Archives: Team
Rick Toering, with his wife Jayne and their two daughters Hanna and Jordan, operate Bent Hickory Farm (www.facebook.com/BentHickoryFarm), a small breeding and competition barn in Northern Virginia, where they produce all-around athletic Hanoverian horses with talent and temperament for the hunter/jumper market. In 1998, the Toerings purchased their first Hanoverian jumper-bred filly. In 2014, a …
George Walker received board appointment to the Mare and Stallion Committee in 2002. Mentored by his great friends, Gerd and Yvonne Zuther, and Fritz Floto, George was ratified as a stallion judge in 2008 after spending time in Germany during the Hanoverian Verband’s 2007 stallion pre-selection phase. He and his wife Catherine own Middlefield Farm …
Meg Williams is a lifelong horsewoman and has been an active member of the AHS since 1986. She was appointed to the Mare and Stallion Committee in 2006 and holds numerous positions within the AHS/ARS organization. Meg owns and operates Oakwood Farms in Lawrenceburg, IN where she breeds, trains, and stands Elite Hanoverian Stallion, Fabregas. …
Cathy Tucker-Slaterbeck has been interested in warmbloods since the 1980s and bought her first Hanoverian mare as a two-year-old in 1990. She had a small breeding operation in Reisterstown, Maryland where she bred occasionally, as her mare are also riding horses, training in dressage. She has been on the AHS Board since 1996 and is …
Suzanne Quarles was appointed to the Mare and Stallion Committee in January 1997 and served as its Chair for 10 years. She and her husband Steve have a 250-acre farm in Mt. Airy, Maryland, and raised Hanoverians for the better part of 25 years. Suzanne imported Hanoverian broodmares, weanling fillies, and six licensed Hanoverian stallions. …
Sandy Hunt grew up with horses, was an active member in 4-H, showing horses in many different disciplines including hunters, dressage and the 4-H horse judging team. She was the owner and Show Manager of Dressage at Copper Creek, an annual series of three, two-day USDF, USEF approved shows. Her daughter Taren competed in Dressage …
Horses have been a part of her life since Anna Jungheit was born. She was raised on a farm in lower Saxony in the vicinity of Hamburg, Germany, where her parents bred cattle and Hanoverian horses. She learned to break and train young horses and spent many years showing them. Today, she and her husband …
AHS Life Member Judy Hedreen, Sylvan Farm, Washington, has been breeding since 1981 and is the breeder of Far Star that represented the USEquestrian and AHS in the 2003 World Championships for Young Jumpers in Belgium; Animation, winner at Spruce Meadows and Champion at Indio; Grand Prix jumper Agincourt; Grand Prix dressage Andreana; USDF Horses …
Originally from England, Vanessa owned and operated Woodridge Farm, near Tulsa, Oklahoma from1981 to 2022. The farm originally operated as a dressage training and boarding facility, then gradually changed into a sport horse breeding and young horse training farm as her interest in breeding grew. During this same time, the farm also grew from 50 …