About
Us
Melyni
showing her
Knabstrupper mare, Cita
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Dr.
Melyni Worth,
Ph. D. P.A.S.
Originally from Great Britain, by way of Kenya, Dr. Worth
has a Bachelors degree in Agricultural Biochemistry from Newcastle
University, received a Masters in Equine Nutrition from University
College of Wales (Aberystwyth) and a Ph.D in Equine Nutrition
and Exercise Physiology from VPI & SU (Virginia Tech).
Melyni
holds a British Horse Society Assistant Instructors certification
(BHSAI), and an International Trainers Licence (II) from the
European Union, and has trained horses and taught riders for
28 years. She has taught riding and horse management programs
at college level as well as being a life-time rider and competitor.
Melyni trains and rides (sometimes competitively) in Eventing,
Dressage, Hunters and Jumpers. She has also worked in Side-saddle
and Combined Driving.
She does some breeding of sport horses but specializes in
the preparation (including training) of horse and rider for
athletic endeavor. Based in Stuarts Draft, Virginia, Melyni
works as a consultant and writer in equine nutrition and exercise
physiology.

Meg
and Tyler
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Meg
Jones
Originally from Springfield, IL, Meg moved to Virginia at
twelve and grew up riding pony hunters. She has a Bachelors
degree in Animal Science from Virginia Tech, where she and
Melyni first met and were roommates. Meg then spent 12 years
in the banking world before joining Foxden Equine full time
in 2000 as the office manager and bookkeeper.
She is an avid rider and competitor has a Danish/TB mare by
Aslan named Savoir Faire, who competes in Dressage and Amateur
Adult Hunters, and Savvy's son by Shine, Tyler. Meg, her husband
Jeff and three Shelties, Lily, Daisy and Love, live in Stuarts
Draft, Virginia.