cynthia hampton

FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT

Cynthia Hampton began riding as a child competing in the hunters, jumpers, equitation and eventing. In 1968 she won the Oregon Hunt Seat Championship as a junior rider. She attended Stanford University as an advanced placement student in French Literature, where she earned Dean’s List status. She graduated with a bachelor’s in communications, specializing in journalism and documentary film making. She minored in French Literature. She lived in Paris for twenty years, from 1977 to 1997 where she worked as a fashion photographer. She showed jumpers in the Ile-de-France with her trainer, Christophe Escande, a talented horseman who excelled in developing young jumpers.

From 1997-2008 she competed in show jumping on the West Coast (California, Oregon, Washington and Spruce Meadows). Now she divides her time between Wellington, Florida and Lexington, Kentucky. 

Her farm Hampton Farms, LLC was incorporated in 2008.

In 2015, Cynthia founded the nonprofit organization Classic Champions with the goal to implement European practices for the development of young jumper horses in North America.