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About
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Name: Alexandra M. Liss
Birthday: Oct. 4, 1984
College: UGA
Major: Animal Science, Equine Management Emphasis
First Ride: Age 4
Favorite Discipline: Equitation
Favorite Local Trainers: Anne Kenan,
Kat Demas-Mulkey, Ginny
Smith
Favorite Food: Sushi
Favorite Quote: A rider’s biggest compliment is when someone
that doesn’t know much about riding says “it looks like you
aren’t doing anything!”
E-mail:
HunterValleyHorses@gmail.com
Phone: 404-449-5678 |
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Biography
Alex Liss started riding as a child with Roger
Brown at Brownwood Farm. He and a few other
instructors at the farm taught a great base and
gave every opportunity to learn the basics of
horse care. From there, Alex went on to ride
sale horses and lease ponies and horses with
Peggy Weldon who since relocated to the
Nashville area. Peggy sold Alex her first horse,
Captain who had been doing the Mini-Prix jumpers
with Kirk Kamish. Captain took Alex quickly from
the hunter ring to the big jumpers with local
trainer Patty McGarty, and then went to Athens
with Alex for an education at UGA. While in
Athens, Alex rode with Ginny Smith and competed
on UGA's IHSA Equestrian Team. It was on the
team that she was introduced to the principles
of the American System of Forward Riding, and a
holistic approach to horse care and training. It
was the amazing changes seen in Captain due to
the huge difference in practical theory that
really turned Alex on to this lesser known,
better system of riding and training. During her
college years, Alex also catch rode for Kathy
Jones of Spring Break Farm, broke 2 small Welsh
ponies, and one QH mare, taught lessons and
trained for a few boarders where Captain was
kept, and interned as the head instructor and
trainer at Seven Hills Farm in Rome, GA. Out of
college, with a B.S. Animal Science and an
emphasis in Equine Management, Alex lived for a
month on a horse sales farm in Tryon, NC where
she enjoyed schooling sales horses until a
closer-to-home job was offered to her by Kristie
Dimarakis of Stonegate Farm. Alex worked for
Stonegate teaching the non-boarder lesson
program and coaching the Northview High and
Stonegate High and Middle school IEA teams until
spring 2008 when she was offered a position
coaching at In Your Dreams Farm. In June of
2008, after having had a sampling of all sorts
of different business models, Alex incorporated
Hunter Valley Farms and began her own small
business in NE Cumming, when mentor and coach
Anne Kenan (www.annekenan.com) walked into her
life and helped put her on an even better track
conditioning the horses and developing the
riders. After two years of semi-successfully
trying to convince the Atlantans to drive out to
Cumming, Alex found an unbelievable property in
Milton (right where Roswell, Alpharetta, and
Milton connect) for her business. She now trains
horses and teaches lessons primarily at this
location, while still freelancing to reach
clients in Cumming. Alex has also studied riding
abroad at the Huntley School of Equitation
(Summers 2003-2008) and Hartpury College (1 week
2003) in England, and attended clinics with
Olympic rider Debi Connor.
Alex Liss
404-449-5678
HunterValleyHorses@gmail.com
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