stacia Klein to his professional staff; they added another dimension to their already successful relationship by marrying in 1997. In the past few years, he has increased his emphasis on jumpers, working closely with his brother and sister-in-law, trainer John and grand prix rider Beezie, who teach and give clinics at the Beacon Hill facility in Colts Neck, New Jersey. Frank judged the United States Equestrian Team Medal Finals West in 1995 and 2000, and the AHSA Pony Finals in 1996, in addition to countless A-rated shows across the country. He and Bill Cooney published the book Fit to Show, a definitive guide to caring for and turning out the show horse. They also published the video Hunt Seat Equitation, a tutorial covering flatwork and jumping. Frank has been a popular featured trainer in Practical Horseman magazine through the years. One of the most visible members of the hunter-jumper community, George Morris springboarded his equestrian career with wins in the American Horse Shows Association Hunt Seat Medal Finals and ASPCA Maclay Horsemanship Finals in 1953 at only 14 years old. Since then he has won Olympic show jumping silver at Mexico City in 1960 and Pan American gold in 1959. He has been a member of eight Nations' Cup-winning teams. In the 1960s George turned his attention to teaching. Many of his former equitation students have since become successful in the international jumper ring, including Olympic gold medalists Conrad Homfeld, Melanie Smith Taylor and Leslie Burr Howard (who also won silver), silver medallists Lisa Jacquin, Anne Kursinski and Peter Leone, and bronze medalist Norman Dello Joio. In 1996, the United States Equestrian Team appointed George assistant chef d'équipe of the Olympic show jumping squad, which won team silver. Under his direction as co-chef d'équipe, the USET show jumpers won the silver medal at the 1999 Pan American Games. He was also co-chef d'équipe of the 2000 Olympic show jumping squads. George currently serves on the AHSA Board of Directors, as president of the Show Jumping Hall of Fame, and as vice president of the American Grandprix Association. Among the many hats George wears, he is also in demand as an AHSA "R" judge who has presided over A-rated shows, as well as many AHSA Medal and Maclay Finals. When not judging, giving clinics, or training Olympians, he resides at his longtime homebase, Hunterdon, in Pittstown, New Jersey. George's first and most famous book, Hunter Seat Equitation, is in its third edition and attracts autograph collectors at shows and clinics across the country. His most recent authorial endeavor is The American Jumping Style, which chronicles the development and establishment of the American forward seat as a worldwide influence. Based at her Derbydown in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, Louise Serio has been an influential member of the hunter-jumper community as a successful rider/trainer, judge and founder of the American Hunter-Jumper Foundation. Louise has been a perennial winner at top A-rated shows from the International Hunter Futurities to the Devon Horse Show to the prestigious fall indoor circuit. At the 1999 IHF, she rode Mysterious to the Grand Hunter Championship, and three times she has ridden youngsters to the Three Year Old Hunter Championship. In 1997, she rode Legend to Devon's Grand Hunter Championship. One of her greatest accomplishments came in 1990, riding Harbor Bay to the Devon Regular Working Hunter Championship and then champion or reserve champion titles at all three autumn indoor shows, a feat for which Harbor Bay was awarded the Protocol Trophy. As a trainer, Louise has led her students to equally impressive accomplishments. In 1999, Jaime Auletto and No Small Wonder were Small Junior Hunter Champions at the National Horse Show. Meghan Moran won the Reserve Champion at the 1997 American Horse Shows Association Pony Medal Finals, following Alexandra Otto's win in 1995. Also in 1997, Christina Simeone was the Amateur Owner Hunter Champion at the Washington International Horse Show. Her daughter Christina is a successful rider in her own right, earning championships and qualifying for indoors and Devon in the junior hunter, jumper and equitation divisions. An AHSA "R" judge, Louise has officiated at the United States Equestrian Team Equitation Finals, AHSA Pony Finals, in addition to A-rated shows across the country. Louise has become an innovative leader in the community by founding the AHJF with fellow professional Geoff Teall. The AHJF showcases the hunter segment of the industry and sponsors the 2001 $100,000 AHJF Hunter Classic Spectacular of Palm Beach and the World Champion Hunter Rider Awards in the professional, amateur owner and pony divisions at the national level, adding adult amateur and children's divisions regionally. The AHJF also offers educational programs, a 401(k) retirement plan, scholarships and grassroots organization. DRESSAGE 
