Amateur Hour with Jessica Paquette

This week's episode of The Amateur Hour with Jessica Paquette talks about safety - from wearing a helmet to the risks and choice to not wear one. Guests include high level amateur show jumper Alex Crown, Grand Prix dressage rider Silva Martin and Thoroughbred trainer and equine professional Ali Fulmer. 

This week's episode of The Amateur Hour with Jessica Paquette is all about gearing up for horse show season from the logistics to the mental preparation to goal setting. Guests include Sonja Keating, United States Equestrian Federation General Counsel and Chief Operating Officer along with Hope Glynn, a premier equestrian, coach and clinician. 

This week's episode of The Amateur Hour with Jessica Paquette explores the concept of confidence - how do you get it? How do you keep it? Does everyone have it except you? Guests include Hannah Lavin, the owner and trainer at HL Select as well as Stella and Clara Propp, two successful young amateurs with significant social media following.

This week's episode of The Amateur Hour with Jessica Paquette explores the concept of progress and the way it can shift and evolve through different seasons of equestrian life. Guests include Sara Ladley, an accomplished amateur based out of Bargee Farms in Pittsburgh, PA and Melissa Hubbard, the Chief Marketing and Business Development Officer at Essex Classics as well as a lifelong equestrian from Massachusetts.

This week's episode of The Amateur Hour with Jessica Paquette explores the resurgance in popularity of Thoroughbreds as sporthorses. Guests include professional equestrian and member of the USHJA Thoroughbred Task Force Sue Lyman, Carrie Brogden of Machmer Hall, a premier Thoroughbred breeding farm and OTTB expert Jen Roytz of Brownstead Farm.

This week's episode of The Amateur Hour with Jessica Paquette explores the rising costs in the equestrian world. Guests include international show jumper Schuyler Riley, USDF Region 5 Director Heather Petersen and Katie Walsh, the owner of Turning Tide Farm.

This week's episode of The Amateur Hour with Jessica Paquette explores the tools available to report unethical behavior at a horse show and what safeguards are in place. Guests include Sonja Keating, United States Equestrian Federation General Counsel and Chief Operating Officer and O. King Hackley, III, a licensed judge and official based out of Wellington.

This week's episode of The Amateur Hour with Jessica Paquette explores the evolving journey of being a horse person and what that can look like through different seasons of life and how horses remain interwoven through our self-identity even through the loss of "heart horses". Guests include amateur equestrian and life-long horse person Isabelle O'Connor and Carolyn Lavin, a decorated equitation rider. 

In this week's episode, Jessica discusses the evolving issue of the social license to operate and how it impacts the equestrian landscape. The guests include Lisa Lazarus, the Chief Executive Officer of the Horse Racing Integrity and Safety Authority (HISA) and Olympian David O'Connor, the Chief of Sport at the United States Equestrian Federation (USEF). 

In this episode, Jessica explores the complicated topic of the client/trainer relationship. Guests include Cellar Door Farm's Kelly Jennings, longtime A-circuit trainer Archie Cox of Brookway Stables and Natasia Linnd, a Kentucky-based eventer with a broad social media following.