Hi Everyone:
We get a lot of very cool new members. Here’s some WOMEN YOU SHOULD KNOW IN THE HORSE INDUSTRY. Please check them out!
Ginger Kathrens – Executive Director, The Cloud Foundation
Ginger Kathrens is an Emmy Award-winning producer, cinematographer, writer and editor as well as an award-winning author. Her documentary filmmaking trips have taken her to Africa, Asia, Europe, Central and South America and all over the U.S. She filmed and produced the acclaimed Cloud: Wild Stallion of the Rockies and Cloud’s Legacy: The Wild Stallion Returns for WNET’s Nature series on PBS. Cloud will return to PBS in November with Cloud: Challenge of The Stallions. Five years in the making, it is Kathrens’ next chapter in the life of the charismatic wild stallion she has documented since his birth in May of 1995. Ginger’s revealing journey with wild horses has been compared to Jane Goodall’s experiences with Chimpanzees. Her documentation of Cloud represents the only continuing chronicle of a wild animal from birth in our hemisphere. Kathrens was the co-producer and cinematographer of the two-hour Discovery Channel special, Spirits of the Rainforest, which won two Emmy Awards including one for Best Documentary. Additional projects for Discovery included The Ultimate Guide: Horses and The Ultimate Guide: Dogs. Kathrens also wrote, edited, and produced over two dozen segments of the Wild America series for PBS, and has filmed for National Geographic, Animal Planet and the BBC. In 2008, Kathrens completed the cinema verité one-hour program, They Crossed the Mountains, The History of the Western States Trail for the Western States Trail Foundation in Auburn, California. For twenty years, she was a political media consultant and producer, working with Presidents Reagan, Ford, and George H. Walker Bush. Her highly regarded political productions include the award-winning short subject, Steady under Fire, the story of former Colorado U.S. Senator Hank Brown. Ginger is the founder and Executive Director of The Cloud Foundation, a 501(c)(3) dedicated to the preservation of wild horses on our public lands with special attention on isolated, historically significant and genetically unique herds like Cloud’s. She is an informed, impassioned and entertaining speaker on behalf of wild horses from coast to coast. She is an expert on Spanish wild horses and has served as a consultant for the television documentary, Horses of the Conquistadors. You can find GINGER under NON PROFITS.
Margaret Henkels
A desire to completely heal her own chronic personal injuries introduced Margaret
Henkels to Heller work and Heller work with horses. She certified in Equine Natural Movement working under Joseph Freeman in Vancouver, WA. Her own injuries healed, she was inspired to enter the bodywork field and work with horses. Her experience of personal relief supports her passion to heal horses of compensation issues and other body related limitations and traumas. The January 2010 issue of Today’s Horse Trader includes an article written by Margaret about Equine Natural Movement bodywork for horses. An avid horsewoman herself, Margaret grew up riding in Valley Forge, PA. She rode the Connemara and Coast Trails with the Willie Leahy tour in 2002. Margaret studies dressage and is currently working with her BLM mustangs, Coco and Bella. An artist and resident of Santa Fe, NM, Margaret owned a fine art gallery for 15 years. Other career involvements include years in the publishing industry. Find Margaret under HEALTH in our member’s directory.
Linda Rubin – Your Health 321, LLC.