Charlotte Bredahl-Baker, a native of Denmark, represented the United States with her Danish Warmblood gelding, Monsieur, at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, earning the team bronze medal. In 1994 and 1997, Monsieur was the United States Dressage Federation Grand Prix Horse of the Year, while her other Danish Warmblood gelding, Lugano, also earned top honors in 1997 as USDF's Intermediaire II Horse of the Year. Lugano also won the California Horse of the Year at Intermediaire II and Grand Prix, as well as the USDF Regional Finals at Intermediaire II and Grand Prix. Both Lugano and Monsieur qualified for the North American Dressage Championship, where Lugano was the highest placed American horse. This spring, Charlotte rode Waltzing Dream, a Hanoverian mare, to Prix St. George wins at the Paddock and DG Bar. Although Charlotte primarily works on her own at her farm in Solvang, California, she has trained with legendary Germans Herbert Rehbein and Conrad Schumacher while competing on United States Equestrian Team grants in Europe from 1991 to 1993. She is currently an American Horse Shows Association "S" dressage judge and chairman of the USDF Competitors Council. She often travels the country giving clinics, returning to her real estate business, her husband Joel and their 10-year-old foster son, Zachary.Lendon Gray of Bedford, New York, is a longtime international dressage competitor and trainer. She represented the United States at the 1980 Alternate Olympics on Beppo and at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games on Later On. She has won eight gold medals at United States Olympic Festivals on five different horses. An educator at heart, she is chairman of both the United States Dressage Federation Junior/Young Rider Council and the Fédération Equestre Internationale Instructor Certification Committee. In 1999, Lendon unveiled an innovative new competition called the Northeast Junior/Young Rider Dressage Championships, which focuses on the all-round rider and employs a scoring system that equally rewards a written test of horsemanship, a dressage test (Training through Fourth Level), and a group equitation class. Lendon is perhaps best known for her "inclusive" dressage training, which does not discriminate against horses of any breed, size or color. Her two14.3-hand Connemara-Thoroughbred crosses, Seldom Seen and 1994 World Equestrian Games Selection Trial partner, Last Scene, were both competitive Grand Prix dressage horses in their time. In her stable have been Thoroughbreds, Arabians, a Cleveland Bay, ponies and warmbloods. For many years she has contributed to equine magazines, but currently she contributes a monthly "how-to" column focusing on basic dressage training for riders of all disciplines to Practical Horseman magazine. She is also on the Advisory Board for Dressage Today magazine. Anne Gribbons, a native of Sweden, is a Fédération Equestre Internationale "I" dressage judge and an American Horse Shows Association "S" dressage judge and "R" sport horse breeding judge. Anne rode her Dutch Warmblood gelding, Metallic, to Pan American silver in 1995. In 1996, she turned his reins over to Robert Dover, who competed him on the bronze-medal dressage team at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. In addition to Metallic, Anne competed successfully in such international arenas as Aachen, Schoten and Falsterbo on Leonardo II, who placed seventh in the World Championship Trials, was invited to the United States World Cup League Finals, and finished fifth in the United States Equestrian Team Grand Prix standings in 1994. With her husband David, Anne has developed Knoll Farm in Brentwood, New York, into a premier dressage training and warmblood breeding facility, from which have emerged numerous Fédération Equestre Internationale-level riders. She is also a coach and great supporter of the Young Riders program. Since 1996, she has been The Chronicle of the Horse's "Between Rounds" dressage columnist. Anne names Colonel Bengt Ljungquist, the influential first USET dressage coach who brought American dressage to international recognition, as her greatest mentor. She also credits German trainers Harry Boldt, Herbert Rehbein and Dr. Volker Moritz. Anne was the North American representative to the FEI World Cup Committee, is serving a third term on the AHSA Board of Directors, and is a member of the USET