Meet The STALL 13 TEAM

Executive Director

Horse(s): Too many to name but Neil (Lute's Angel), Wolf (Louisiana Moon), Koops, and Rhodie (Western Ridge) aren't going anywhere anytime soon. 

Discipline: Eventing, Fox Hunting and a bit of everything else

Aubrey Graham is a Thoroughbred trainer, Eventer and Anthropologist based in Lansing, New York. She left academia in 2019 to pursue training full time and has since run Kivu Sporthorses & Training, LLC, a Thoroughbred-forward training center and sales program where she focuses on restarting horses off the track and retraining those further along in their careers. Aubrey has evented through Preliminary, regularly brings a string of young TBs along through the lower levels, coaches a small eventing team, is a Ride IQ coach, and writes the weekly “Thoroughbred Logic” articles for Horse Nation (and is working on a book with the same premise). In 2023, she opened “Thoroughbred School,” an in-house and virtual program that helps train students how to ride and handle Thoroughbreds and extends that training through on-site and off-site Thoroughbred Logic Clinics. Aubrey has competed in the Retired Racehorse Project’s Makeover since 2018 (in Eventing, Show Jumpers, Field Hunters and Dressage).

Board Chair 

Horse(s): Ranger (JC: Cowboy Night)

Discipline: Eventing

Amanda is a long-time horse enthusiast who rediscovered the joy of riding as an adult when she was convinced by Aubrey to try eventing. Since then, she’s purchased her first horse, learned a lot about OTTBs, and begrudgingly completed a few HTs. Amanda pays for her horse through work in international development and as a professor at Emory University. She also runs a small hobby farm outside of Madison, Georgia. Her previous board experience includes nature and animal welfare-focused organizations such as Birds Georgia, the Sierra Club’s Georgia Chapter, and Wild Nest Bird Rehab. 

Board Vice Chair 

Horse(s): Calvin (Jacapo), Lincoln (Autobetheman), Gin (Ginnsu Warrior), Henry (Gold in Them Hills)

Discipline: Dressage

Sarah Hepler is a lifelong equestrian who purchased her first OTTB at the age of 10. Since, she has taken numerous horses from the track, restarted them in a new career, and found them the perfect home of they did not stay with her. She also volunteers for Finger Lakes Finest, another nonprofit, that lists racehorses at Finger Lakes Racetrack that are ready to retire from racing and move into their next job. Sarah holds her Masters Degree in Public Administration, which placed an emphasis on nonprofit management, and owns her own business assisting older adults in applying for Medicaid. 

Board Treasurer

Allen is experienced financial and operational management consultant with experience as Controller, VP Finance, CFO, CEO and President. He has over thirty years of experience across a broad spectrum of industries which included professional service, manufacturing, contract manufacturing, distribution, software development, retail operations and insurance both on a domestic and international basis. In addition, he has ample non-profit experience, which has most recently focused on the Rotary Club.

Allen has extensive experience in small and mid-size high growth operations and turn-around situations; very hands on and very experienced

working with outside investors and Boards of Directors. 

Allen spends his spare time training his golden retriever and attending his children's and grandchildren's sporting events - including lacrosse games and horse shows.  

Board Secretary

Horses:  Chap, Gigi, King, Pim and Tilly — all OTTBs

Discipline: Show hunter (with some dabbling in eventing)
Lucinda started riding as a horse crazy 8 year old taking after school lessons, and she grew to become a long-time show hunter competitor at top A rated horse shows. She has also competed in eventing up through Novice level.  She grew up showing thoroughbreds, and is now devoted to bringing them back to prominence in the show hunter world. She is the proud owner of two of the nation's top TB show hunters, who have earned USHJA Horse of the Year awards, top placings in the Take 2 TB Hunter championships, and numerous tricolors at A rated horse shows. In 2011 she co-founded Finger Lakes Finest Thoroughbreds, a not-for profit that helps find post-racing homes and new careers for OTTBs. In her non-horse life she is a law professor at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, and she is also an acomplished appellate lawyer who has successfully argued cases in the US Supreme Court.  She has extensive experience on not-for profit Boards, ranging from arts and theater and public radio organizations, to a national women's reproductive health medical organization, to therapeutic riding and OTTB rehoming organizations. 

Fundraising Chair

Horse(s): Legs (JC: Pederson’s Courage)

Discipline: Dressage, Jumpers, & Foxhunting 

A Michigan native, Kat grew up riding in Metamora Hunt Country, usually on the back of a Thoroughbred or a rotten pony. As an adult, things haven’t changed much and you’ll still find Kat on the back of a Thoroughbred or rotten pony. She has been part of the horse industry professionally since she was 15 years old and as most professionals do, she has found herself wearing many hats throughout the years in an effort to support her horses. Her experiences as an exercise rider, barn manager, FEI groom, whipper-in, bodyworker, and rehabber have lead her to current roles as owner of Yellow Horse Performance as coach of the Woodbine chapter of the United States Pony Club. Kat and Aubrey hit it off at a TB Logic clinic years ago which resulted in Yellow Horse Performance sponsoring Aubrey and providing bodywork to all of the horses in Aubrey’s care while Kivu was still based in Georgia. Kat brings not only a wealth of horse knowledge and experience to the table for Stall 13 but she also comes with non-profit and fundraising experience in animal welfare, land conservation, disaster relief, and other humanitarian efforts. When she’s not in the barn or off trying to save the world, you can find Kat in the garden with her chickens or off the grid somewhere with her husband and dog.'