Linda is Vice President and co-founder of Your Health 321, LLC, offers stem cell nutrition for horses, dogs, cats and yes, humans too. Her love for horses came at an early age, with her first word – according to her parents, being “horse”. Growing up in the Marine Corps and moving every year or so made it difficult to have a horse of her own. Linda’s passion was kept alive with visits to horse barns and drawing horses. She started showing Quarter Horses at the age of 15 and was given a Bill of Sale for her first horse, Jay’s Dodger, by her Father on her 16th birthday. Moving to Connecticut after her Father’s retirement Linda showed Jay and took reining lessons from Gail and Al Cibelli until Jay’s untimely death from a twisted intestine. A year later she purchased Oil Play’s Miss, by Oil Play and sold her 5 months later when “Missy” exploded on a trail ride and landed Linda in intensive care with a severe concussion. Linda gambled and later purchased her first Appaloosa out of Winona Princess by Big Britches K prior to the foal’s birth. When the time came, she was happy to see a beautiful, blanketed chestnut filly in the stall! Miss Jubilee Britches K, Jubilee for short, went on to win many halter and pleasure classes and became a great broodmare. Linda served as the Secretary and Newsletter Editor of the Western Massachusetts Appaloosa Association and traveled the New England Appaloosa Show Circuit. In 1978 Linda purchased Dial after Hours, a yearling stallion by Dial Me Too who had won the STAA weanling futurity in New York. Dial was trained by Linda and her friend Karen Thorne, winning year end awards in halter and pleasure classes. Linda turned her attention to racing and Dial’s new career was off to a great start at the age of 7. Linda and another friend, Thoroughbred trainer Dorothy Lowe, trained Dial for racing, using the sand pit, plowed corn fields and mountains to build stamina, endurance and strength. What a surprise to see a chunky halter horse turn into a sleek, mean running machine! Dial retired from racing sound and healthy, coming in second in his first race and breaking the track record at the Northampton Fairgrounds in 1984 running a time of 32.1 seconds for the 3 Furlong Exhibition Race. As Secretary and Newsletter Editor of the New England Appaloosa Racing Association and later President, Linda secured Appaloosa Exhibition races at Suffolk Downs, Rockingham Park and Northampton Fairgrounds. Lung surgery in 1988 forced Linda to sell her horses and move to Florida. Linda is a licensed Cosmetologist, Realtor, commercial artist and has written articles for horse magazines along with several technical manuals for the largest underwriter in Florida. She has taught attorneys and paralegals how to do title searches and real estate closings, and was promoted to Manager of their Paralegal Certification and Placement Program, writing the course book and final exam and teaching the class in various colleges throughout the state. Linda left to take on new opportunities in the real estate field and became interested in stem cell nutrition due to her lung condition and her German Shepherd’s hip problems. Linda has been a riding instructor for Harmony Farms, Horses for the Handicapped for 10 years and enjoys seeing her student’s progress and have fun riding horses. You can find Linda under HEALTH in our member directory.
Renae Dudley
“Even as a little girl, I knew my life would be dedicated to and directed by my love of horses. Renae has an extensive background in the horse industry including over twenty years as an active horse breeder, exhibitor, judge, appraiser, and farm business and marketing manager. Her efforts gained her national and international recognition in the horse industry. The unique combination of “hands on” equine experience and strong marketing instincts enhance her ability to identify customer needs and provide practical and effective solutions. Renae is a founder and co-owner of HiMARKS, LLC, a Professional Horseman’s business software application. She has over a decade of ad sales experience with HorsePower Magazine, a Midwestern regional publication devoted to the promotion of western horse exhibitors and products. Renae also represents the Horse Advertising Network – the first and only horse business vertical ad network. The Horse Advertising Network core technology currently serves over 150,000 websites and delivers over 300 BILLION ad impressions per month. Renae is well known for her equine editorial writing and presentations. She is a graduate of Iowa State University – MS in Education – Special Studies. You can find Renae under FINANCIAL in our member directory.
If you are a member of the WHIA and would like us to spotlight you, please send your info to us and we’ll do it.
You can check out all of our cool MEMBER SPOTLIGHTS by visiting our website at WOMEN’S HORSE INDUSTRY.
Also, we need to make a correction: In our last newsletter we said that you could find Randi Thompson under Riding Instructors. You can also find her under Education.
Finally, we are now gong to be offering MARKETING TIPS for people working in the horse industry. We should have some up later today. Be sure to check them out. And, if you want to submit a marketing tip please feel free to do so. Just send it to whra44@yahoo.com.
Catherine Masters
Executive Director
(615) 730-7833
Tags: equestrian community, Women's Horse Industry
March 1, 2010