Misdee Wrigley Miller, winner of two American Saddlebred world horse championship titles and the first rider to win the three-gaited “grand slam,” as well as a Team USA member at the 2014 World Equestrian Games in combined driving, spoke at the University of Kentucky (UK) Ag Equine Programs’ Distinguished Industry Lecture Series Feb. 9 in the Gluck Equine Research Center’s auditorium on the UK campus.

Nearly 100 people turned out to hear the talk sponsored by Hagyard Equine Medical Institute.

Wrigley Miller is a fourth generation horsewoman who owns and operates Hillcroft Farm with her husband in Paris, Kentucky, as well as a farm in Sarasota, Florida, where they raise American Saddlebred and Thoroughbred horses.

In addition to her accomplishments in the Saddlebred world, including being named a United States Equestrian Federation Equestrian of Honor in 2015, Wrigley Miller has competed in the top echelons of the sport of combined driving. In 2014, she was part of a team representing the United States in the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games in Normandy, France, where the U.S. team finished fourth