About Us

Emily Hufford: Emily Hufford is a twenty-year-old junior who will be starting Cal State University, Northridge in the fall of 2006. She spent two years at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, two miles away from Churchill Downs. She has worked for trainers Henry Moreno, Matt Chew, and Dallas Stewart, Ryan Nemann, and Brad Cox. She has been involved in horse racing since the age of 10. Her favorite racehorses include Cavonnier, Silver Charm, Truckle Feature, Giacomo, Greater Good, Officer, Malameeze, and the entire Breezy Stories family. Her favorite Standardbred is Scarlet Knight.

On the front side, she spent a summer working at Del Mar in California, and spent the fall of 2005 working in Racing Information at Churchill Downs.

Emily's favorite pasttimes include surfing the web, talking on the phone, and taking as many pictures as she can. She has wanted to help bring new fans into racing since she was a younger and someday wants to be the editor of the California Thoroughbred Magazine and the head of the California Horse Racing Board.

Amelia Baldree: Amelia Baldree is a twenty-one-year-old senior at University of Louisville in Kentucky, majoring in Equine Business and minoring in Communications. She has been a tour guide at the Kentucky Derby Museum and a hotwalker on the backside of Churchill Downs. Last year she hotwalked for Steve Margolis (trainer of 2003 Breeder's Cup Sprint winner Cajun Beat). She has worked for Churchill Downs in Simulcast Productions, at Ellis Park, Keeneland, and at Churchill Downs in the Racing Office.

Her favorite racehorses are Lemon Drop Kid, Came Home, Dollar Bill, Cajun Beat, Imperialism and Afleet Alex. Her favorite personal horses are Starlit Lake and Wickedly Wise. Amelia's extracurriculars include University of Louisville Thoroughbred Racing Club and Women's Polo Team. She hopes to work for a Thoroughbred racing publication through writing, photography or marketing. Visit her website at www.lemondropchick.com. Email Amelia.

Amanda Saunders: Amanda Saunders is a twenty-two-year-old college student in Virginia, majoring in Information Systems And Technology and minoring in Photography and Journalism. While karate, listening to music, writing, and beading take up most of her time, her passion is Thoroughbred racing. Her favorite horse is Holy Bull, with Jenna's Beach Boy a close second. In 2004 Amanda attended her first Kentucky Derby after a thrilling trip to the 2003 Breeders' Cup, and travels to racetracks in Maryland and Virginia most weekends.

Laura Ferguson: Racing fan from birth, TurfAngels.com contributor Laura Ferguson finally realized a lifelong dream when she purchased 2 1/2% (aka "the nose) of Racing Heart, a 2 year old daughter of Fusaichi Pegasus. She followed that up with 2 1/2% of Hudson Valley, half-sister to Buy the Sport. Both fillies are in training with Team Valor at Saratoga, with Racing Heart set to debut in the next few weeks. Away from the track, Laura is an attorney for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, having moved there from New Jersey supposedly for a law school scholarship, but really to live closer to thoroughbred farms and thoroughbred racing (although Monmouth still rocks!).

Angela Stange: Angela is a twenty-two year old Equine Business Certificate student at the University of Louisville, from upstate New York. She has earned a degree in Thoroughbred Management A.A.S from SUNY Cobleskill, as well as a B.S. in Equine Business from Salem International University.

She became interested in horse racing around the age of nine, and began working with Thoroughbreds her freshman year at Cobleskill. In the summer of 2002, she hot walked for Bill Mott, and then in December of the same year worked the auction at Timonium Maryland for McMahon Farms. Besides working with racehorses, she has retrained an off-the-track Throughbred while attending Salem International.

Her favorite current runners include almost any Bill Mott trained horse, as well as Lisaized, Scrappy T, Leave Me Alone, Lost In the Fog, Henny Hughes, and Wonder Again just to name a few. She is currently not working in the industry, but plans to pursue an internship this summer at a track in the racing offices.

Dave Shields: Dave Shields has been working with art and design since "I could hold a crayon or pencil." He's been designing for the web off and on for thirteen years and has taken classes in print production and graphic design. He is new to the racing scene, but finds the horse to be a fascinating animal. He was able to attend several major racing events in 2003, including the Breeders' Cup and California Cup. He picked Giacomo to win the 2005 Kentucky Derby early in 2004, and his faith was rewarded when the gray colt really did win the Roses. He also says he likes Rock Hard Ten, Katdogawn, Sweet Catomine, Nothing to Lose, and Zippy Chippy. He owns a web design company called Ekawa Design.

Emily Mitchell: Emily Mitchell is a seventeen-year-old at James F. Byrnes High School in South Carolina, unfortunately miles and miles away from any racetrack. She will be attending Clemson University in the fall of 2005 with plans in majoring in Equine Business. Her favorite racehorses include Six Perfections, Charismatic, Pulpit, Unbridled, Banks Hill, High Chaparral, and Smok'n Frolic. You could probably find Emily either working as Editor-in-Chief of her high school newspaper, creating and designing web pages, or playing with any of her assortment of animals at home. The first race she ever saw (on TV) was in 1997 when Silver Charm won the Derby and then came so close to winning the Triple Crown; and she has been hooked ever since.