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 in Blythewood SC where George’s family acquired their first Hanoverians in 1984. Prior to this George had grown up with Thoroughbreds in one capacity or another, spending time at various thoroughbred breeding operations including the Irish National Stud. Over the years Middlefield Farm has been a hands on breeding, raising, and breaking operation. Today George maintains his love and enthusiasm for the Hanoverian as a judge while he and Catherine still ride, and occasionally breed, and start a few horses for their pleasure.