Cindy Reich - Biography

Cindy Reich was raised on a small family-owned Arabian horse breeding operation in Boulder, Colorado. She began showing when she was eight-years-old and showed in all competitive disciplines from equitation to halter, native costume to working cow horse and reining for over 25 years. Cindy graduated from Colorado State University with a degree in Bio-Agricultural Science. She worked as the breeding manger and artificial insemination technician for numerous breeding farms over the past 25 years including Paramont Farm, Lasma East, Varian Arabians, Aries Arabians, Fidelis International, BARA Farms, Wrigley Arabians, KEG Arabians and Wolf Springs Ranch. Cindy did post graduate work in equine reproduction at University College in Dublin, Ireland.

Some of the stallions Cindy has managed include Tornado, *Marsianin, *Aladdinn, *Eukaliptus, *Menes, Bey el Bay, Bay Abi, *Posjenik, Promotion, Wisdom, Cal-O-Bask, *Nilo, High Jack and Legacy of Gold among others. When Cindy was based in Holland for one year and Belgium for one year managing the breeding of *Menes, she took the opportunity to visit many European farms and shows. Currently, Cindy is managing all client mares and stallions for the Equine Reproduction Laboratory at Colorado State University.

Cindy has been a licensed judge in the Arabian division for 29 years and has judged Arabian national shows in the U.S., Canada, Sweden, Brazil, Australia and Venezuela.
Livestock in the 4-H program was Cindy’s first judging assignment when she was just nine-years-old. She judged livestock and horses through the 4-H program for 10 years. Later, she was on both the equine and livestock judging teams for Colorado State University. She was named High Senior Individual at the U.S. National Arabian Youth Judging contest twice. She was a member of National Champion Sr. Judging Team at the U.S. Arabian Nationals, and she coached two National Champion youth judging teams and one Reserve National Champion Youth judging team.