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Piper and Traci Brooks speak with Georgy Maskrey-Segesman and Mavis Spencer about their Nation's Cup experience and how they are chasing big goals together. Brought to you by Taylor, Harris Insurance Services.

• Host: Piper Klemm, publisher of The Plaid Horse and Traci Brooks 
• Guest: Georgy Maskrey-Segesman is the owner and operator of Whitethorne LLC, a unique business model that develops equitation horses and show jumpers while mentoring and sponsoring ambitious and motivated riders. Georgy competed internationally up to the 1.50m Grand Prixs and also has a solid foundation in dressage. With this experience, she has successfully coached riders up to the 1.60m and to top placings in both national and regional medal finals. Georgy feels very strongly about education within the sport and hosts multiple clinics at her farm throughout the year and has also created and sponsors multiple equitation events, such as “The American Tradition of Excellence Equitation Challenge” held at Blenheim in San Juan Capistrano, California.  
• Guest: Getting a solid start in California, Mavis Spencer spent her formative junior years training with Dick Carvin and Susie Schroer at Meadow Grove. Mavis jumped at the chance to work with top show jumpers in order to expand her knowledge and involvement in the sport, spending six years, mostly on the ground, managing horses for top professionals such as Kent Farrington, Darragh Kenny and Lorenzo de Luca. Mavis was given the opportunity to jump back into the saddle in the fall of 2014 and has since accumulated numerous wins on several mounts at the FEI level, including the U25, World Cup qualifying classes and represented the U.S. Jumping Team at the FEI Jumping Nations Cup in Spain and Portugal in the fall of 2022. 
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