Elisabeth Goth

Elisabeth Goth (born 1964/1965) is an American horse breeder, horse exhibitor, and businesswoman. She owns Elisabeth Goth, LLC in Kentucky and raises, shows and sells American Saddlebreds. She has won multiple awards and Championships in the horse industry. She is the vice president of the United States Equestrian Federation.

Early life and family Goth was born in 1964 or 1965 to Bettina Bancroft and Michael Goth. She had a younger brother named Michael who died at a young age, making her an only child. When her mother died in 1996, she inherited 800,000 shares of stock in Dow Jones, the company that publishes The Wall Street Journal. The company was owned by the Bancroft family for 105 years before they sold it to Rupert Murdoch in 2007. Goth was one of the Bancroft family members who supported selling Dow Jones, reasoning that the family had neglected the company for years and it would do better under new management.

Goth is married to a businessman named Chelberg, who works part time in Prague. She lives in Lebanon, Kentucky.

Horses Goth was involved with horses from a young age and considered them a constant in her life, since her parents' relationship was often strained, before they ultimately divorced, and they moved across the United States multiple times.

In 2000, Goth was awarded the Lurline Roth Sportsmanship Award.

In 2007, Goth sponsored the Junior Exhibitor Driving Challenge in the American Royal Horse Show. The purpose of challenge was to promote fine harness driving among youth. In 2012 she was American Saddlebred Horse Association (ASHA) Breeder of the Year. In 2016, Goth won the Reserve Five-Gaited World's Grand Championship on the mare Fox Grape's The Tiger Lily.

In the same year, Goth won two titles in the World's Championship Horse Show. Riding her previous reserve winner Fox Grape's The Tiger Lily, she won Amateur Five-Gaited World's Champion of Champions, while driving Here Comes the Boom she took the Fine Harness World's Grand Championship. Goth is the vice president of the United States Equestrian Federation and is on the board of the American Saddlebred Horse Association.