Meghan Roider Humphreys
ASSISTANT TRAINER
Meghan Roider Humphreys grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where she started riding at the age of six. She spent her childhood at the barn developing a love for horses and learning everything she could about the hunter/jumper discipline. During her junior years, she competed regularly around Louisiana and Mississippi. She trained and sold several horses as a teenager and catch rode everything she had the chance to. If she was unable to compete herself, Meghan still would tag along to every horse show to groom and gain experience. Meghan started working for the LSU Horse Unit when she was 15 years old and worked there for seven years. She learned a lot from her boss, Randy Wright, about treating, medicating, giving IV and IM shots, and other horse husbandry.
Meghan attended LSU, where she studied business and minored in animal science. While in college, she continued to compete and started teaching beginner lessons at MMS Show Stables. After graduating, she was selected to be a working student at Silver Fox Farms in Wimberley, Texas for the summer. She was offered a job as assistant trainer there, which gave her many opportunities to expand her knowledge on breaking and training young horses, teaching lessons of higher levels, and competing on a much bigger scale. Meghan then moved to St. Louis, Missouri to work for Kennedy Farms, where she competed at venues such as Wellington and Vermont, and also took multiple clients to both schooling and A rated horse shows. While at Kennedy Farms, she did many things around the barn including putting horses on the VibePlate, which encouraged her to purchase her own Theraplate that she has now.
Wanting to be closer to home, Meghan moved to Mississippi to be the assistant trainer at Winterview Farm. She loves teaching lessons of all levels, taking clients to horse shows, and competing on young, green horses. Meghan and her husband, Daniel, attend the Lebanon Presbyterian Church every Sunday, when Meghan isn’t away at a horse show. Daniel can be found around the barn or at shows helping out in whatever way he can.
Brittany Short
ASSISTANT TRAINER
Brittany Short is from St. Louis, Missouri where she started taking lessons when she was 8 years old. She catch rode horses and helped with training at multiple barns in the area.
She then attended William Woods University and graduated in 2018 with a degree in Equine Administration, a minor in Business, and a minor in Psychology. While in school she rode 6-8 horses per day and showed multiple horses throughout the years. She also apprenticed with both the veterinarian and farrier on campus. Throughout her 4 years she was a member of the WWU Hunter/Jumper Show Team and showed at A rated shows in Tulsa, Oklahoma as well as at the National Equestrian Center in Missouri.
During college, Britt worked as a working student at Mechlin Farms and went to horseshows with the farm as a show groom. The next year she worked as an assistant trainer at Gallop Equestrian where she managed the barn, ran camps, trained horses, and taught lessons.
After graduating, Britt became an assistant trainer & barn manager at Kennedy Farms where she trained horses, ran the lesson program, ran camps, coached at shows, and managed daily tasks for running the stable. She learned how to break out and train many green show horses and ponies. She travelled with the barn to A rated shows in Vermont and at WEC. Britt would also take 10-20 riders to local schooling shows.
Brittany married her husband, Kemp, on June 19th, 2021 and they moved to Virginia where she became an assistant trainer & barn manager at Riverfront Riding Center. There she taught lessons, managed the barns, ran the training and sales program, was in charge of summer camp, and coached at shows. She also coached the IEA team and the CNU IHSA team.
While working at Kennedy Farms and Mechlin Farms she worked with many different therapy systems including a MagnaWave, a VibePlate, and an electronic Hot Walker. She is now a certified practitioner through PEMF Complete to do body work on horses and she does accupressure as well.
At Kennedy Farms Brittany worked a lot with the selling and leasing of horses and ponies. She now has her own lease pony, “the Sweet Life,” that she bought young, trained, and now leases across the country. He has taken multiple kids to their first A rated shows and is currently used and shown in a prestigious barn in Bridgehampton, NY. Her childhood pony, “Harry Potter,” has been leased out all over the country, won many top ribbons at shows, and most recently brought a rider from learning to canter to winning at Short Stirrup at A Rated Shows in just a year! Potter is now a part of the lesson program at Winterview.
Throughout the years Brittany has restarted and trained many OTTBs, green warmbloods, and young ponies to become successful in the show ring. She has mainly shown hunters, but has also shown in the equitation and jumper rings.
She is extremely excited to be at Winterview Farms where she can continue to learn and grow with an amazing team!
Kim Ray
EQUINE CARE MANAGER
Kim Ray was born and raised in Ridgeland, Mississippi. She grew up trail riding horses and playing softball, attended Madison Ridgeland Highschool and Hinds Community College. Kim worked as a Veterinary Technician at Reservoir Animal Hospital for 28 years during which time her daughter, Taylor, started riding at Winterview as a 5 year old.
Married for 35 years to Nickey Ray, she is the proud mother of Taylor and Hunter and welcomed her first grandchild, Ryder, In March of 2020. Upon retiring from Reservoir Animal Hospital, we hired her full time as Equine Care Manager. She is busy every day watching the horses diets, checking for injuries, thrown shoes, coordinating farrier, vet and chiropractor visits as well as packing us up for horse shows and sending us down the road. She wears many hats each day and is always busy taking care of the horses, children and clients.
