ANNA JANE WHITE-MULLIN began riding when she was five years old, and was “discovered” by George Morris when she was eleven years old. Competing in major horse shows on the East Coast, Ms. White-Mullin won junior hunter and equitation championships at many noteworthy shows, including Ox Ridge, Fairfield, North Shore, Piping Rock, Harrisburg, Washington, Madison Square Garden, and the Florida Circuit shows. In 1971, coached by Ronnie Mutch, she won the Alfred B. Maclay Finals on her horse, Rivet, and was awarded a gold medal for winning twenty USET classes.After graduating from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, Ms. White-Mullin continued her equestrian activities as a Registered (Big “R”) judge in the hunter, hunter seat equitation, and jumper divisions. In 1986, she was a panelist at the USEF’s Hunter Seat Equitation Judges Clinic in San Francisco, presenting a slide show based on her first book, Judging Hunters and Hunter Seat Equitation. Subsequently, these slides were added to the permanent files of the USEF. She is also the author of Winning: A Training and Showing Guide for Hunter Seat Riders and The Complete Guide to Hunter Seat Training, Showing, and Judging. Ms. White-Mullin has served as a judge, clinician, and lecturer throughout North America. She and her husband live in Gadsden, Alabama, on their farm, Bellerophon.
Anna Jane White, age 10, on “Easter”
Anna Jane White, age 13, on “Dino” at Madison Square Garden
Anna Jane White, age 15, on “White Night” at the Monmouth Horse Show( NJ)
Anna Jane White on “Rivet” in the 1971 Maclay Finals at Madison Square Garden, N.Y.
Anna Jane White on “Rivet” over the last jump in the final round of the 1971 Maclay Finals (Photo by Budd)
Anna Jane White and “Rivet” during the awards ceremony for the 1971 Maclay Finals in Madison Square Garden, NY (Photo by Budd)
Bronze, Silver, and Gold Medals won by Anna Jane White for 5, 10, and 20 wins, respectively, in United States Equestrian Team equitation classes (now known as the USEF Talent Search classes)
Anna Jane White with (from left) her mother, Ida White, coach, George Morris, and father, A.O. White, Jr., in front of “the old Madison Square Garden” in 1967
George Morris giving a clinic at Patsy Timmons’ farm in Dunwoody, GA, in 1968
Anna Jane White with coach, Ronnie Mutch, at the 1971 Maclay Finals in Madison Square Garden
“Rivet” on the cover of “The Chronicle of the Horse” in August, 1971.
Pastel portrait of “Rivet” by Sandra Etherington Tucker, 1971.
Anna Jane White jumping “Rivet” without stirrups in an equitation class at the Ox Ridge Horse Show, 1970.
Anna Jane White riding “Rivet” in a Junior Hunter Class on an outside course, 1970.
Anna Jane White riding “Rivet” in a U.S.E.T. Equitation Class, 1970.
Anna Jane White and “Rivet” at the North Shore Horse Show, 1970.
Anna Jane White on “Malmud” over the Big Drop at the Blue Ridge Pony Club Two-Day Event in October, 1975.
