The business has recently relocated from North Carolina to Kansas. Hunter Hill specializes in providing high quality care of horses boarded on the farm. Additionally, the farm offers training of horses and riders. The farm is owned and operated by Ashley Duda, a USEF professional and KHJA board member who has been involved in the industry for 15 years. Ashley Duda is originally from the east coast
, but has recently moved back to Manhattan, KS. She is committed to teaching the forward system of riding and is passionate about teaching good equitation as a way to develop the most functional riders. She has experience putting horses under saddle and advancing them through the divisions in both the hunters and the jumpers. Ashley has a good eye and can focus on what both horse and rider need to improve themselves. Her teaching style is simple and she breaks down concepts in a way that can be easily understood and applied. While Ashley enjoys improving horse and rider over the jumps, she knows that a good jump comes from good flatwork. Her lessons incorporate a great deal of flatwork and apply the balance, straightness, and tempo learned on the flat to the jumping. During her career, she has coached at Kansas State University (2005-2009) and St. Andrews University (2009-2012). She coached both teams to National Championship appearances while also coaching individual riders to multiple championships at rated shows. In 2011, Ashley's riders finished first and second in the North Carolina Hunter Jumper Association Adult Medal Finals. As a junior rider, Ashley showed throughout the east coast in the Junior Hunter and Children’s Jumper divisions. Ashley then attended Virginia Tech where she competed for the Hokies in the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association and Intercollegiate Dressage Association. She qualified for both the IHSA National Championship Horse Show and IDA National Championship Horse Show in 2004 and also represented the United States in two International Student Riding Competitions.
