Heather and Chase Boggio & Jessica Andrews by Taylor, Harris Insurance Services

Send us Fan MailPiper and Traci Brooks speak with Heather and Chase Boggio about being competitive amateur jumper riders while juggling work and school. We also talk with Jessica Andrews about her size inclusive athletic fashion brand, Eques Pante.  Brought to you by Taylor, Harris Insurance Services.Host: Piper Klemm, publisher of The Plaid Horse and Traci BrooksGuest: Heather Hooker Boggio is a third-generation horse girl who grew up in Wellington, Florida. In her junior years she grew up riding with Sharyn Hardy Cole and then Scott Stewart and Ken Berkley. She won tricolors in the Junior Hunters at prestigious shows like the Washington International Horse Show and the National Horse Show. She was WEF Circuit Champion in the Amateur Hunters, USEF Horse of the Year in the Amateur Jumpers and winner of the Washington International Horse Show Senator’s Cup. She was also Captain of the University of Virginia Polo Club Team. Heather now competes with her husband Chase in Grand Prixs and High Amateur Jumpers.Guest: Chase Boggio is an amateur jumper rider based out of his family’s Arbor Hill Farm in Canton, GA. As a Junior, Chase won the 2009 North American Equitation Championship and the 2011 Washington International Equitation Finals, USEF Talent Search Gold Medal and Team Gold Medal at the North American Young Rider Championships. Chase also placed 2nd and 4th in the ASPCA Maclay Final in 2009 and 2011, in addition to earning numerous Junior Hunter and Junior Jumper wins at the WEF, Harrisburg, Washington and the National Horse Show. While in college at Tufts University, Chase earned Grand Prix placings at Devon, Kentucky, Lake Placid, and won the Cacchione Cup in 2016. He graduated the same year, magna cum laude, with degrees in Economics and International Relations. Chase competes with his wife Heather in the Grand Prix and High Amateur jumper divisions.Guest: Jessica Andrews is the founder of Eques Pante- supportive, stylish, and high-quality riding underwear. Having worked in the beauty industry for over 20 years, Jessica has extensive experience helping women feel confident and beautiful. As founder and director of On Location Hair & Makeup, she provides makeup and styling services to the entertainment industry and on red carpets worldwide, with a client list that includes celebrities, producers, directors, and other successful women. Jessica has been an avid rider since childhood, when she could often be found tearing around the English countryside with her pony, Pepper. Now based in the US, she still loves a good gallop on her horse, Nahlea, but reins things in on the centerline.  Title Sponsor: Taylor, Harris Insurance ServicesSubscribe To: The Plaid Horse MagazineSponsors: Purina Animal Nutrition, Pacific Coast Horse Shows Association, America Cryo, LAURACEA, American Stalls, BoneKare, Show Strides Book Series, Online Equestrian College Courses, With Purpose: The Balmoral Standard, and American Equestrian Schooltheplaidhorse.comThank you so much for joining us today on the Plaidcast. This podcast is a labor of love, and every single episode exists because of this incredible community of riders, trainers, barn managers, parents, and horse lovers who show up in the barn, in the ring, and right here with us.At The Plaid Horse, our commitment goes far beyond the show ring. We believe deeply in the power of literacy and education and that every rider, at every level, deserves access to knowledge, stories, and ideas that make them a better horseperson and a better human being. Reading matters. Learning matters. And the stories we tell each other in this sport matter more than we sometimes realize.Whether you are a junior rider picking up your first copy of The Plaid Horse  Magazine, a professional trainer looking for inspiration, or someone who simply loves horses and everything this world stands for then this community is for you. You belong here.We build this together. Every article, every episode, every conversation is an opportunity to learn something new, to feel less alone in the challenges of this sport, and to be reminded of why we fell in love with horses in the first place.Until next time, keep reading, keep learning, keep riding, and remember that the horse world is better when we build it together. I will see you at the ring!