ShowBiz Feature
Coming Full Circle
by Kathy Hobstetter
t
he picturesque San Francisco area holds one of the best kept secrets of our
sport. Nestled in Marin County near the small town of Nicasio, population 200,
is Windfield Station, the beautiful horse farm and home of Kilham Farm training
stables. The owner, head trainer, barn manager and chief cook and bottle washer
is a fascinating lady named Elizabeth Kilham, Lumpkin/Lumpy for short. A fixture on the
California show jumping scene for decades, Lumpy is known mostly for her hard work,
drive to make things better and the tenacity that has served her well through the years.
Born in Phoenix, Arizona to Alfred Kilham and his wife, Betty, the very name she is
famous for, “Lumpy”, is an indication of how her life has traveled. Her parents could not
agree on a name and her mother insisted on Virginia Ann, which finally her father just
stopped talking about. On baptism day, without telling her mother, her father had her
name announced as Elizabeth Chandler which became her ‘God given’ name. Refusing to
acknowledge the new name, her mother immediately put “Lumpkin” to the new baby and
that is what she has always been called.
Over the years, people have shortened it to Lumpy, but she says, “I can just about
tell you how long specific people have known me. People who have been friends for a
long time are comfortable with Lumpy but new people I meet try to call me Elizabeth
or just avoid a name all together. I like it and I certainly am used to it after all this
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