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Gayle Lampe
Gayle is currently an adjunct professor at William Woods
University in Fulton, Missouri after being
the saddle seat program director
there for 41 years. Gayle holds judges’ cards in nine equestrian disciplines
and has judged competitions in 43 states as well as Australia, Canada, Great
Britain and South Africa. She has also conducted clinics in 25 states and 3
foreign countries.
Gayle has judged the Grand National & World Championship
Morgan Horse Show ten times. Gayle
has
also judged the Northampton Morgan Horse Show twice. In 1996, Gayle coached the
U.S. Saddle Seat equitation team to a gold medal at the World Cup Competition,
held with Equitana in Louisville, KY. The outstanding Morgan rider, Georgia
Hunter, was on the team that year. Gayle has conducted numerous USEF Judges
clinics for Applicants, Morgans, National Show Horses, Saddlebreds and
Saddle
Seat Equitation.
In addition to teaching and judging, Gayle also has shown
Saddlebreds, Morgans and Arabians.
In 1979, Gayle showed Zephyr’s King Moro to
win the Ladies Park Horse Under Saddle Championship at the Grand National
Morgan Horse Show. In 2003, Gayle showed
her own horse, Callaway’s Born
to Win, to earn the Ladies Five-Gaited
Championship title at the World Championship Saddlebred
show held at the
Kentucky State Fair. Additionally, at the United Professional Horseman’s
Association American Royal National Championship Horse Show in Kansas City,
Gayle won the Five-Gaited Ladies National Championship on Born to Win in 2003,
2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010.
Gayle has been the recipient of the United Professional
Horseman’s Association Equitation Instructor
of the Year Award, the
Missouri-Kansas Horse Person of the Year award at the American Royal
Horse
Show, the “Distinguished Professor Award” at William Woods University, and the
Lurline Roth Sportsmanship Award at the American Saddlebred Horse Convention.
In 2007, she received the Audrey Gutridge Award at the World Championship
Saddle Horse Show held at the Kentucky State Fair. Also in 2007, The American Riding
Instructor’s Association awarded Gayle the title of “Master Instructor”. In 2015, Gayle was inducted into the
“Missouri Sports Hall of Fame”. Gayle
was the first “horse” person ever to receive this honor other than one jockey
and one rodeo rider. In 2024 Gayle was honored with “The Settler’s Award” from
the Kingdom of Callaway.
In 1996, Gayle authored the book “Riding for Success, Both In
and Out of the Show Ring” and in
2013, the revised edition of this book was
printed. In her spare time, Gayle enjoys walking, planting trees, feeding ducks
and playing ping-pong. She even managed
to win a Gold Medal at the 2000 Missouri Show Me Games in the Women’s single
Table Tennis the same day she coached the
first-place winner in Academy
equitation at the Boone County Fair. The newest addition to Gayle’s
life is
Porchy, a little black feral cat, who moved in with Gayle in 2024 during a snow
storm.
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