Dressage Committee and National Advisory Board. She also vice-chairs the AHSA Dressage Committee. A true Renaissance horseman, Peter Lert currently is an American Horse Shows Association "S" dressage and an "R" sport horse breeding judge. In the past he has been an AHSA "R" judge for hunters, jumpers, western, hunter equitation, western equitation and Paints. He also was a licensed judge for the American Quarter Horse Association, which adopted the showmanship rules he helped develop originally for 4-H. Perhaps most significantly, he has judged the dressage World Championship, the United States Olympic Selection Trials for dressage and AHSA dressage finals. Peter, a native of Hanover, Germany, and graduate of the last mounted class of the United States Army Cavalry School in the 1930s, lives on his farm in the Santa Cruz Mountains south of San Francisco, California, where he recently retired his last broodmare from his small Swedish warmblood breeding program. Today, Peter focuses much of his energies on disabled riders. He chairs both the United States Dressage Federation's Riders with Physical Disabilities and the AHSA's Disabled Sports Committees. In addition, he is an international candidate judge for the International Paralympic Equestrian Committee. Peter also serves on USDF's Historical Committee. He is former USDF Vice President and nine-year Executive Board member. After graduating from the University of California with a degree in Agricultural Economics, he is now an Agriculturist Emeritus. Axel Steiner has been involved with horses all his life as a rider, competitor, teacher, breeder, and last, but not least, as a judge. As one of only two Fédération Equestre Internationale "O" dressage judges in the United States and an American Horse Shows Association "S" dressage judge, he has judged major competitions in 26 foreign countries. His prestigious assignments include being appointed to the judging panel for the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia. He is also an instructor and examiner for all AHSA judges' programs, and is currently on the AHSA Board of Directors and Dressage Committee. Peter is a founding member of the United States Dressage Federation, and on the board of the Dressage Foundation. He and his wife, Terri Miller (a well-known horse show photographer and artist), live on Coronado Island outside of San Diego, California. WESTERN Todd Crawford took the first- and second-place spots at the 2000 $100,000 Cosequin/USET Reining Championship at the United States Equestrian Team Festival of Champions. Also in 2000, Crawford rode down the fence to victory in the Open Reined Cow Horse Snaffle Bit Stakes on Tang N Tecate and the Open High Desert Western Spectacular Snaffle Bit Futurity on Tangys Classy Lady. With his USET first-place partner, Hickorys Holly Cee, he also won the 1999 River Front Farms Cowhorse Derby. In 1998, Crawford rode to American Quarter Horse Association World Championships in Senior Reining on Nijomi Sonny Reb and Senior Cowhorse on Smart Little Scamp. He sits on the AQHA Professional Horseman and National Reined Cow Horse Association Judge Committees, as well as being a recognized AQHA and National Reined Cowhorse Association judge. He has been a regular featured trainer in Horse & Rider Magazine. Born and raised in Mercer, Pennsylvania, he rides and trains reining horses and cowhorses out of his new facility in Santa Ynez, California. http://www.goequine.com/toddcrawford/index2.html  Lynn Salvatori Palm and the Quarter Horse Rugged Lark made each other internationally famous with two American Quarter Horse Association World "Superhorse" titles and their freestyle exhibitions sans bridle at venues such as the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and Equitana USA. In 2000, Lynn won the National Female Equestrian Award, capping her 34 AQHA World Champion and Reserve titles. Around the world and at her two facilities, Fox Grove Farm in Ocala, Florida, and Royal Palm Ranch in Bessemer, Michigan, Lynn conducts clinics that stress dressage for all disciplines, as well as longevity training, all of which hold the philosophy of training the "L.A.R.K." way - love, acceptance, respect, kindness.Her greatest influences have been her parents, who supported her equine education and career, and Bobbi Steele, an early dressage trainer in the United States and trainer for the Ringling Brothers Circus, who gave her the foundation to become a trainer and performer. Lynn's husband Cyril Pittion-Rossillion, who holds a Riding Master Certification from the French National Equestrian School, helps her to hold clinics at their two facilities. Cyril also helped her to