Trainer John Amber
Jim and I are excited to announce that John Lee Amber has been hired as trainer for our farm. He comes to us from Germany where he has spent the last 8 years working as a rider/trainer at such places as Gut Fuchtel (Vechta), Gestuet Sprehe (Loningen-Benstrup), and at Johannes Westendarp's farm in Wallenhorst. While there, he had the opportunity to ride stallions to prepare for the stallion tests and exhibitions, and to ride young horses for sale and mares to prepare for their mare tests. He is originally from VT. While here in the states, he worked for Huntington Farm, South Strafford, VT and for Ruth Hogan-Poulsen in Wellington, FL. His rider accomplishments in the U.S., include USDF Bronze and Silver Medals, participation in the North American Young Riders Championships, and high-scorer for the NAYRC Region 8 Team qualifiers, and NEDA 4th Level Year-End Champion. John is a gifted, tactful rider who will ride the young horses here on the farm as well as continue the education of Shakespeare RSF and Fhitzgerald, hopefully aiming them for an FEI career in dressage. We are thrilled to have him as our new employee.

Quinnton Alston
Quinnton Alston came to us highly recommended as a good worker to clean stalls. He responded to my question of, "Quinnton, you're tall and you have a way with horses, Can you run fast?" (He had run track in high school, lucky for us!) He demonstrated an unbelievable way with the young horses and he has launched a new career as a runner of in hand horses with the tutelage of my good friend, Bob Orton, who knows more about presenting sport horses in hand than most of us will ever know. Quinnton is an asset to the farm and we hope to help launch his promising career as an in hand handler at the breed shows and breed inspections.

Beth Hart
Beth Hart used to work full-time as our young horse rider, until she zigged when a young horse zagged and she was kicked, resulting in an injury from which she had a long recovery that took her away from us as trainer of the young horses. We are thrilled to have her back on the farm again, breaking young horses part time. It is a bright spot in our week when she comes to the farm. She did a super job with Reggie, and we hope that she will increase her involvement as we have more and more riding horses to break to saddle on the farm.

April Lambert
Where would we be without April Lambert, whose famous saying is, "No problem"? I have never met anybody who is so willing to do anything on the farm, from cleaning stalls to weed-wacking, to starting up the generator. She is the rock of our daily existence.

Alaina Schmidt
Alaina Schmidt came to us three years ago recommended to us as a "good kid with a great work ethic". She started working when she was 14 years old helping with the afternoon feeding and general help on the farm. Her mom used to drop her off and pick her up in the evenings, before she was old enough to drive. Now she is a young lady with her own car and Jim would be lost without his afternoon feeding with Alaina as his sidekick. She is mature beyond her years and just an all around great person.