Heels Down Happy Hour Podcast: 2023 HRN Holiday Radiothon
Did you miss the Horse Radio Network’s annual Holiday Radiothon? Heels Down Happy Hour was happy to be included this year! Catch up on all the fun and tune in for our fun holiday cocktail, taste tested by Glenn the Geek himself, and listen in for our interview with the Auburn University Eventing Team. War Eagle!
Click here to stream Hour 4 (HDHH) of the 2023 HRN Holiday Radiothon.
Special Guests:
Stephanie Lambert is a senior majoring in Human Development and Family Science with a medical track, she is the current president of the team. She grew up eventing in Nashville, TN and decided to come to Auburn for the eventing team. She competes at the modified level with her mare Luna and is looking to complete a CCI 1* before she graduates.
Alayna Backel is the current Vice President of the Auburn Eventing Club. She is a junior studying Animal Sciences with a minor in Business. She has been eventing for 10 years and has competed up to the Preliminary level. Alayna and her newest young partner, Gimme Jimmie, will be making their recognized debut together in the spring.
Kate Midgley is a junior majoring in chemical engineering. She has served as the Auburn Eventing clinic chair for the last two years. She competes at the preliminary and CCI 2* level with her thoroughbred, Ditch, and her dutch warmblood, Don Mac, as well as competing in pure dressage with her irish sport horse, Fernhill Lovebug.
More on what we talked about in this episode:
We’re drinking an Apple Cider Aperol Spritz with Glenn and Ashley! | @f+w
The Auburn Eventing Team stops by to talk about their newly minted club status and what’s next for the team. | @AE
On this episode, we share some of our favorite horsey holiday traditions. | @heelsdown
More about our hosts:
Jessica Payne is an international event rider who is rarely seen without her long-haired chihuahua under her arm. She was born in London, Ontario, but grew up in Franklin, Tenn., and graduated from Auburn University with a degree in Animal Science. She’s now a coach, a mom and one-half of Payne Equestrian, a full-service eventing, show jumping and dressage operation based in North Carolina with her Olympian husband, Doug. Jess once lost the tip of her pinky finger clipping her 5* horse, and husband Doug says she can “talk to anyone including a wall….and they will like it!”
Ellie Woznica happily lives on a mountain in northern Pennsylvania in her horses’ front yard. She works from home as a graphic designer, manure mucker, and zoo keeper, but only gets paid for one of those gigs. Ellie grew up showing hunter/jumpers (and still does) but in college she learned to ride western and fell in love with reining and reined cow horse. Outside of horses, Ellie loves to knit, whittle, and write! Her boyfriend says she has too many hobbies.
Justine Griffin is an award winning journalist who has written about everything from horses to high-profile CEOs to her ovaries. (She donated her eggs once.) Two things she loves the most? Whippet puppies and cheese. Justine is a lifelong lover of Thoroughbreds and is a native Floridian.
Many thanks to our sponsors of the Holiday Radiothon this hour: Kentucky Performance Products, Espior Equestian and RideTV.