integrate European training methods into her program; together they trained Lark Ascending, son of Rugged Lark, to the 1990 Superhorse title. Palm has published articles in magazines from EQUUS to German Quarter Horse, and has produced several training video series, including Dressage Principles for the Western Horse and Rider, Hunt Seat Equitation, The Versatile Hunt Seat Horse, Bridleless Training, and Longevity Training on the Ground. With Horse & Rider Magazine, she wrote the award-winning series, Longevity Training, which is now available as a book. Palm is also an AQHA judge, and a member of both the AQHA Show and Contest and Professional Horseman Committees. http://www.lynnpalm.com Andrea Simons is an internationally respected judge who holds licenses with more than five different breed and discipline organizations, including the American Paint Horse Association, the American Quarter Horse Association, the Appaloosa Horse Club, the Palomino Breeders of America, the Pinto Horse Association of America, the National Reining Horse Association, and the National Snaffle Bit Association. She has presided over prestigious competitions such as the NRHA Futurity, the Appaloosa World Show, the German Round Up and the West Coast Spectacular at Rancho Marietta. Andrea's talents extend beyond the judge's booth to the saddle. Out of Simons Show Horses, she has ridden Paints and Quarter Horses to countless APHA World Championships. In 2000, she captured the World Championship titles in Senior Trail and Junior Pleasure Driving, with top-ten finishes in Western Pleasure and Hunter Under Saddle. In the past she has garnered World titles in Western Pleasure, Hunter Under Saddle and Longe Line. Under Andrea's watchful eye, her amateurs and youth competitiors followed her lead with World titles in Horsemanship. Andrea trained the famous Paint, Mike White, who owns more APHA points than any other Paint in history. Andrea's husband Lynn has handled Paints to many World Championships in the Halter division; together they manage the Paint stud Zippos Sensation, who is the sire of multiple World champions and numerous Futurity champions. They also stand Jetalito, one of the foundation sires of the American Paint Horse Association, whose progeny have won multiple World and international championships. Success seems to run in the Simons genes as their two daughters have cornered the youth market on the Paint circuit lately. In 1997 and 1998, their daughter Jana led the nation in youth points, while in 1998, Jana's older sister, Sara, was close on her heels with a runner-up finish. EQUINE BEHAVIORISTS Dr. Sue McDonnell is a native Pennsylvanian, raised in a dairy farming family in the anthracite coal regions north of Scranton. She holds a 1982 master's degree in psychology from West Chester University and a 1985 PhD in reproductive physiology and behavior from the University of Delaware. She completed post-doctoral study in clinical veterinary reproduction at the University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton Center in 1987 and became board-certified in Applied Animal Behavior in 1991. She is the founding head of the Equine Behavior Program at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, where her work includes clinical, research and teaching activities focused on horse behavior at the Havemeyer Equine Behavior Lab at New Bolton Center. Dr. McDonnell's research interests include several aspects of equine physiology, behavior and welfare. She has also traveled to study equines throughout the world. In addition to laboratory and field studies, Dr. McDonnell maintains a semi-feral herd of ponies specifically for the study of their physiology and behavior under semi-natural conditions. This affords veterinary and animal-behavior students the opportunity for long-term observation of equine social and developmental behavior and for first-hand comparison of horse behavior under free-running and traditional domestic conditions. Dr. McDonnell is the author of a recently released book entitled Understanding Horse Behavior, published by The Blood Horse. http://caltest.nbc.upenn.edu/behavior/ Dr. Katherine A. Houpt, VMD, PhD, certified animal behaviorist, diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Behaviorists, is professor of veterinary physiology in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University, where she conducts classes about problems in equine behavior and how to approach and solve them. She is also Director of the Animal Behavior Clinic at Cornell University Hospital for Animals, where she treats many horses with behavior problems. Dr. Houpt conducts research on equine behavior and