Trot Talk

#TrotTalk Special Session: WGC edition! Join host David Tuffy Owens for a candid equestrian conversation with 2020 Five-Gaited World's Grand Champion trainer/rider Matt Shiflet on WGC I'm Lookin' At You! Enjoy this Trot Talk on what this American Saddlebred and his achievements mean to the Sultan and Matt Shiflet Stables families in this unprecedented year!

Join us for a virtual visit to Sunrise Stables to talk with Melissa Moore! From fashion school to finding her passion for raising champions for every division to find out more about this one woman balancing act who brings foals, opportunity, and inspiration into the Saddlebred community!

Join us for a special visit to High Caliber Stables to learn more about small-town beginnings for this training and teaching dynamic duo. They share their passion to pay it forward and how keeping the power of the horse at the heart of all they do keep their barn family close even during these trying times caused by COVID-19.

Join us for today's visit to Cater Stables to learn more about the Saddlebred story behind ASHA leader Kristen Cater and what she is doing now to help lead her business, barn and the show horse community through these trying times caused by COVID-19. 

Trot Talk takes the "love at first sight" moments from the Saddlebred Story our Season 1 guests. Join us to hear about how these equestrian influencers fell in love with horses and the American Saddlebred. 

From horse world heroes to famous people from history we hear who our Season 1 Trot Talk guest would want around their table! Join us to get a little behind the Saddlebred Scenes perspective from these equestrian influencers. 

Trot Talk brings you the "best advice" from our season 1 guests! Ring anxiety? Searching for a mentor? Saddle fit questions? No worries, we have advice from some of the best for you! 

Trot Talk visits with a lifelong American Saddlebred lover who has found her passion for dressage with her Saddlebred sport horse superstar New York City Slicker. This sensational and pioneering AOT sits down with host David Tuffy Owens to share her journey as a horse lover whose appetite for knowledge and a challenge has brought her to the elite levels of dressage with the American Saddlebred she loves. 

Trot Talk visits with one of the most effervescent equestrians on the circuit, Ali DeGray. Exemplifying sportsmanship, horsemanship, and friendship in and out of the ring, this multi-breed, record-breaking World's Champion shares with us how enjoying and respecting the horse has taken her to the pinnacle of her equestrian dreams. 

Today on Trot Talk we visit with ASHA President Marty Schaffel to discuss his equestrian journey as a parent, participant, and leader in our community and his outside the ring roles as a professor and entrepreneur.