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Meet Your
2017 National
Dressage Judge!
Karen Winn grew up riding hunters in Princeton, New Jersey. She dis-
covered dressage and eventing while in college at the University of Mas-
sachusetts, and was hooked right away. Upon graduation with a degree
in Animal Science, she moved to Lexington, Kentucky, where she taught
riding at the University of Kentucky and Midway College. She was in-
volved in many aspects of the Thoroughbred horse business in Lexington,
but maintained her sport horse world connection while showing in event-
ing and upper level dressage, and earning her USDF Bronze and Silver
medals. Karen returned to the University of Kentucky for a second degree
in Accounting, and has since worked at the American Hanoverian Soci-
ety, the US Pony Clubs, and the American Saddlebred Horse Association.
She currently works as the accountant for the Kentucky Horse Park Foun-
dation. Karen is a “R” Dressage Judge, and an FEI ***/**** Eventing
Judge; she was one of the first licensed Western Dressage judges, and also
is an Eventing Technical Delegate and FEI Eventing Chief Steward. She
occasionally shows her homebred Thoroughbred horse in dressage and
eventing, and her Black and Tan Coonhounds in conformation, agility,
and obedience.