welfare, has written the textbook Domestic Animal Behavior, and lectures to professional and lay groups on equine behavior. She resides in Ithaca, New York, with her husband, Dr. T. Richard Houpt, VMD, PhD, also a veterinary physiologist. Dr. Houpt owns an Arabian and a half Arabian/Paint, both of which she rides for pleasure. www.vet.cornell.edu/abc LEGAL ISSUES Mike Beethe is an amateur Arabian horse exhibitor who practices equine, transactional, banking and general corporate law with Dunn, Keller, Gillespie, Johnston & Latz, L.C. in Kansas City, Missouri. In 1999, he was the United States Amateur National Champion in Costume on his Arabian gelding Preemotion. Beethe had back-to-back U.S. Amateur National Reserve Champions in 1998 and 1999 with his breeding stallion SF Psyche Cynead. In 1997 - 1999, he "three-peated" as a finalist for the Arabian Horseman's Awards for Amateur exhibitor of the year. Beethe consistently contributes to law journals, as well as Arabian Horse Times, Saddle & Bridle and America's Foundation Quarter Horse. He also has written for EQUUS, International Arabian Horse and Practical Horseman. From 1998 to 2000, he sat on the American Royal Advisory Board; from 1999 to 2000, he served as IAHA Region VIII Show Commissioner. Sandra Tozzini, Esq., fulfilled her dream of low-cost legal information for horse owners and horse professionals with the publication of Horse Law News, a bimonthly newsletter dedicated to legal issues for the equine professional and the horse enthusiast. The newsletter contains articles on such practical topics as boarding bill problems, veterinary malpractice and trainer negligence. Tozzini has been a horse lover all her life, owning everything from Quarter Horses to Hackney ponies for more than 18 years. Currently she raises Paints and foundation-bred Hackneys. Tozzini is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of La Verne College of Law. In addition, she has been an invited speaker at the annual Equine Law Conference in England, the 1999 and 2000 Equine Law Conference and is an Advisory Board Member for Horse Law: Equine Law & Litigation Reports. After graduation from Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, California, Tozzini clerked for a year and a half at the California Supreme Court and was a Teaching Fellow at the University of Santa Clara School of Law. www.piebaldpress.com RIDER PSYCHOLOGY Dr. Janet Sasson Edgette, PsyD, MPH, is an equestrian sports psychologist and general family psychologist practicing in the western suburbs of Philadelphia. Beside lecturing and conducting workshops in both sport performance and mental health fields nationwide, Dr. Edgette consults individually with recreational, amateur and professional riders, as well as with trainers, instructors and other equestrian-industry professionals. Edgette is author of Heads Up!: Practical Sports Psychology for Riders, Their Families, and Their Trainers, and consulting sport psychologist and columnist for Practical Horseman magazine. Dr. Edgette's work has also been featured in Horse and Rider, Hunter & Sport Horse, The Morgan Horse, Quarter Horse Journal, HoofPrint and the American Horse Shows Association's Horse Show. She has spoken at meetings of the AHSA, International Centered Riding Symposium, American Hunter-Jumper Foundation, United States Combined Training Association and the American Riding Instructor's Association, among others. Dr. Edgette currently rides as a professional in the jumper divisions under the direction of George Morris and Chris Kappler of Hunterdon, Inc., with the goal of showing horses at the grandprix level. For the past few years, she has ridden in the High Amateur Owner jumpers, winning ribbons at such A-rated shows as the American Gold Cup, Autumn Classic, Upperville, St. Christopher's, Winter Equestrian Festival and Budweiser Amateur-Owner Invitational in Tampa, Florida. As a junior, she was a five-time ASPCA Maclay and AHSA Medal finalist, often making the coveted callback and work-off positions. In addition, she won first-place honors in the junior hunter division at the National Horse Show at Madison Square Garden. http://www.headsupsport.com/ VETERINARIANS At Pacific Crest Sporthorse in Oregon City, Oregon, Barb Crabbe, DVM, runs her performance horse veterinary practice, where she works with the philosophy of preserving and maintaining soundness for the "long haul," with careful preventive care, training and conditioning. When those inevitable injuries do occur, she advocates appropriate rest and rehabilitation. Currently under construction is a 4,000-square-foot clinic on 32 acres with facilities for a breeding and foaling center. A second