Amateur Hour with Jessica Paquette

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.