President
ASHLEY WATTS
(859) 221-9085 liftoffeq@gmail.com |
Ashley is an active professional rider/teacher/trainer with the business Liftoff Equestrian, LLC in the Versailles, KY, area. She has been a KHJA member and on the board for many years. Ashley founded the KHJA newsletter as a means to help communicate current happenings within the equine community. She would like to continue to encourage KHJA members to promote current events, information and news, as well as to help the junior membership form more of a union amongst each other.
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Vice President
JULIE MOSES
(859) 312-8977 beg2dfr@aol.com |
Julie Moses is a native of New Orleans, LA, and has been involved with horses since childhood. As a teen, she spent summers eventing, and has been active in the hunter/jumper community since 1990. She graduated from Virginia Intermont College with a degree in Equine Business Management. Upon relocating to Lexington, KY, in 1998, Julie worked for Hagyard Equine Medical Institute, served as a Department Director at USEF for several years and, since 2003, has worked as an equine insurance agent at Nicholson Insurance Agency. Julie spends her free time competing with trainers Alex Granato and Josh Dolan of Mad Season LLC, and works as a horse-show secretary during the show season. Julie worked as an assistant at the 2010 World Equestrian Games in Lexington, KY, for Show Jumping directors David Distler and Hugh Kincannon; she was the official USHJA photographer for the inaugural 2009 $100,000 USHJA Hunter Derby Finals.
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Secretary
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Having moved to the Bluegrass in 2004 to write and edit for multiple equine and ag magazines based in Lexington, Sarah is now the Director of Education and Development for New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program; she also co-owns Topline Communications and continues to freelance for multiple regional and national equine and farming publications. Sarah has a deep passion for OTTBs, and is enjoying working with her little red horse, Chisholm, as he learns to be a hunter. She sits on multiple boards and committees in Lexington, including the Masterson Equestrian Trust Board of Directors and the Kentucky Horse Breeders' Incentive Fund Advisory Committee.
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Point Secretary
MARK LLEWELLYN
Mllewellyn@ker.com |
Mark Llewellyn has been a resident of Kentucky for more than 25 years, first arriving in 1990 to attend the University of Kentucky. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in agricultural communications. After graduation, Mark accepted a position at Kentucky Equine Research, an international equine nutrition and exercise physiology company with headquarters in Versailles. He serves as the technical writer and editor for the company. Since childhood, Mark has maintained an unwavering enthusiasm for show-ring hunters and hunter seat equitation. Though he has shown sporadically through the years, Mark has recently focused on breeding show hunters. Aside from horses, he enjoys mock trials, livestock evaluation, state fairs, needlepoint, and books from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.
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President
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Joyce currently owns and trains from her Ballyhigh Show Stable, Ltd. located on her family’s Brinsfield Farm, LLC, in Versailles, KY. She has coached numerous winners in the KHJA Medal as well as to year-end awards in the Association. She has had riders compete and place at the Pennsylvania National, the Washington International and USEF Pony Finals, as well as qualify for Maclay regionals. She has won the KHJA Medal Leading Trainer award. She currently coaches an IEA team and the University of Kentucky IHSA team. Additionally, she frequently judges local KHJA shows. She is originally from Cumberland, MD. She graduated from the University of Kentucky with a B.S. in agriculture, with a major in agricultural communications and a minor in agricultural economics. She was a member of the University of Kentucky Equestrian Team, UK Horse Judging Team and the UK Agribusiness Club. Her son, Travis Rogers, is currently serving in the U.S. Navy.
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KENTUCKY HUNTER JUMPER ASSOCIATION
PO Box 761 Georgetown, KY 40324 sarahc232@hotmail.com |
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