phase is planned to include a rehabilitation center. Since graduating from the University of California at Davis, Dr. Crabbe has contributed articles to many veterinary journals, as well as to such popular magazines as Horse & Rider and Dressage Today. She has written over 200 articles for Horse & Rider, winning multiple American Horse Publications awards. She is also an Advisory Committee member for Dressage Today. As a dressage rider, Dr. Crabbe has earned her United States Dressage Federation Bronze Medal and has ridden up through Prix St. George. With her homebred Oldenburg gelding Darwin, she was the 1997 USDF Horse of the Year at Training Level/Amateur. In 1999, she and Darwin won their Third Level class debut at the Fox Ridge Dressage Show. As an official, she has earned her USDF L-certification and been accepted into the AHSA-R dressage program. Currently she sits on the Northwest Equine Practitioners Board of Directors, and from 1995 to 1998 she sat on the Oregon Dressage Society Board of Directors. At her Harmany Equine Clinic in Washington, Virginia, Joyce Harman, DVM, offers alternative medicine to her clients. Her services include acupuncture, chiropractics, homeopathy, herbal therapy and physical therapy, in addition to conventional diagnostic methods. The combination of these methods to reach the goal of a sound and healthy horse is called "complementary" or "integrative" medicine. Dr. Harman has spoken about her treatment philosophies at venues including Equitana and Equine Affair, in addition to American Association of Equine Practitioners conferences. Her expertise on the effect of ill-fitting saddles and pads has been called upon by magazines such as Practical Horseman. A veterinary graduate of Virginia Tech and a certified acupuncturist and chiropractor, Dr. Harmon is a past president and board member of the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Board, and former chair of the American Association of Equine Practitioners' Sports Medicine Subcommittee on Therapy Options. She owns two horses, an Arabian and a Connemara/Thoroughbred cross that she plans to event. In the wee hours of the morning and between farm calls, Dr. Karen Hayes, DVM, MS, PLLC, wrote The Complete Book Of Foaling: An Illustrated Guide For The Foaling Attendant. She did so because it had become clear to her that veterinarians and breeding professionals were trained only to handle problem foalings, not how to assist and ease a normal foaling, nor how to recognize - and fix - problems early in the foaling process. After earning her veterinary degree at the University of Illinois and working in private practice, Dr. Hayes joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin. There she earned her postdoctoral master's degree in equine reproduction under Oliver J. Ginther, VMD, PhD, who pioneered the use of ultrasound and embryo transfer in mares. More recently Dr. Hayes has written Emergency! The Active Horseman's Book Of Emergency Care and Horse & Rider's Hands-On Horse Care: The Complete Book Of Equine First Aid. She and her husband, Dan, call a farm in Idaho home. There, they spend their spare time maintaining a band of Friesian broodmares and three geldings. They also ride Western trail and dressage, as well as mountaineer, horse camp, drive and farm-work their horses in harness. Midge Leitch, VMD, has attended Olympic horses as an official United States Equestrian Team veterinarian at three Olympic Games--Seoul, Atlanta and Sydney. She has also been stall-side at the 1995 and 1999 World Pairs Championships, the 1998 Singles Driving Championships and the 1998 and 2002 World Equestrian Games, along with many USET European tours. In addition to racking up the frequent-flier miles, Dr. Leitch operates a referral practice at Londonderry Equine Clinic, adjacent to the University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine at New Bolton Center in Kennett Square. The location of her private practice affords her the luxury of cutting-edge technology and a large pool of specialists to help her sort out complex lameness problems. In addition to sport horses, she also treats Thoroughbred racehorses, both flat and steeplechasers.
Dr. Leitch graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine. After earning her degree and completing an internship and residency, she attained a staff position in surgery at New Bolton Center. In 1982, two years into her private practice, she achieved board certification in surgery from the American College of Veterinary Surgeons. She returned to New Bolton Center in February of 2005 to serve as Clinical Radiologist. |
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