BETSY BALL, TRAINER and CO-FOUNDER
Betsy has many 20 years of professional experience buying, selling, and training horses and riders. She has over 20 years of practical experience in a wide range of English disciplines and professional equine venues. As a kid she worked for Bill and Lori Hoos at Wil-lo Blue Farm in Tennessee, where she moved through the young riders' program and ran her first CCI*. In college, Betsy rode on the Mississippi State University IHSA Equestrian Team and interned as a journalist at the Chronicle of the Horse; she also exercised steeplechase horses for Doug Fout in Virginia.
Like Betsy, Jessie has over 20 years of practical experience riding and working with horses. Jessie grew up in Massachusetts riding with Carol Mayo and Stephie Baer. Through college she rode on the Smith College IHSA Equestrian Team and rode/competed horses for Stephie at Chase Farm. After College, Jessie took some time off from riding to get her Master degree in Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. She has pursued a number of dress related jobs including textile conservation, museum collections, and also film, but has decided horses is where her heart lies.
