Welcome to our legacy family the Huffton's. The stable was originally started by Nathan and Anna Huffton. They have long since retired and left the care of the stable in the hands of their two sons, Dustin and Brandon Huffton. Silver Maple has changed a good deal from it's early days, it no longer is just an Akhal-Teke stud. Silver Maple Equestrian offers not only Akhal-Tekes but Nez Perce, Kathiawari, Lokai and Universal Tori.... not to mention a few other exotic breeds that the staff compete with. Listed below are the current Huffton's that live at SME and their families.
Dustin and Heidi Huffton
Dustin, the oldest son of Nathan and Anna, runs the broodmare stables and over sees the stud barn next door. A life-long competitor, Dustin retired to devote more time to his family.
Heidi, Dustin's wife, is an accomplished artist. She fell in love with the horses after meeting Dustin and can be found showing some of the young stock in halter shows and joining the rest of the family in competitive endurance rides. |
Brandon and Ruth Huffton
Brandon ever the dreamer and tinker in the family was expected to go off into the world, but after graduating from the School of Peace and Love Brandon returned to Silver Maple Equestrian to help Dustin. Brandon is one of our main eventing and show jumping competitors. He is also the proud father of a 7 year old daughter.
Ruth came into Silver Maple as a trainer and handler for the Akhal-Teke studs. It was not much of a stretch for her to train Brandon and they have been happily married for 15 years. Even as a mother, Ruth could not be stopped from competing with our stallions and can be seen in a wide variety of shows.... always with the moodiest of horses. |
Dustin and Heidi's Original Broodmare Stable. This barn/house has since been torn down and turned into several pastures for the broodmares and retired horses to enjoy.
The three children of Dustin and Heidi Huffton
Tracy Huffton
Currently runs our Lokai and Indian breed stable.
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Frank Huffton
Frank and his wife Corinna run both the Nez Perce mare stable and our rare exotic endurance stable.
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Nathan Huffton II
Nathan runs one of our competition stables with his string of dressage and eventing horses.
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Other Staff of Silver Maple Equestrian
Karla Cooper
Karla runs the only warmblood stable at SME. She competes with our Trakehners in a variety of disciplines.
Emily Hackett
Emily is currently helping out with the Universal and Sport Tori stables. She has also taken over the training of our second Sport Tori colt, Last Edition.
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Gina St.John
Gina runs our Universal Tori stable and competes with the horses in combined driving, team driving and draft horse pulling competitions.
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Pete Hodges
Pete runs our Nez Perce stud. Every once in awhile he will be seen competing with our stallions in an in-hand show or a native demonstration. Pete does not enjoy the limelight though, so this is rare.
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Jockeys
Joanne Long
Jose Nieves
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Hector Lopez
Katalin Tompson
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Victor Hernandez
Peter Dionne
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