Tonya Johnston, Mental Skills Coach speaks with top judge and clinician, Cynthia Hankins- who will be one of the judges for the 2024 ASPCA Maclay Final Championships at the National Horse Show. Tonya also works through some facts, fiction and tools to help you sleep, which is one of the most important mental skills. Brought to you by Taylor, Harris Insurance Services.   

• Host: Tonya Johnston, Visit her Website, Facebook and buy her book Inside Your Ride 
• Guest: Cynthia Hankins has been in the horse business her entire life, wearing different hats and seeing it from different parts of the country and later in Europe. Her junior years culminated with winning the [then] AHSA Hunter Seat Medal Finals, after having won Grand Junior Hunter champion and Best Child Rider that same weekend at the Pennsylvania National Horse Show. Later as a trainer, she coached a Maclay winner. Cynthia has been a clinician for the USHJA EAP program since 2011. As a judge, she has had the honor of judging the Hunter Seat Medal Finals five times, the Talent Search Finals on both coasts a total of five times, and this year she will be on the judging panel for the ASPCA Maclay finals again. Cynthia has lived and shown in Europe and France, where she now spends the majority of her time.
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